* 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army.

* 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.

* 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch model, wife of Rembrandt ( d. 1642 )

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

Meanwhile Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) derived the relationship for wave velocity in solids, a cornerstone of physical acoustics ( Principia, 1687 ).

* 1586 – William Hutchinson, English-American judge ( d. 1642 )

* 1642 – Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1723 )

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

A phenomenal number of paintings are ascribed to him, some of which are likely to be by other masters of the golden landscape, such as Abraham Calraet ( 1642 – 1722 ), whose initials A. C. may be mistaken for Cuyp's.

Charles was defeated in the First Civil War ( 1642 – 45 ), after which Parliament expected him to accept its demands for a constitutional monarchy.

* 1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar ( b. 1642 )

* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.

* 1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( d. 1703 )

* 1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman ( b. 1585 )

Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.

* 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

* 1642 – Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ( Roundheads ) and Royalists ( Cavaliers ).

The first ( 1642 – 46 ) and second ( 1648 – 49 ) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war ( 1649 – 51 ) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament.

During the Thirty Years ' War, Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna brought the Moravian Brethren refugee John Amos Comenius to Elbląg for six years ( 1642 – 48 ).

The Church considers the first seven Ecumenical Councils ( held between the 4th and the 8th century ) to be the most important ; however, there have been more, specifically the Synods of Constantinople, 879 – 880, 1341, 1347, 1351, 1583, 1819, and 1872, the Synod of Iaşi ( Jassy ), 1642, and the Pan-Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, 1672, all of which helped to define the Orthodox position.

* 1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist ( d. 1642 )

During his first imprisonment in 1642, he wrote his most famous poem ' To Althea, From Prison.

From 1642 to 1650, he held various intendancies, at first in the provinces and then with the army of chief minister Cardinal Mazarin and, coming thus in touch with the court, was permitted in 1650 to buy the important position of procureur général to the parlement of Paris.

From 1638 to 1643, she added a palace to the Katterburg mansion, while in 1642 came the first mention of the name " Schönbrunn " on an invoice.

From 1623 until the theatres close in 1642, Herbert effectively controls professional drama in England.

From 1642 to 1646 the family lived in London.

* The Massacre of the Boyd, 1809 and 1810 and After the Massacre, 1810 to 1814, Chapters 10 and 11 in From Tasman To Marsden: A History of Northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818, by Robert McNab.

From 1642 to 1661 and 1663 – 1668, Keelung was under Dutch control.

From 1642 onwards the broad tract of country between Ashby de la Zouch, Leicester and the Watling Street became the buffer zone between the rival garrisons of Royalists and the Parliamentarians.

From 1527 until 1642 the Principality of Harburg, seated in Harburg, was partitioned from Lüneburg.

From about 1642, Russians began hearing of a ‘ Pogycha River ’ to the east which flowed into the Arctic and was rich in sable fur, walrus ivory and silver ore. An attempt to reach it in 1646 failed.

From 1628 to 1642 he wrote his masterpiece, the Nederduytsche Historiën (" History of the Netherlands ").

From 1641 to early 1642, the fighting in Ireland was characterised by small bands, raised by local lords or among local people, attacking civilians of opposing ethnic and religious groups.

From 1642 to 1649, the Confederates controlled most of Ireland except for east and west Ulster, Cork and Dublin.

From 1642 he held the rectories of Yeovilton and Harleton.

From 1642 Richard Sterne held the rectory of Yeovilton before going on to become Archbishop of York.

From 1642 to 1646, a wall eleven metres high was raised to form the east bastion.

From 1642 to 1975, Sikkim was ruled by the Namgyal Monarchy ( also called the Chogyal Monarchy ), founded by the fifth-generation descendants of Guru Tashi, a prince of the Minyak House who came to Sikkim from the Kham district of Tibet ( link to Tibet page ?).

From 1641 to early 1642, the fighting in Ireland was characterized by small bands, raised by local lords or among local people, attacking civilians of opposing ethnic and religious groups.

From 1642 until modern times it was the chief frontier fortress south of the Tagus ; and it twice withstood sieges by the Spanish, in 1658 and 1711.

From June 10, 1642 to November 23, 1642 he was viceroy of New Spain.

:" Abbas II 1642 – 1666 From his descendants come the noble dynasty of Bigvand Kulyai ( Beghvan Külliye ) Kurdistan region of Iran Songhor-Koliai ( kulliye ).

From 1640 to 1642, he was at the Saint-Joseph de Sillery mission, near Quebec.

From that year until the theaters closed in 1642, Lowin ( together with Joseph Taylor ) assumed the roles previously fulfilled by Heminges, serving as treasurers and as contacts with the court and with the Master of the Revels.