1642 in Spain

none 1642 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 La Roncière Charles de Histoire de la marine française. Vol I E. Plon, Nourrit 1899 Paris fr 85 August - The Dutch drive the Spanish out of their colony of Spanish Formosa and regain control.Tonio Andrade Andrade Tonio How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century Columbia University Press 2005 http://www.gutenberg-e.org/andrade/ Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera, governor of the Philippines, is blamed for the loss of Formosa and eventually tried in court for his actions.http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~borao/2Profesores/Paper%20Macao%20Overview.pdf An Overview of the Spaniards in Taiwan 2012-05-16 University of Taiwan University of Taiwan Foreign Languages in Literature Jose Eugenio Barrio 2007 September 9 - Siege of Perpignan (1642). 500 Spanish survive out of original garrison of 3,000J. Sanabre. La acción de Francia en Cataluña en la pugna por la hegemonía de Europa (1640-1659). Barcelona, 1956 October 7 - Battle of Lerida (1642) Deaths November 5 - Luis de Valdivia, Jesuit missionary (born 1560) References 1642 in Category:1640s in Spain Spain Category:1642 in Europe Category:Years of the 17th century in Spain