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1640| 1606–1657 | Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary, Transylvania [treaties] | The 1606 peace treaties between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires lead to half a century of peace and stability in Hungary; no major campaigns are fought between the two, though frontier skirmishes and raids are endemic, and Transylvania develops into a rich regional power. | | 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | 1640 | England [technology] | In England, the Marquis of Worcester devises a steam engine to work a fountain. Steam is used to eject water from receivers through control cocks. It is a forerunner of Savery's steam pump. | | 8 February 1640 | Ottoman Empire [political events] | Sultan Ibrahim succeeds the Ottoman sultan Murad IV on his death. | | July 1640 | England [births and deaths] | Aphra Behn (née Johnson), English dramatist, novelist and poet, the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing, whose works include Oroonoko (1688) and The Rover (1678), born (–1689). | | 20 August 1640 | UK [wars] | A Scottish army crosses the River Tweed into England, beginning the Second Bishops' War. The war, between the Scottish Covenanters and Charles I of England, is caused by Charles' unpopular policies against the Scottish Kirk and ended in English defeats and bankruptcy for Charles. | | 1 December 1640 | Portugal, Spain [political events] | Portugal joins the revolt against Spain, which is already troubled by civil war in Catalonia. The Duke of Braganza accepts the throne of an independent Portugal and becomes King John IV. |
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Agazzari, Agostino
Alcoforado, Marianna
Bishops' Wars
Bogazköy
Bol, Ferdinand
Brueys, David Augustin de
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Carew, Thomas
Charles I
Chemnitz, Bogislaw Philipp von
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Habington, William
Hall, Joseph
Kindermann, Johann Erasmus
Malden
Pietro da Cortona
Poussin, Nicolas
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Vane, Henry
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| , as his epitaph says, found himself later on, at the famous siege of Turin, in 1640, between Prince Thomas of Savoy, whom he was besieging, and the Marquis de Leganez, who was blockading him. Mynheer van Baerle the father had amassed in the Indian trade three or four hundred thousand guilders, which Mynheer van Baerle the son, at the death of his dear and worthy parents, found still quite new, although one set of them bore the date of coinage of 1640, and the other that of This speech was heard by Porthos in the same sense as if it had still been in the year 1640 and related to the true cardinal. |