1643
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 - 1643 - 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648
See also:
- 1643 in literature
- 1643 in music
- 1643 in science
- 1643 in sports
Events
- January 21 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga
- May 14 - Four year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
- July 13 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
- The Royalist forces supporting Charles I in the English Civil War win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire.
- End of the reign of Empress Meisho of Japan
- Emperor Go-Komyo ascends to the throne of Japan
- Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer
- New England Confederation is formed
- Battle of Tüttlingen fought
- Baden-Baden pillaged by the French
- first two volumes of the Acta Sanctorum published
- Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve places the first cross atop Mount Royal
- Åmål is granted its city charter
- August 21 - Future King Alphonso VI of Portugal.
- Future Ottoman sultan Ahmed II
- May 14 - Louis XIII of France
- November 11, Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer
- Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician
