Explore 238 historical events from 1640–1649.
Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark and Norway was the eldest daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Electress of Saxony from 1680 to 16…
Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1717)
Joseph Dudley was a colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the son of one of its founders. He had a leading role in the administration of the …
Joseph Dudley, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (died 1720)
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (born 1581)
Canonicus was a chief of the Narragansett people. He was wary of the colonial settlers, but he ultimately befriended Roger Williams and other settlers.
Canonicus, Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett (born 1565)
Leonard Calvert was an English-born colonial administrator who served as the first proprietary governor of Maryland from 1634 to 1647. He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st …
Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (born 1606)
Thomas Farnaby was an English schoolmaster and scholar. He operated a successful school in the Cripplegate ward of London and enjoyed great success with his annotations of classic …
Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (born 1575)
Thomas Hooker was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was…
Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut (born 1586)
Tommaso Aniello, popularly known by the contracted name of Masaniello, was an Italian fisherman, who led the Neapolitan Revolt of 1647 against the rule of Habsburg Spain in the Kin…
Masaniello, Italian rebel (born 1622)
Nicholas Stone was an English sculptor and architect. In 1619 he was appointed master-mason to James I, and in 1626 to Charles I.
Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born 1586)
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus was a Danish astronomer.
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and mathematician (born 1562)
Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for h…
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (born 1608)
Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Inval…
Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect (probable; (died 1708)
Charles Plumier was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. He …
Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (died 1704)
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia or Elena Lucrezia Corner, also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first wo…
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1684)
Johann Theile was a German composer of the Baroque era, famous for the opera Adam und Eva, Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch, first performed in Hamburg on 2 Janu…
Johann Theile, German organist and composer (died 1724)
John Flamsteed was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atl…
John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (died 1719)
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de Grignan, was a French aristocrat, remembered for the letters that her mother, Madame de Sévigné, wrote to her.
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French noblewoman (died 1705)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calcul…
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)
Lieutenant général des armées navales Jean-Baptiste du Casse was a French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of Saint…
Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer (died 1715)
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was a British painter of German origin. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court paint…
Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (died 1723)
Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, Gaelic-Irish Lord, died 29 June 1646.
Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, Gaelic-Irish Lord
Alexander Henderson was a Scottish theologian, and an important ecclesiastical statesman of his period. He is considered the second founder of the Reformed Church in Scotland. He w…
Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian and academic (born 1583)
János Bánfihunyadi, better known by his Latinized name Johannes Banfi Hunyades or his pseudonym Hans Hungar, was a Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. He emigrated to En…
Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (born 1576)
Sir Francis Windebank was an English politician who was Secretary of State under Charles I.
Francis Windebank, English statesman (born 1582)