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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s Years: 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 - 1642 - 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 Events January 4: Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. Beginning of English Civil War. March 1: Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America May 17 - Sieur de Maisonneuve[?] founds the Ville Marie de Montréal. July: Charles I besiges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal. October: Battle of Edgehill. The Dutch drive Spain from Taiwan. The first recorded sighting of New Zealand and Tasmania by Abel Tasman. Blaise Pascal produces a mechanical adding machine (the "Pascaline"). Claudio Monteverdi's opera l'Incoronazione di Poppeia is first performed. First Battle of Lostwithiel Births December 25: Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and scientist. Deaths January 8: Galileo Galilei, Italian artist and scientist. November 11: Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer. December 4: Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, French cardinal and statesman
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 - 1642 - 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647
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