1648 Totally Explained

Everything about 1648 totally explained

Year 1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1648

January - June

January 17 - England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
January 30 - The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Treaty of Munster, ending the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish Empire recognizes the Dutch Republic of United Netherlands as a sovereign state, (governed by the House of Orange-Nassau and the Estates General) which was before a province of the Spanish Empire.
January - Khmelnytsky Uprising in Republic of Both Nations (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).
April 19 - Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army in the north of Brazil.

July - December

October 20 - American Indian Battle of Tippycart

October 24 - Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.

November 11 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.

December 11 - Pride's Purge occurs in England, with elements of the New Model Army, under the leadership of Henry Ireton invading London and expelling a majority of the Long Parliament, resulting in the creation of the Rump Parliament.

Undated

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ibrahim I (1640-1648) to Mehmed IV (1648-1687)

Admiral Robert Blake defeats Prince Rupert and the remnants of the Royalist navy in the English Civil War.

In India, building of the Red Fort is completed.

Semyon Dezhnev discovers the Bering Strait between Asia and North America.

The west bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) occupied and looted by Swedish armies.

Sabbatai Zevi declares himself the Messiah at Smyrna.

A major earthquake strikes Van, a town in Ottoman Armenia.

French intervention ends.

Fronde begins.

Ongoing events

English Civil War (1642-1649)

Dutch-Portuguese War

Births

January 1 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)

February 23 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)

April 4 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (d. 1721)

April 7 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)

April 9 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)

April 13 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)

April 26 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1712)

August 9 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)

December 15 - Gregory King, English statistician (d. 1712)

date unknown - Bhai Ghanaiya, Indian social worker, founder of modern-day Red Cross (d. 1718) � See also .

Deaths

February 2 - George Abbot, English writer (born c.1605)

February 28 - Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1577)

March 12 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (born 1571)

March 14 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (born 1584)

April 12 - Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (born 1578)

May 20 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (born 1595)

May 26 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (born 1597)

August 12 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1615)

August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583)

September 1 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (born 1588)

November 17 - Thomas Ford, English composer (born c.1580) � See also .

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