1647 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1647?
- March 14, 1647 – Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- May 11, 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
- May 26, 1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
- August 8, 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
Who Were Born In The Year 1647?
- January 2, 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
- January 7, 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- March 12, 1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
- April 1, 1647 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
- April 2, 1647 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German botanist (d. 1717)
- June 20, 1647 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
- July 2, 1647 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
- August 12, 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
- August 22, 1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
- September 23, 1647 – Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
- November 18, 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
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