Editing 1640 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]]  &ndash; [[John Punch (slave)|John Punch]], a servant of [[Ancient planter|Virginia planter]] [[Hugh Gwyn]], is sentenced to a life of servitude after attempting to escape, making him the "first official slave in the English colonies" <ref>{{Cite journal|title = Law and the Cultural Production of Race and Racialized Systems of Oppression|last = Coates|url = http://web.pdx.edu/~ingham/syllabi/Perspectives/LawHistRacism.pdf|year = 2003|journal = [[American Behavioral Scientist]]|issue = 3|volume = 47|pages = 329–351|doi = 10.1177/0002764203256190|s2cid = 146357699}}</ref>
* [[July 15]]  &ndash; The first university of Finland, the [[Royal Academy of Turku]], is inaugurated in [[Turku]].<ref>Simo Tuomola, Simo: ''Abo – Suomen metropoli: 1600-luku Turussa'', p. 46. (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[http://www.halvi.helsinki.fi/museo/yliopiston_historia/kuninkaallinen_turun_akatemia.htm Kuninkaallinen Turun akatemia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110173152/http://www.halvi.helsinki.fi/museo/yliopiston_historia/kuninkaallinen_turun_akatemia.htm |date=November 10, 2020 }} – Arppeanum (in Finnish)</ref>
* [[August 9]] &ndash; Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at [[Nagasaki]] are beheaded.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Bishops' Wars#Second Bishops' War (1640)|Second Bishops' War]]: A Scottish [[Covenanter]] army invades [[Northumberland]] in England.<ref name="British Civil War1640">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1640.htm|title=British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60|access-date=August 28, 2013|archive-date=April 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419132637/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1640.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; Second Bishops' War &ndash; [[Battle of Newburn]]: The Scottish Covenanter army led by [[Alexander Leslie]] defeats the English army near [[Newburn]] in England.<ref name="British Civil War1640" />
* [[September 7]] &ndash; Portuguese missionary [[Sebastien Manrique]] reaches [[Dhaka]] and stays for 27 days, leaving on October 4.<ref>''Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643: A Translation of the Itinerario de Las Missiones Orientales'',  Volume I: Arakan (Taylor & Francis, 2017)</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Turin (1640)|Siege of Turin]] ends in Italy after almost four months with a victory by French and Piedmontese after having started on May 22, and the city is recaptured from Spain.