Editing 1641 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; The deadline for Catholic priests to leave England expires. Among those who refuse to leave, [[Ambrose Barlow]] and [[William Ward (priest)|William Ward]] become [[Martyrdom|martyrs]]. Barlow surrenders on Easter Sunday, April 25, and is hanged on September 10; he will be canonized as a saint in 1970. Ward is caught on July 15 and executed on July 26.
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere]] is appointed by [[Pope Urban VIII]] to be the Roman Catholic Church's Patriarch of Jerusalem. 
* [[April 21]] &ndash; England's House of Commons votes 204 to 59 in favor of the conviction for treason and the execution of the Earl of Strafford, and the House of Lords acquiesces.<ref>David L. Smith, ''The Stuart Parliaments 1603–1689'' (Arnold Press, 1999) p. 123</ref> King Charles refuses to give the necessary royal assent.
* [[April 25]] &ndash; The [[Wu Sangui#Battle of Songjin|Battle of Songjin]] begins in the modern-day North Korean city of [[Kimch'aek]], at the time part of the Chinese Empire controlled by the [[Ming dynasty]]. The Ming, led by General [[Wu Sangui]], defeat the [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] rebels. 
* [[April 30]] &ndash; In Morocco, rebel leader and secessionist [[Sidi al-Ayachi]] is assassinated.<ref>Roger Coindreau, ''Les corsaires de Salé'' (Eddif, 2006) p. 52</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; The [[Protestation of 1641]] is passed by England's Parliament, requiring all officeholders to swear an oath of allegiance to [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and to the [[Church of England]].
* [[May 7]] &ndash; England's House of Lords votes, 51 to 9, in favor of the execution of the Earl of Strafford for treason. In fear for his own safety, King Charles I signs Strafford's death warrant on May 10. 
* [[May 11]] &ndash; The [[Long Parliament]] in England passes the "Act against Dissolving Parliament without its own Consent". 
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford]], former director of England's [[Council of the North]], is publicly beheaded in London in front of a crowd of thousands of people.  
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Providencia Island, Colombia|Providence Island]] in the Caribbean, settled by English Puritans and a haven for English pirates off the coast of modern-day [[Colombia]], is captured in a joint operation of the Spanish Navy in an attack led by Don Francisco Díaz Pimienta, and the Portuguese Navy led by the Count of Castel-Melhor Sousa. The expedition takes 770 prisoners, 380 slaves and a fortune in plundered gold and silver.<ref>Jon Latimer, ''Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) p.84.</ref>
* [[June 1]] &ndash; In Paris, representatives of [[Portugal]] and [[France]] sign a treaty of alliance.
* [[June 2]] &ndash; Bavarian and Spanish troops capture the town of [[Bad Kreuznach]] during the [[Thirty Years' War]], 17 months after it had been taken in a French and Saxon attack. 
* [[June 12]]
**In India, in the modern-day [[Rajasthan]] state, the Mughal Grand Vizier [[Abu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan]] is killed in a battle in [[Bundi]] against the armies of [[Nurpur kingdom|Nurpur]], commanded by the [[Raja Jagat Singh]]. The elaborate [[Tomb of Asif Khan]] is constructed at [[Lahore]] (modern Pakistan) on orders of the Mughal Emperor [[Jahangir]].
**The [[Treaty of The Hague (1641)|Treaty of The Hague]] is signed between representatives of the [[Dutch Republic]] and the [[Kingdom of Portugal]] as a 10-year truce and alliance.
* [[June 29]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Wolfenbüttel]] takes place between a combined Swedish and French force against the Holy Roman Empire, with the Swedish-French Army driving back an Imperial assault.