1648
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s – 1640s – 1650s 1660s 1670s |
| Years: | 1645 1646 1647 – 1648 – 1649 1650 1651 |
| 1648 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| 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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Events of 1648
January–June
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Treaty of Munster
Holy Roman Empire 1648
Europe in 1648, post Treaty of Westphalia
- 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 – The beginning of the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine then in the Republic of Both Nations (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), which continues until 1654, and results, among other things, in the massacre of an estimated 100,000 Jews.
- April 19 – The Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army in the north of Brazil.
July–December
- October 24 – The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
- November 11 – France and the Netherlands agree that Mto 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 Oliver Cromwell invading London and expelling a majority of the Long Parliament, resulting in the creation of the Rump Parliament.
- August – The Arabs besieged Muscat, Oman
- October 31 A treaty was signed between the Arabs and the Portuguese. The terms were as follows: the Portuguese should build the fortress of Kuriyat, Dibba Al-Hisn (UAE), and Matrah (Oman).[1]
Undated
- Battle of Stirling (1648) took place.
- Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman Emperor.
- 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) is 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.
- The Fronde begins.
Ongoing events
- English Civil War (1642–1649)
- Dutch-Portuguese War
- Estimate of when Taj Mahal was finished.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1648 MDCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2401 |
| Armenian calendar | 1097 ԹՎ ՌՂԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -196 – -195 |
| Bengali calendar | 1055 |
| Berber calendar | 2598 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2192 |
| Burmese calendar | 1010 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7156 – 7157 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十二月初七日 (4284/4344-12-7) — to —
戊子年十一月十八日(4285/4345-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 1364 – 1365 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1640 – 1641 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5408 – 5409 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1704 – 1705 |
| - 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) |
| 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)
- date unknown – Anne de Rohan-Chabot, short term mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
- See also Category:1648 births.
Deaths
- February 2 – George Abbot, English writer (b. c.1605)
- February 28 – Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
- March 12 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (b. 1571)
- March 14 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
- April 12 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1578)
- May 20 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
- May 26 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
- August 12 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
- August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
- September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
- November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer (b. c. 1580)
- See also Category:1648 deaths.