1643

events

politics and world happening

• 24. November - battle with Tuttlingen
• 12. December - Swedish-Danish war: Swedish troops under instruction Lennart Torstenssons surprise Denmark.

• Evangelista Torricelli and Otto von Guericke prove the existence of the static pressure (print). Torricelli uses a mercury bath, Guericke works with vacuum hemispheres
• Abel Tasman discovers the Tonga islands
• Fiji. Discovery by the Dutch sailor Abel Tasman

born

• 4. January (25. December 1642 A. Pc.): Isaac Newton, British scientist († 1727)
• 13. February: Jacobus bag man, Evangelist theologian († 1718)
• 25. March: Louis Moréri, French Enzyklopädist († 1680)
• 3. April: Karl V. (Lorraine)
• 21. August: Alfons VI., King of Portugal from the house Braganza († 1682)
• 22. November: René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French discoverer († 1687)
• 26. November: Jean Chardin, French explorers († 1713)

• Marx Augustin, Bänkelsänger, Sackpfeifer and bar hoar frost poet († 1685)

died

• 1. March: Girolamo Frescobaldi, important baroque composer and organist (* 1583)
• 20. April: Christoph Demantius, German composer (* 1567)
• 14. May: Ludwig XIII. (France), king of France from 1610 to 1643 (* 1601)
• 3. November: Paul Guldin, was an astronomer and professor for mathematics in Grazand Vienna (* 1577)
• 14. November: George Aribert of notion Dessau, anhaltinischer regent (* 1606)
• 29. November: Tobias Adami, yard advice (* 1581)