1640s

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Events

Personalities

  • Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre
  • Jules Mazarin, Cardinal
  • Ferdinand III. , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia
  • Philip IV, King of Spain, Naples, Sicily and Portugal
  • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
  • Innocent X, Pope
  • Urban VIII, Pope
  • Michael I, Tsar of Russia
  • Alexis I, Tsar of Russia
  • Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
  • Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
  • Go Komyo, Emperor of Japan
  • Meisho, Empress of Japan
  • Chongzhen, Emperor of China
  • Shunzhi, Emperor of China

Culture

  • Jan Brueghel the Younger completed the satirical painting Allegory of Tulipomanie. It refers to the so-called tulip mania in the Netherlands of the 1630s.
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