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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s – 1640s – 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years:	1637 1638 1639 – 1640 – 1641 1642 1643

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Year 1640 (MDCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events [edit]

February 9 – Ibrahim I (1640–1648) succeeds Murat IV (1623–1640) as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
April 13 – King Charles I of England summons the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars.
May 5 – The Short Parliament is dispersed.
May 22 – The Guerra dels Segadors breaks out in Catalonia.

August 9 – Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded.
October 26 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland, England and Ireland.
November 3 – The English Long Parliament is summoned.
December 1
- End of the Iberian Union: João IV of Portugal is acclaimed as king, thus ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain, and the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). The Spanish Habsburgs do not recognize Portugal's new dynasty, the House of Braganza, until 1668.
- Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg starts to rule.

The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo, is founded in Turku.
The first book (the Bay Psalm Book) to be printed in North America is published.
The first known European coffee house opens in Venice.

January 14 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
January 25 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
February 9 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
March 17 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
April – Uriel da Costa, Portuguese philosopher (suicide) (b. 1585)
April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
May 30 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
June 3 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
September 30 – Charles, Duke of Guise (b. 1571)
October 20 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
December 30 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
date unknown – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
date unknown – Bombogor, Evenk Chief
probable – John Ford, dramatist (b. 1586)

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