1642 in Spain
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Events in the year 1642 in Spain.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Philip IV
Events
- March 4 - Siege of São Filipe near Angra do Heroismo in Azores ends with Portuguese victory
- March 28 - Catalan Revolt: Battle of Montmeló
- June 29-July 3 - Battle of Barcelona[1]
- August - The Dutch drive the Spanish out of their colony of Spanish Formosa and regain control.[2] Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera, governor of the Philippines, is blamed for the loss of Formosa and eventually tried in court for his actions.[3]
- September 9 - Siege of Perpignan (1642). 500 Spanish survive out of original garrison of 3,000[4]
- October 7 - Battle of Lerida (1642)
Deaths
- November 5 - Luis de Valdivia, Jesuit missionary (born 1560)
References
- ^ La Roncière, Charles de (1899). Histoire de la marine française. Vol I (in French). Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit. p. 85.
- ^ Andrade, Tonio (2005). How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. Columbia University Press.
- ^ Jose Eugenio Barrio (2007). "An Overview of the Spaniards in Taiwan" (PDF). University of Taiwan Foreign Languages in Literature. University of Taiwan. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
- ^ J. Sanabre. La acción de Francia en Cataluña en la pugna por la hegemonía de Europa (1640-1659). Barcelona, 1956
