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1640

1640 — Korea: 긍구당 김세환(肯構堂 金世煥) 출생 / China: May — Qing dynasty captures the Evenk fortresses of Duochen, Asajin, Yakesa, and Duojin / United States: French and Iroquois Wars escalate to full warfare

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KoreaJoseon 1392–1897ChinaQing dynasty 1636–1912JapanEdo period 1603–1868United StatesThirteen Colonies 1607–1776
  • 긍구당 김세환(肯構堂 金世煥) 출생KO
  • 도정서원(道正書院) 건립KO
  • 약포사당(藥圃祠堂) 건립KO
  • 1638허 한(許 僩) 부임
  • 1638각사 비자로 제도에 있는 10명을 심양에 입송함.
  • 1639경상도 속오군을 동원하여 금오산성(金烏山城)을 축조함.
  • 1639경기 지방의 속오군을 중심으로 정초군(精抄軍)을 설치하고 번상하게 함.이태진,
  • 1639춘당대(春塘臺)에서 내금위포(內禁衛砲)를 시험함.
  • 1641유 철(兪 㯙) 부임
  • May — Qing dynasty captures the Evenk fortresses of Duochen, Asajin, Yakesa, and Duojin
  • summer — Rebels enter Sichuan
  • 1638Ming forces are defeated on the Shanxi-Henan border
  • 1638The Peking Gazette first used moveable type.
  • 1638Qing dynasty conquers Shandong
  • 1638Qing dynasty conquers Shandong
  • 1639Chen Hongshou arrived in Beijing.
  • 1639Portuguese merchants from Macau are banned from Nagasaki
  • 1639The Spanish and Filipinos massacre 20,000 Chinese in Luzon
  • 1639Xu Guangqi published a treatise on agriculture.
  • 1639Qing dynasty attacks the Daur and Solon people
  • 1639Zhejiang experiences drought
  • 1641October — Zhang Xianzhong takes Changsha and Hengzhou
  • 1641Rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong takes Xiangyang
  • 1641Battle of San Salvador (1641)
  • 1641March — Xu Xiake died.
  • 1641March — Li Zicheng takes Luoyang
  • 1641Locusts attack Zhejiang
  • 1641July — Zhang Xianzhong takes Wuchang
  • 1641Li Zicheng takes Kaifeng
  • 1641Li Zicheng enters Henan
  • 16421642 Yellow River flood
  • 1642Battle of Song-Jin
  • 1642Battle of San Salvador (1642)
  • 1642洪承疇降清。
  • 1642Composite metal cannons are produced in the Ming dynasty.
  • 1642Li Zicheng's rebels manage to create a two zhang breach in Ming fortifications using cannons.
  • 1642A Han army was made the last of the Qing Eight Banners.
  • 1642Floods strike Zhejiang
  • No events recorded for this year
  • 1638April — Shimabara Rebellion: The last of the rebels were defeated in their fortress at Shimabara.
  • 1639ポルトガル人の来航を禁じる、鎖国が完成する。
  • 1641オランダ人を長崎出島に移す（鎖国の完成）。
  • 1642Kan'ei Great Famine
  • French and Iroquois Wars escalate to full warfare.
  • Virginia courts sentence John Punch a black indentured servant to life of servitude for running away from an abusive plantation owner Hugh Gwyn.
  • 1638Pequot War
  • 1638The Free Grace Controversy ended, when Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • 1638Roger Williams founded the First Baptist Church in America.
  • 1639Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony
  • 1642English Civil War