When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.

The Bowhead whale was locally hunted to near extinction around 1640 ( approximately 1000 had been killed and processed on the island ), at which time Jan Mayen was abandoned and stayed uninhabited for two and a half centuries.

Only two Sultans in this period personally exercised strong political and military control of the Empire: the vigorous Murad IV ( 1612 – 1640 ) recaptured Yerevan ( 1635 ) and Baghdad ( 1639 ) from the Safavids and reasserted central authority, albeit during a brief majority reign.

In the period 1640 – 60 the West Indies attracted over two thirds of English emigrants to the New World.

According to 17th century documents, a young Spanish man's leg was miraculously restored to him in 1640 after having been amputated two and a half years earlier.

The first recorded meeting between these two was 1640.

In 1640, Francisco Cesi, President of the Academia Linei of Rome, bought the Ximenes translation, and after annotating it, published it in 1649-1651 in two volumes as Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus Seu Nova Plantarium, Animalium et Mineraliuím Mexicanorum Historia.

They became a popular crop amongst Kentish growers, and by 1640 over two dozen named cultivars were recorded.

The two were married in 1638 and Aphra, or Eaffry, was baptized on 14 December 1640 in Harbledown, a village just outside Canterbury.

This was called the Bishops ' War ( 1639 – 1640 ) and it had two major parts: The first Bishops ' War ( 1639 ) ended in a truce.

They had two children, Philippe de Carteret II ( 1584 – 1643 ) and Elias ( 1585 – 1640 ), who was the father of Sir George Carteret.

Between 1605 and 1640, Jones was responsible for staging over 500 performances, collaborating with Ben Jonson for many years, despite a relationship fraught with competition and jealousy: the two had famous arguments about whether stage design or literature was more important in theatre.

Within two years he was however cut down by a sudden illness ; the Augustinus, the book of his life, was published posthumously in 1640.

The collection spans more than two centuries of American decorative arts, notably from 1640 to 1860, and contains some of the most important pieces of American furniture and fine art.

The unification of the crowns of the two Iberian kingdoms, known as the Iberian Union, lasted until 1640, although the institutions of both kingdoms remained separate.

Levasseur was successful and on 6 November 1640 a treaty was drawn up between de Poincy and Levasseur which allowed religious tolerations and trade between the two islands.

From 1640 to 1885 The town formed the parliamentary borough of Northallerton, returning two Members of Parliament until 1832, and one thereafter.

The oldest buildings date from the 18th century, as two fires of 1640 and 1682 destroyed the town.

For two hundred years, 1440 – 1640, Portuguese slavers had a near monopoly on the export of slaves from Africa.

The two collections under Matei Basarab are Pravila de la Govora (" The Govora Code ") in 1640 and Pravila lui Matei Basarab (" Matei Basarab's Code "; also known as Îndreptarea Legii-" The Re-shaping of Laws ") in 1652.

In May 1640, Northumberland was one of only two members of a subcommittee of the Privy Council who opposed the dissolution of the Short Parliament, a move that confirmed his break with Wentworth ( whom Charles had recently named Earl of Strafford ) and earned him the displeasure of the king.

Roger Ludlow ( 1590 – 1664 ), one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut, helped to purchase and charter the towns of Fairfield ( 1639 ) and Norwalk ( purchased 1640, chartered as a town in 1651 ).

The colonists founded Salem, Boston, and several small towns around Massachusetts Bay between 1628 and 1640, at a time of increased English immigration.

They expanded into additional towns ( then called plantations ): Milford and Guilford in 1639, Stamford and Southold across Long Island Sound to the south on the North Fork of Long Island in 1640 forming the original component of the confederation which called itself " The United Colonies of New England.

In short time, the towns of Portsmouth and Newport united, and Coddington was made, by continuous election, the governor of the island towns from 1640 to 1647.

The two towns of Portsmouth and Newport reunited in 1640 under the leadership of William Coddington, and Coggeshall was his assistant until 1647 when the two towns of Rhode Island united to form a common government with the towns of Providence and Warwick, and Coggeshall was elected President of the entire colony of four towns.

Captain Francis Champernowne moved from Strawbery Banke in 1640 and settled in the area of the present Portsmouth Country Club.

He was created Earl of Lanark, Lord Machanshyre and Polmont in the Peerage of Scotland in 1639, and in April 1640 was elected Member of Parliament for Portsmouth in the House of Commons of England for the Short Parliament.

Hutchinson became the judge ( governor ) of the Portsmouth settlement from 1639 until 12 March 1640, when Portsmouth united with Newport to become the Colony of Rhode Island, with Coddington elected as governor of the two-town colony, and Hutchinson becoming one of his assistants.

Many of the first colonists in Newport quickly became Baptists, and in 1640 the second Baptist congregation in Rhode Island was formed under the leadership of John Clarke.

In 1640 he elected Member of Parliament for Newport in the Isle of Wight to the Short Parliament.

He was re-elected for Newport for the Long Parliament in November 1640, and took an active part on the side of the opposition.

Governor William Coddington House, a stone-ender in Newport, built around 1640, was destroyed in 1835.

There is also one daily service to Tenby, departing Newport at 1640 and a daily service to Pembroke Dock, departing Newport at 1841.

Portugal's position in Europe suffered a major change in 1580 when the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal were united by a personal union under King Philip, creating the Iberian Union which lasted until 1640.

Initially, the city was under Spanish influence, as Spain and Portugal were united in the Iberian Union ( 1580 – 1640 ), and in 1588 the city was even renamed Filipéia de Nossa Senhora das Neves after Philip II of Spain.

And after 1640 the opposition to the war more and more united Holland.

Spain won and the crowns of both countries were personally united until 1640.

While united with the Spanish Crown, from 1580 to 1640, Portugal kept the organization of terços, although the Army had declined.

This is the beginning of the Iberian Union ( 1581 – 1640 ), during which the Kingdoms of Portugal and Spain were united.

While the Dutch were waging a long war of independence against Spain, Portugal had temporarily united with Spain, starting in 1580 and ending in 1640.