1648 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1648?
- January 17, 1648 – 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, 1648 – Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- May 13, 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
- May 15, 1648 – The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
- June 1, 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
- June 14, 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
- October 18, 1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
- October 24, 1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
- December 6, 1648 – Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King’s trial to go ahead; came to be known as “Pride’s Purge”.
Who Were Born In The Year 1648?
- January 1, 1648 – Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
- February 23, 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
- April 4, 1648 – Grinling Gibbons Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721)
- April 7, 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
- April 9, 1648 – Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
- April 13, 1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
- April 26, 1648 – King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
- August 9, 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
- August 11, 1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)
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