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

1. La Roncière, Charles de (1899). Histoire de la marine française. Vol I (in French). Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit. p. 85.
2. Andrade, Tonio (2005). How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. Columbia University Press.
3. 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.
4. J. Sanabre. La acción de Francia en Cataluña en la pugna por la hegemonía de Europa (1640-1659). Barcelona, 1956