1647

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Years:	1644 1645 1646 – 1647 – 1648 1649 1650

1647 in topic:

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Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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Year 1647 (MDCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1647 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Events of the English Civil War 1.5 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events of 1647

January–June

• March 14 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• April 3 – In England, a letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons.
• May 13 – 1647 Santiago earthquake rattles Chile.
• May 29 – The Rhode Island General Assembly drafts a constitution that separates church and state, and permits public referendums and initiatives on legislation.
• Old Deluder Satan Act - 1647, Education Massachusetts

July–December

• August – The New Model Army marches to London.
• August – Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
• August 8 – Battle of Dungan's Hill: Irish forces are defeated by English Parliamentary forces.
• November – Battle of Knocknanauss: An Irish confederate force is destroyed by the army of Parliament; Alasdair MacColla is killed.

Undated

• England's Puritan rulers ban Christmas.
• Johann von Werth tries to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refuse.

Events of the English Civil War

• Aberystwyth Castle is razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops.

• December 28 – Charles promises church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.

Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642–1649).

Births

1647 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1647 MDCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2400
Armenian calendar	1096 ԹՎ ՌՂԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-197 – -196
Bengali calendar	1054
Berber calendar	2597
Buddhist calendar	2191
Burmese calendar	1009
Byzantine calendar	7155 – 7156
Chinese calendar	丙戌年十一月廿六日 (4283/4343-11-26) — to — 丁亥年十二月初六日 (4284/4344-12-6)
Coptic calendar	1363 – 1364
Ethiopian calendar	1639 – 1640
Hebrew calendar	5407 – 5408
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1703 – 1704
- Shaka Samvat	1569 – 1570
- Kali Yuga	4748 – 4749
Holocene calendar	11647
Iranian calendar	1025 – 1026
Islamic calendar	1056 – 1057
Japanese calendar	Shōhō 4 (正保4年)
Korean calendar	3980
Thai solar calendar	2190

• January 7 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
• March 12 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
• April 1 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
• June 20 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
• July 2 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councillor (d. 1730)
• August 12 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
• August 22 – Denis Papin, French inventor (d. 1712)
• September 23 – Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1720)
• November 18 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
• date unknown – Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher (d. 1710)

Deaths

• January 29 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
• March 14 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian (b. 1581)
• June 2 – Christian, Prince Elect of Denmark, Danish prince (b. 1603)
• June 12 – Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. c.1575)
• July 7 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
• July 16 – Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
• August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
• October 8 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
• October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1608)
• November 30 – Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (b. 1598)^[1]

References