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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s Years: 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 - 1641 - 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles I's absolutist tendencies. The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan. Portugal is ousted from Malacca by the Dutch. Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is first performed. Moses Amyraut's De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion is published. Births Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath Deaths May 12 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 - 1641 - 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646
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