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Years 1620 | Years 1630 | Years 1640 | Years 1650 | Years 1660

1640 | 1641 | 1642 | 1643 | 1644 | 1645 | 1646 | 1647 | 1648 | 1649
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Events

  • Head office of Drogheda in Ireland.

Significant characters

Art & Culture

  • In France, apogee of the Hotel of Rambouillet of 1630 with 1645 approximately.
  • Molière founds the Famous theater in 1643. This one settles with the Jeu of palm sharecroppers in January 1644. After the imprisonment of Molière for debts to the Châtelet in 1645, the troop leaves in round in province for several years, under the protection of the duke of Épernon.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • Beginning of the first informal meetings scientists, who give place later to the creation of the Royal Society.

Demography

  • the France account 20,3 million inhabitants (current borders). Demographic decline after 1640.
  • 5,5 million inhabitants in England.
  • 300 people live in News-France.
  • 50  000 white live the New England, of which 14  000 with the Massachusetts.
  • 20  000 colonists in the the English Antilles (West Indies).
  • Importation of 1,2 million African slaves in the the English Antilles between 1640 and 1781.

Economy & company

  • Sugar industry with the Barbados.

  • Rise of the workshops of silk trade to Nimes between 1640 and 1680.
  • Strong fall in the price of cereals in Germany (1640 - 1650).
  • Decline of the corporations in England after 1640 - 1650.
  • progressive Disappearance of the Venetian aristocracy to the capacity: the noble masculines of more than 25 years pass from 2  520 in 1550, with 1  970 in 1590, with 1  620 in 1645 (joint possession of the heritages, marriage only of elder).
  • Fall of the purchases of salt in the areas of the North and the center of the France in 1646 - 1664: they fall from 17% compared to the period 1621 - 1623.
  • Between 1640 and 1740, the sales of the Dutch Compagnie of the Eastern Indies with Amsterdam relate to spices and the textiles. The spices dominate initially (80%, including 40% for pepper), then the textiles (54,7% in 1700, against 30% for spices). The value of this trade and 72 million guilders in 1640,150 in 170, and culminates to 188 in 1720.
  • Russia: About 1640, the Vinius Dutchman founds a factory of armament with Toula and the Marselis German a foundry in the the Ural.

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Simple: 1640s

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