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Year 1640 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1640
January - June
Charles I summons the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars.
July - December
October 26 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
November: The English Long Parliament is summoned.
December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. Spain doesn't recognize Portugal's independence until 1668.
Undated
The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo, was founded in Turku.
Change of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from Murat IV (1623-1640) to Ibrahim I (1640-1648).
The first book is printed in North America, the Bay Psalm Book.
The first known European coffee house opens in Venice.
Henry Glapthorne flourishes.
Births
January 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
March 18 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
March 30 - John Trenchard, English statesman (d. 1695)
April 1 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
May 31 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
June 9 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
July 10 - Aphra Behn, English author (d. 1689)
September 29 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
November 28 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain
December 6 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
December 13 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (d. 1696)
» See also .
Deaths
January 14 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
January 25 - Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
February 9 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
March 17 - Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
April - Uriel da Costa, Portuguese philosopher (suicide) (b. 1585)
April 10 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, German painter (b. 1577)
June 3 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
June 3 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
September 30 - Charles, Duke of Guise (b. 1571)
October 20 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
December 30 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
date unknown - Pedro Teixeira, explorer
probable - John Ford, dramatist (b. 1586) » See also .
Fiction
The play Cyrano by Edmond Rostand takes place in the year 1640.
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