1649

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1649 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1649
MDCXLIX
Ab urbe condita2402
Armenian calendar1098
ԹՎ ՌՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6399
Balinese saka calendar1570–1571
Bengali calendar1056
Berber calendar2599
English Regnal year24 Cha. 1 – 1 Cha. 2
(Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar2193
Burmese calendar1011
Byzantine calendar7157–7158
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4345 or 4285
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4346 or 4286
Coptic calendar1365–1366
Discordian calendar2815
Ethiopian calendar1641–1642
Hebrew calendar5409–5410
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1705–1706
 - Shaka Samvat1570–1571
 - Kali Yuga4749–4750
Holocene calendar11649
Igbo calendar649–650
Iranian calendar1027–1028
Islamic calendar1058–1059
Japanese calendarKeian 2
(慶安２年)
Javanese calendar1570–1571
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3982
Minguo calendar263 before ROC
民前263年
Nanakshahi calendar181
Thai solar calendar2191–2192
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1775 or 1394 or 622
    — to —
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1776 or 1395 or 623
January 30: Execution of Charles I
September 3–11: Siege of Drogheda

1649 (MDCXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1649th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 649th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 17th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1649, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 4 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament passes an ordinance to set up a High Court of Justice, to try Charles I for high treason.
  • January 20 – Charles I of England goes on trial, for treason and other "high crimes".
  • January 27 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is found guilty of high treason in a public session. He is beheaded three days later, outside the Banqueting Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London.
  • January 30
    • Following the execution of King Charles I, the Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England, and later of Scotland and Ireland. Members of the Long Parliament serve as government.
    • Charles, Prince of Wales becomes King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time, none of the three kingdoms recognize him as ruler.[1]
  • February 5 – In Edinburgh, Scotland claimant King Charles II of England is declared King in his absence. Scotland is the first of the three Kingdoms to recognize his claim to the throne.[1]
  • March 11 – The rebel Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
  • March 15 – The city of Lappeenranta (Swedish: Villmanstrand) is founded by Queen Christina of Sweden.[2][3]
  • March 16 – An over 1,000 strong war party of Haudenosaunee invade and burn the Huron mission villages of St. Ignace and St. Louis in present-day Simcoe County, Ontario, killing about 300 people.
  • March 19 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".[4]
  • March – French colonists from Martinique land in a lagoon and found on Grenada but soon abandon this fort to cross the lagoon and found Fort Royal which eventually becomes St. George's, Grenada[5]
  • March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a General at Sea of the English fleet.[6]
  • Apr 21 – The Maryland Toleration Act is passed in the American colony, allowing all freedom of worship.
  • By May 1 – The Wendat burn 15 of their own villages, to prevent their stores from being taken by the Haudenosaunee. Almost all the remaining people (approximately 10,000) become refugees, on a path that eventually brings them to Wendake.
  • May 17 – The Banbury mutiny in England ends – leaders of the Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged.
  • May 19 – An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Rump Parliament.
  • May 22 – October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.
  • June 1 – Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow.
  • June 1 – Sumuroy Revolt (1649–50) begins in Northern Samar. Agustin Sumuroy, a Waray, and some of his followers revolt over the polo y servicio (forced labor system).

July–December[]

  • August – The Diggers abandon their last major colony at St. George's Hill, Weybridge, England.
  • August 8 – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh completes Book VIII of Leabhar na nGenealach, in Galway, within days of an outbreak of the plague.
  • August 17 – Treaty of Zboriv was signed during the period of Tach V'Tat.
  • August 15 – Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin, to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
  • September 2 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
  • September 3–11 – Siege of Drogheda in Ireland: The New Model Army massacres the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.
  • September 30 – last of the Swedish troops vacate Prague.
  • October 2–11 – Sack of Wexford in Ireland: The New Model Army massacres the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.

Undated[]

  • The town of Kristinestad, named after Queen Christina of Sweden, is founded in Ostrobothnia by Count Per Brahe the Younger.[7][unreliable source?]
  • Mughal–Safavid War (1649–53) begins.
  • Dutch ousted from São Tomé.
  • Qing armies reconquer Jiangxi during Manchu conquest of China.
  • Serfdom in Russia: Sobornoye Ulozhenie (Соборное уложение, "Code of Law") in the Tsardom of Russia gives serfs to estates.
  • Dutch artist Frans Hals paints a portrait of René Descartes.[8]

Births[]

January–March[]

