1641

1641 (MDCXLI) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday, according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 6 January: the Parliament of Quillín between Mapuches (“araucanos”) and Spanish is held in Chile.
• February 5: an earthquake of 6.8 destroys the Iranian city of Tabriz leaving a balance of 30,000 dead.
• 16 January: The Catalan republic is proclaimed to attempt to annex France.
• March 11: In the Rock of Mbororé (present-day Argentina), the Guaraní Indians living in the Jesuit missions beat the bandeirantes (Portuguese slaves after the separation of Portugal from Spain) in the battle of Mbororé.
• Probationist conspiracy in Andalusia, led by the Duke of Medina Sidonia and the Marquis of Ayamonte, against the policy of the Count-duke of Olivares (valid of Felipe IV).
• Robert Boyle visits Italy.
• The French genealogist Pierre D’Hozier (1592-1660) is appointed king of main weapons of the Jarretera.
• 13 April: In Spain, the religious Francisca of Oviedo entered a statue of the Blessed Christ of Victory to the village of Serradilla (Cáceres).
• June 11: A 6.5 earthquake destroys the Venezuelan city of Caracas.

Art and literature

• In Venice, Monteverdi estrena Il ritorno d'Ulisse in homeland.

Births

• February 3: Cristián Alberto de Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (f. 1695).
• 5 May: Cipriano Barace, Jesuit missionary and martyr (f. 1702).
• May: Juan Núñez de la Peña, a Spanish scholar and historian.
• September: Nehemiah Grew, British physician and botanist.
• Giovanni Battista Contini, Italian architect of the Baroque.
• Bonne de Pons, Marquise of French aristocrat Heudicourt of the Versailles court.

Deaths

• January 3: Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (n. 1618).
• 9 December: Antoon van Dyck, a Belgian painter (n. 1599).