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

* 1642 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German composer and organist ( d. 1710 )

* March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( b. 1642 )

**** Johann Christoph Bach I ( 1642 – 1703 )

* February 22-Johann Christoph Bach, organist, elder brother of Johann Sebastian ( born 1642 )

* Johann Philipp von Schönborn 1642 – 1673

* June 14 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German composer and organist ( born 1642 )

* March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, organist and composer ( born 1642 )

Johann Philipp von Schönborn ( 6 August 1605 – 12 February 1673 ) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1647 until 1673, the Bishop of Würzburg from 1642 until 1673, and the Bishop of Worms from 1663 until 1673.

Appointed the Bishop of Würzburg on 8 September 1642, Johann Philipp quickly set to work restoring conditions in the prince-bishopric.

Johann Christoph Bach ( 6 December 1642 – 31 March 1703 ) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period.

The second volume in this series contained his opinion on the pancreatic duct, which had just been discovered in 1642 in Padua by Johann Georg Wirsung.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642.

The Jesuit brother Agostino Salumbrino ( 1561 – 1642 ), an apothecary by training who lived in Lima, observed the Quechua using the bark of the cinchona tree for that purpose.

These explorations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were soon followed by France, England and the Netherlands, who explored the Portuguese and Spanish trade routes into the Pacific Ocean, reaching Australia in 1606 and New Zealand in 1642.

Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.

Isaac Newton | Sir Isaac Newton, an English physicist who lived from 1642 to 1727

In 1642, the Jesuit ( Society of Jesus ) sponsored a group of settlers, led by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville-Marie, precursor to present-day Montreal.

Other historians claim that Berkeley County may have been named in honor of Sir William Berkeley ( 1610 – 1677 ), who was born near London, graduated from Oxford University in 1629, and was appointed Governor of Virginia in 1642.

In 1642, his old friend Hobbamock, who had been part of his household, died and was buried on Standish's farm in Duxbury.

The Jesuit Brother Agostino Salumbrino ( 1561 – 1642 ), an apothecary by training and who lived in Lima, observed the Quechua using the quinine-containing bark of the cinchona tree for that purpose.

Alex Charles Barre is one of the descendants of Guillaume Barre, French, born 1642 in St Valery, France and who settled about 1665 in the French West Indies, Martinique.

The first known explorer to have stepped foot in what is now known as Sargent ’ s Purchase was Darby Field, who claimed to have made the first ascent of Mount Washington in 1642.

The first recorded contact by Europeans with local Mohawk, who had occupied the area for centuries, was the 1642 visit of Jesuit missionaries to the village Tiononderoge ( in one of its variations ).

In 1642, Baillie was made Professor of Divinity, Glasgow, and in the following year was selected as one of the five Scottish clergymen who were sent to the Westminster Assembly.

Near the former wooden Putney Bridge, built in 1729 and replaced in 1886, the earl of Essex threw a bridge of boats across the river in 1642 in order to march his army in pursuit of Charles I, who thereupon fell back on Oxford.

However it seems the Master of the Revels, who normally reported to the Lord Chamberlain in any event, continued to perform the function on behalf of his superior until the English Civil War closed the London theatres in 1642.

Robert More, who died in 1642.

* Mary Ward, an English Roman Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of Loreto ( also known as the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary ), moved to the village in 1642 and stayed there until her death.

Considerable academic debate surrounds the issue, but the modern consensus is that mezzotint was instead invented in 1642 by Ludwig von Siegen, a German Lieutenant-Colonel who was also an amateur artist.

In 1642, they sponsored a group of settlers, led by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville-Marie, precursor to present-day Montreal, farther up the St. Lawrence.

The work of translating the Old Testament was undertaken by William Bedel ( 1571 – 1642 ), Bishop of Kilmore, who completed his translation within the reign of Charles I, although it was not published until 1680 in a revised version by Narcissus Marsh ( 1638 – 1713 ), Archbishop of Dublin.

' The first European name for New Zealand was Staten Landt, the name given to it by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who in 1642 became the first European to see the islands.

The Lords Justices, who suspected him because he was related to many of the Confederate leaders, recalled him from command, after he had succeeded in lifting the siege of Drogheda in March 1642.

In addition the Scots Covenanters, who had landed an army in the northeast of Ireland at Carrickfergus to counter the Catholic rebellion in that part of the country in early 1642, had subsequently put northeast Ireland on the side of the English Parliamentarians against the king ; and the relatively strong Protestant presence in and around Derry and Cork City was inclined to side with the Parliamentarians as well, and soon did so.

Rossi composed just two operas: Il palazzo incantato, which was given at Rome in 1642 ; and Orfeo, written after he was invited by Cardinal Mazarin in 1646 to go to Paris for that purpose,

The four civic guards of 1642, and the twelve musketeers with their president in an arm-chair ( 1648 ); in the town-hall at Amsterdam, are fine specimens of composed portrait groups.

The English Civil War, 1642 – 1645, led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with the repeal of the Royal Patent in August 1641.

On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out against Princes Rupert and Maurice with 18 troops of horses and dragoons.

The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).

During the English Civil War ( 1642 – 45 ) the town sided with parliament but was largely unaffected by the conflict.

However, he looked forward with anxiety for his release, which was delayed until March 1642 because the imperial government feared to see Horn at the head of the Swedish army and would not allow an exchange.

In March 1642 with the King absent from London and the war clouds gathering, Parliament decreed that its own Parliamentary Ordinances were valid laws, even without royal assent.

The next great change in Ottoman calligraphy came from the style of Hâfiz Osman ( 1642 – 1698 ), whose rigorous and simplified style found favor with an empire at its peak of territorial extent and governmental burdens.

In alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and in the late 1630s with the Scottish Presbyterians with whom they had much in common, the Puritans became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 46 ).

Samuel Gorton purchased the Native American lands at Shawomet in 1642, precipitating a military dispute with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The word supersessionism comes from English supersede, first known to have been used with the meaning replace in 1642.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

* Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) improved the telescope, with which he made several important astronomical discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and made detailed observations of sunspots.

Unified religious rule in Tibet began in 1642, when the Fifth Dalai Lama allied with the military power of the Mongol Gushri Khan to consolidate the political power and center control around his office as head of the Gelug school.

This lone relic was reburied in 1642 with a new marker, which was replaced 100 years later with a more elaborate monument.

Tasman anchored at the northern end of the South Island in Golden Bay ( he named it Murderers ' Bay ) in December 1642 and sailed northward to Tonga following a clash with local Māori.

* Quartos — high resolution scans of the 32 copies of Hamlet printed in quarto before 1642 with XML transcriptions

His first diplomatic mission on behalf of the city, in September 1642, was to the court of the Elector of Saxony at Dresden to seek some mitigation of the harshness with which the Saxon military commander treated Magdeburg.

The conflicts of the Civil War soon led King Charles to Oxford, with Harvey attending, where the physician was made ' Doctor of Physic ' in 1642 and later Warden of Merton College in 1645.

In 1642, Pope Urban VIII followed up with a papal bull entitled In eminenti, which condemned Augustinus on the grounds that ( 1 ) it was published in violation of the order that no works concerning grace should be published without the prior permission of the Holy See ; and ( 2 ) the work repeated several errors of Baianism which had been condemned by Pope Pius V's 1567 bull, Ex omnibus afflictionibus.

In December 1642, Tasman anchored at the northern end of the island in Golden Bay which he named Moordenaar's Bay ( Murderers Bay ) before sailing northward to Tonga following a clash with Māori.