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1641 In France
Events from the year 1641 in France. Incumbents *Monarch: Louis XIII Events * * * * * * * René Descartes' ''Meditations on First Philosophy'' is originally published. Births * * * * * * * * January 18 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (d. 1691) * February 2 – Claude de la Colombière, French Jesuit priest and saint (d. 1682) * June 15 – Bernard de la Monnoye, French lawyer (d. 1728) * June 28 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (d. 1716) * June 29 – Pierre Cholonec, French Jesuit missionary and biographer in New France (d. 1723) * September 1 – Jean Barbier d'Aucour, French lawyer and satirist (d. 1694) * November 17 – André, marquis de Nesmond, French naval commander (d. 1702) * December 7 – Louis, Count of Armagnac, French noble (d. 1718) ** Pierre Allix, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1717 Events January–March * January 1 – Count Carl Gyllenborg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 29
Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. *1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war. * 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. * 1457 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire *1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1601–1900 *1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground. *1620 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound. *1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. *1659 – At the Battle of Konotop (1659), Battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Allix
Pierre Allix (1641 – 3 March 1717) was a French Protestant pastor and author. In 1690 Allix was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was given the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Gilbert Burnet. He discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest. Life Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London. There he set up a church in Jewin Street, Aldersgate. He was the most celebrated Huguenot preacher of the 1680s in England, closely associated with Charles Le Cène, and known to advocate religious toleration. In 1690 Allix was created Doctor of Divinity by Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was given the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral by Bishop Gilbert Burnet. Allix discovered that Codex Ephraemi is a palimpsest. He died in London. He had a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1718
Events January – March * January 7 – In India, Sufi rebel leader Shah Inayat Shaheed from Sindh who had led attacks against the Mughal Empire, is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discuss peace. * January 17 – Jeremias III reclaims his role as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, chief leader within the Eastern Orthodox Church, 16 days after the Metropolitan Cyril IV of Pruoza had engineered an election to become the Patriarch. * February 14 – The reign of Victor Amadeus over the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg (now within the state of Saxony-Anhalt in northeastern Germany) ends after 61 years and 7 months. He had ascended the throne on September 22, 1656. He is succeeded by his son Karl Frederick. * February 21 – Manuel II (Mpanzu a Nimi) becomes the new monarch of the Kingdom of Kongo (located in western Africa at present day Angola) when King Pedro IV (Nusamu a Mvemba) dies after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis, Count Of Armagnac
Louis of Lorraine (7 December 1641 – 13 June 1718) was the Count of Armagnac from his father's death in 1666. The ''Grand Squire of France'', he was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise, itself a cadet branch of the sovereign House of Lorraine. His descendants include Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Umberto II of Italy, and Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval. Biography ''Louis de Lorraine'' was born in Paris to Henri de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac and his wife Marguerite Philippe du Cambout. His younger brother, Philippe, chevalier de Lorraine, was infamously the lover of '' Monsieur'', i.e., Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV. He, like his father before him, was the ''Grand Squire of France'', one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France and a member of the King's Household. At Louis' death, the post, as well as style of ''Monsieur le Grand'' was taken by his son Charles, Count of Armagnac (at Charles' death, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 7
Events Pre-1600 *43 BC – Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius. * 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius II Constantine, Tiberius and proclaims him as ''Caesar (title), Caesar''. * 927 – The Sajid dynasty , Sajid emir of Adharbayjan, Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj is defeated and captured by the Qarmatians near Kufa. 1601–1900 *1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die. *1724 – Tumult of Thorn (Toruń), Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestantism, Protestant citizens and the mayor of Toruń, Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities. *1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England. *1776 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1702
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – A total solar eclipse is visible from the southern Pacific Ocean. * January 12 – In North America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, to build ''Fort Louis de la Mobile'' (future Mobile, Alabama), to become the capital of French Louisiana. * February 1 – The Duc de Villeroy, commander of the French Army, is taken as a prisoner of war by the Austrian Army during the Battle of Cremona * March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – King William III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", while riding in Hampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from his injuries 16 days later at the age of 51. * March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of the Calore valley in Italy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André, Marquis De Nesmond
André, marquis de Nesmond (Bordeaux, 17 November 1641 – Havana, 11 June 1702) was a French naval commander from the seventeenth century. He was the second son of Henri de Nesmond (1600–1651). Henri de Nesmond (1655–1672) was his younger brother. In 1658 he became a member of the Order of Malta. In 1662 he entered in the service of the French Navy and was wounded in 1663 in a battle with 3 Algerian Barbary corsairs, corsairs. in 1667 he was promoted to captain and fought under François, Duke of Beaufort in the Siege of Candia in 1669. In the Franco-Dutch War he commanded the ''Vaillant'' in the Battle of Solebay in 1672, the ''Conquérant'' in the Battle of Schooneveld in 1673 and again the ''Vaillant'' in the Battle of Texel. In 1674–1675 he commanded the ''Actif'' and defeated Engel de Ruyter near The Lizard. In 1677–1678 he commanded the ''Belliqueux'' in the Caribbean, where he was implicated in the foundering of the fleet of Jean II d'Estrées, in the disaster of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 17
Events Pre-1600 * 887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November. *1183 – Genpei War: The Battle of Mizushima takes place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the Taira clan. * 1292 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. * 1405 – Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu. * 1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy. * 1511 – Henry VIII of England concludes the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of Aragon. * 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. 1601–1900 * 1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1694
Events January–March * January 16 – Francesco Morosini, the Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War. * January 18 – Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France. * January 21 (January 11 O.S.) – The Kiev Academy, now the national university of Ukraine, receives official recognition by Tsar Ivan V of Russia. * January 28 – '' Pirro e Demetrio'', an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London. * January 29 – French missionary Jean-Baptiste Labat arrives in the "New World", landing at the Caribbean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Barbier D'Aucour
Jean Barbier d'Aucour (1 September 1641, Langres – 3 September 1694, Paris) was a French lawyer to the parliament of Paris, ardent Jansenist and satirist. He wrote anti-Jesuit pamphlet A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a ''leaflet'' or it may consist of a ...s in prose and verse (he had formerly studied under the Jesuits). Publications Publications by Jean Barbier d'Aucouron WikiSource *, 1664 *, 1665 *, 1671 *, 1674 *, 1680 *', 1688 1641 births 1694 deaths People from Langres French satirists 17th-century French lawyers Members of the Académie Française French male non-fiction writers {{France-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 1
Events Pre-1600 * 1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated. * 1173 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona by the forces of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. * 1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes ''In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum'' from the Old town of Visoki. * 1420 – A 9.4 MS-strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunamis in Chile as well as Hawaii and Japan.Manuel Abad, Tatiana Izquierdo, Miguel Cáceres, Enrique Bernárdez and Joaquín Rodríguez‐Vidal (2018). ''Coastal boulder deposit as evidence of an ocean‐wide prehistoric tsunami originated on the Atacama Desert coast (northern Chile)''. Sedimentology. Publication: December 13th, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12570 *1449 – Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China. * 1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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