  • January 12 – Jacques Carrey, French painter (d. 1726)
  • January 18
    • William Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1679–1691) (d. 1691)
    • John Waddon, English politician (d. 1695)
  • January 22 – Pascal Collasse, French composer (d. 1709)
  • January 30 – Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart, British politician and nobleman (d. 1727)
  • February 6
    • John Benedict, Connecticut politician and deacon (d. 1729)
    • Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, Consort of Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1728)
  • February 8 – Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
  • February 11 – William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
  • February 16 – Antonio Lupis, prolific Italian writer (d. 1701)
  • February 19 – Daniel Erich, German organist and composer (d. 1712)
  • February 22 – Bon Boullogne, French painter (d. 1717)
  • February 25 – Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque composer (d. 1725)
  • March 2 – Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff, German politician (d. 1726)
  • March 3 – John Floyer, English physician and author (d. 1734)
  • March 12 – Govert Bidloo, Dutch physician, anatomist, poet and playwright (d. 1713)
  • March 13 – Simon Henry, Count of Lippe-Detmold (1666–1697) (d. 1697)
  • March 19 – Marie Morin, New France nun and historian (d. 1730)
  • March 30 – John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)

April–June[]

  • April 5 – Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
  • April 8 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, English diplomat (d. 1710)
  • April 9 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
  • April 11 – Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1704)
  • April 16 – Jan Luyken, Dutch engraver (d. 1712)
  • April 17 – Charles Henri, Prince of Commercy (d. 1723)
  • April 23 – Andreas Kneller, German organist and composer (d. 1724)
  • May 2 – Engel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1683)
  • May 3 – Johann Valentin Meder, German composer (d. 1719)
  • May 4
    • Chhatrasal, Maharaja of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1731)
    • Augustinus Terwesten, 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1711)
      Augustinus Terwesten
  • May 15 – Vincent Bigot, Superior general of the Jesuit mission in Canada (d. 1720)
  • June 13 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)

July–September[]

Chhatrasal

October–December[]

Samuel Carpenter

Date unknown[]

  • Esther Liebmann, German banker (d. 1714)

Deaths[]

Charles I of England died 30 January
Jean de Brébeuf died 16 March
Dodo, Prince Yu died 29 April
Maria Tesselschade Visscher died 20 June
Simon Vouet died 30 June
Vittoria Farnese d'Este died 10 August
Robert Heath died 30 August

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 5 – George Hakewill, English clergyman and author (b. 1578)
  • April 11 – Ambrose Corbie, English Jesuit teacher (b. 1604)
  • April 22 – Marcos de Torres y Rueda, interim viceroy of New Spain (b. 1591)
  • April 24
    • Francesco Ingoli, Italian priest (b. 1578)
    • Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty, French aristocrat and philanthropist (b. 1611)
  • April 29 – Dodo, Prince Yu (b. 1614)
  • May 8 – Gian Giacomo Cristoforo, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lacedonia (b. 1588)
  • May 14
    • Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
    • William Chappell, Irish bishop (b. 1582)
  • May 28 – Empress Xiaoduanwen of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1600)
  • June 3 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
  • June 6 – Vincenzo Carafa, Italian Jesuit priest and spiritual writer (b. 1585)
  • June 17 – Injo of Joseon, sixteenth king of the Joseon dynasty in Korea (b. 1595)
  • June 18 – Juan Martínez Montañés, Spanish sculptor (b. 1568)
  • June 20 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet and engraver (b. 1594)
  • June 30 – Simon Vouet, French painter (b. 1590)
  • June 27 – Chikurin-in, Japanese woman of the late Azuchi-Momoyama through early Edo period (b. 1579)

July–September[]

October–December[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "King Charles II: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  2. ^ Lappeenrannan kaupunki tekniset palvelut ja rakentaminen tekninen toimiala kiinteistö- ja mittausosasto – Fonecta (in Finnish)
  3. ^ Lappeenranta: History
  4. ^ "March 1649 - An Act for the Abolishing the House of Peers". Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  5. ^ "The Town of St. George's - 300 years". Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  6. ^ Baumber, Michael (2004). "Blake, Robert (bap. 1598, d. 1657)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2582. Retrieved August 24, 2010. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  7. ^ Get to known the town: Urban traditions since 1649 – Visit Kristinestad
  8. ^ 19 × 14 cm), currently in National Gallery of Denmark. "Art Renewal Center :: Frans Hals :: René Descartes". artrenewal.org. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  9. ^ Arthur Versluis (September 30, 1999). Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition. SUNY Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7914-4330-9.
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