A modern barometer. Picture credit Sally Hunter
In the year 1643, a couple of months after sighting Tasmania, Abel Tasman sights Tonga (Jan 21) and then the Fiji Islands (Feb 6), Louis XIV becomes King of France, ruling 72 years, the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history (May 14), the failed Dutch expedition to Chilean Valdivia - the last one undertaken by the Dutch on the west coast of the Americas - arrives back at Recife in Dutch Brazil (Dec 28), Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer - and all these fine people were born:
1643-0104 Isaac Newton* mathematician/ astronomer/physicist – Woolsthorpe, England (1727/84)
1643-0113 Axel Wachtmeister* Count of Mälsåker/field marshal - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1699/56)
1643-0206 Charles Fanshawe* nobleman/diplomat - England (1710/67)
1643-0225 Ahmed II* Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1695/51) alt. birth date 1 August 1642.
1643-0304 Fran Krsto Frankopan* nobleman/poet/politician - Bosiljevo, Croatia, Habsburg Monarchy (1671/28)
1643-0325 Louis Moréri* priest/encyclopedist - Bargemon, Kingdom of France (1680/37)
1643-0406 Nehemiah Jewett* colonial politician - Rowley, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America (1720/76)
1643-0430 Johann Oswald Harms (B) painter/engraver/stage set designer - Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (1708/65)
1643-0503 Georg Franck von Franckenau* German physician/ botanist/personal physician to Christian V of Denmark - Naumberg, Holy Roman Empire (1704/61)
1643-0507 Stephanus Van Cortlandt* the first native-born mayor of New York City - New Amsterdam, New Netherland (1700/57)
1643-0510 Gabriel Revel* painter - Château-Thierry, Kingdom of France (1712/69)
1643-0703 Alessandro Stradella* composer - Bologna, Papal States (1682/38)
1643-0726 Burchard de Volder* physician/his laboratory was unique for its time - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1709/65)
1643-0728 Antonio Tarsia* Italian composer - Koper, Slovenia (1722/78)
1643-0803 Charles de la Rue* Jesuit priest/ Latin poet/orator - Paris, Kingdom of France (1725/81)
1643-0821 Afonso VI of Portugal* a.k.a. “the Victorious” - Ribeira Castle, Lisbon, Portugal (1683/40)
1643-0906 François-Joseph de Beaupoil* nobleman/ poet/army officer - Aixe-sur-Vienne, Kingdom of France (1742/99)
1643-0914 Joseph de Jouvancy* poet/ philologist/historian - Paris, Kingdom of France (1719/75)
1643-0918 Gilbert Burnet* philosopher/historian - Edinburgh, Scotland (1715/71)
1643-0930 Samuel Hoadly* schoolmaster/ writer of educational books/to England at age 12 - Guildford, Connecticut Colony, British America (1705/62)
1643-1014 Bahadur Shah I* the eighth Mughal emperor in India - Burhanpur, Mughal Empire (1712/68)
1643-1025 Georg Ludwig Agricola* composer - Großfurra, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire (1676/32)
1643-1101 John Strype* clergyman/ historian/ biographer - Houndsditch, London, England (1737/94)
1643-1116 Jean Chardin* jeweller/ traveller/travel writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1713/69)
1643-1122 René-Robert Cavelier* a.k.a. Robert de la Salle, he explored the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada, the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the entire Mississippi River basin for France - Rouen, Normandy, France (1687/43)
1643-1224 Israel Kolmodin* hymnwriter/ priest/usually credited for having written the song “Den blomstertid nu kommer” - Enköping, Swedish Empire (1709/65)
Updated 23.10.2021-1
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