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1640 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1640th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 640th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1640, the ...
April 13 – The Short Parliament assembles, as King Charles I of England attempts to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars.; May 5 – The Short Parliament is dissolved.; May 11/12 Following the Short Parliament's dissolution, an angry and armed mob attacked Lambeth Palace in the hope of killing the unpopular Archbishop, William Laud.
1640 England – The Long Parliament summoned. 1642 England – English Civil War begins (see Timeline of the English Civil War) 1652 England – Tea arrives in Britain; 1666 England 1688 England – The Glorious Revolution replaces James II with William III
Events from the year 1640 in England. Incumbents. Monarch – Charles I; Events. 5 January – Parliament fixes a quorum of 40 for its proceedings to be transacted. [1]
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, [1] King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640.
From 1630 through 1640, approximately 20,000 Puritans emigrated to New England in a Great Migration. [20] In 1642, after the English Civil War began, a sixth of the male colonists returned to England to fight for Parliament, and many stayed, since Oliver Cromwell was himself a Puritan. [ 21 ]
1640: King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots. 1640–1668: The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union. 1640: Torture is outlawed in England. 1641: The Irish Rebellion. 1641: René Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy.
1640 – French and Iroquois Wars escalate to full warfare. 1640 – Virginia courts sentence John Punch a black indentured servant to life of servitude for running away from an abusive plantation owner Hugh Gwyn. 1642 – Beginning of the English Civil War. Montreal founded. 1643 – New England Confederation created.