PEACH

History

1644

Population: 545 Million*

Entertainment: Writers include Calderon El alcalde de Zalamea, Corneille (tragedy), Descartes Principia philosophicae (Principles of Philosophy with Cogito, ergo sum), Henry Hammond A Practical Catechism, Sir Henry Manwayring The Seaman's Dictionary, John Milton (Freedom of the press), Samuel Rutherford (elections and monarchy), Roger Williams (separation of church and state)
Art includes Bernini "Ecstasy of St. Teresa", last age of fine Chinese porcelain, Rembrandt "Woman Taken in Adultery", Ribera "St. Paul the Hermit", Teniers "Kitchen of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm"
Religion: Death of Maddeo Barberini (Pope Urban VIII) – Giovanni Barrista Pamfili becomes Pope Innocent X
Technology: Evangelista Torricelli invents barometer
Deaths: Pope Urban VIII, Scientist Johann Baptista van Helmont, Artist Bernardo Strozzi, Artist Domenichino

Curacao: Battle between Dutch and Spanish over Caribbean
Peter Stuyvesant's amputated leg buried on Curacao with full military honors

China: Qing (Manchu) dynasty takes over China as Ming ends
End construction of Great Wall of China

England: Scottish general Leslie joins Cromwell to help at Battle of Marston Moor in Civil war - defeat Prince Rupert
Battle of Nantwich – royalists defeated as at Copredy Bridge and Marston Moor
Queen Henrietta Maria flees to France
York surrenders to Roundheads – Parliamentarian army surrenders to King Charles I at Fowey
Matthew Hopkins in Ipswich starts career as witchfinder
Split between Cromwell and Edward Montague - Montague wantss to bargain with king with split of King and Church - "Indepents Separatists Seekers" want to abolish all religious rule
France: Jacques Lemercier creates Val-de-Grace church in Paris
French drive imperial forces from Alsace
German States: French occupation of the Rhineland
Pegnitzischer Blumenorden the German poetical society created
Italian States: Bernini creates the Cornaro Chapel in Rome including "Ecstasy of St. Teresa"
Sweden: Queen Christina begins actual reign

New Zealand: Abel Tasman reaches New Zealand - Tasman charters parts of northern and western Australia as New Holland