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Decades:	1620s; 1630s; 1640s; 1650s; 1660s;
See also:	Other events of 1642; List of years in Spain

Events in the year 1642 in Spain.

Incumbents

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)

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