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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
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| Years: | 1645 1646 1647 - 1648 - 1649 1650 1651 |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
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).
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[edit] Events of 1648
[edit] 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.
- April 19 - Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army in the north of Brazil.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1648 MDCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2401 |
| Armenian calendar | 1097 ԹՎ ՌՂԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -196 – -195 |
| Berber calendar | 2598 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2192 |
| Burmese calendar | 1010 |
| Chinese calendar | 4284/4344-12-7 (丁亥年十二月初七日) — to — 4285/4345-11-18(戊子年十一月十八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1364 – 1365 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1640 – 1641 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5408 – 5409 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1703 – 1704 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1570 – 1571 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4749 – 4750 |
| Holocene calendar | 11648 |
| Iranian calendar | 1026 – 1027 |
| Islamic calendar | 1057 – 1058 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōhō 5Keian 1 (慶安元年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2308 (皇紀2308年) |
| Julian calendar | 1693 |
| Korean calendar | 3981 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2191 |
- 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 Category:1648 births.
[edit] 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 Category:1648 deaths.af:1648
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