1642 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1642?
- January 4, 1642 – King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England’s slide into civil war.
- March 1, 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
- May 17, 1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
- May 30, 1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
- August 22, 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
- September 23, 1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
- October 23, 1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
- November 13, 1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
- November 24, 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
- December 13, 1642 – Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.
- December 18, 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
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