1650

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
Decades:
Years:
  • 1647
  • 1648
  • 1649
  • 1650
  • 1651
  • 1652
  • 1653
1650 by topic
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  • Works
1650 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1650
MDCL
Ab urbe condita2403
Armenian calendar1099
ԹՎ ՌՂԹ
Assyrian calendar6400
Balinese saka calendar1571–1572
Bengali calendar1057
Berber calendar2600
English Regnal year1 Cha. 2 – 2 Cha. 2
(Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar2194
Burmese calendar1012
Byzantine calendar7158–7159
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4346 or 4286
    — to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4347 or 4287
Coptic calendar1366–1367
Discordian calendar2816
Ethiopian calendar1642–1643
Hebrew calendar5410–5411
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1706–1707
 - Shaka Samvat1571–1572
 - Kali Yuga4750–4751
Holocene calendar11650
Igbo calendar650–651
Iranian calendar1028–1029
Islamic calendar1059–1061
Japanese calendarKeian 3
(慶安３年)
Javanese calendar1571–1572
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3983
Minguo calendar262 before ROC
民前262年
Nanakshahi calendar182
Thai solar calendar2192–2193
Tibetan calendar阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1776 or 1395 or 623
    — to —
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1777 or 1396 or 624
April 27: Battle of Carbisdale.
September 3: Battle of Dunbar (1650)

1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1650th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 650th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1650, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • April 27 – Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands, but is defeated by a Covenanter army.[1]
  • May 17 – A quarter of the New Model Army at the Siege of Clonmel in Ireland is trapped and killed.
  • June 9 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established (the first legal corporation in the Americas).
  • June 23 – Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth), the only one of the three kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.

July–December[]

  • August 13 – Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards.
  • September 3 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650) – Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell defeat a Scottish army, commanded by David Leslie.[2]
  • September 27 – The Kolumbo volcano on Santorini experiences a massive eruption (VEI 6).
  • September 29 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters, a form of employment exchange, in Threadneedle Street, London.
  • November 4 – William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange at the moment of his birth, succeeding his father, who had died a few days earlier. He does not become stadtholder, so the United Provinces becomes a true republic.
  • December 14 – Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle in England for infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.[3][4][5]
  • December 25 – Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, is hanged as a Royalist rebel.

Date unknown[]

  • The first modern Palio di Siena horserace is held in Italy.
  • Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn in England.
  • English highwayman and Captain James Hind campaigns for the Royalist cause (according to his own account).
  • Jews are allowed to return to France.
  • Three-wheeled wheelchairs are invented in Nuremberg by watchmaker Stephan Farffler.
  • Ethiopia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries.
  • Einkommende Zeitungen becomes the first German newspaper (ceases 1918).
  • The town of Sharon, Massachusetts is founded.
  • Estimation – Istanbul becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.[6][failed verification]

Births[]

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
William III of England

Deaths[]

René Descartes
Prince Dorgon

References[]

  1. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Battle of Carbisdale (BTL19)". Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  2. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Battle of Dunbar II (BTL7)". Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  3. ^ A Scholler in Oxford (1651). Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject. Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield for Tho. Robinson. Includes Latin verses by Christopher Wren.
  4. ^ Hughes, J. Trevor (1982). "Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Green: An Oxford Case Of Resuscitation In The Seventeenth Century". British Medical Journal. 285 (6357): 1792–1793. doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6357.1792. JSTOR 29509089. PMC 1500297. PMID 6816370.
  5. ^ Gowing, Laura (2004). "Greene, Anne (c. 1628–1659)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11413. Retrieved March 14, 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  7. ^ Hastie, Roy (1987). Nell Gwyn. London: R. Hale. p. 15. ISBN 9780709030997.
  8. ^ Chandler, David (1979). Marlborough as military commander. London: Batsford. p. 7. ISBN 9780713420753.
  9. ^ Claydon, Tony (2014). William III. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. p. 9. ISBN 9781317876830.
  10. ^ Åkerman, Susanna (1991). Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth-century philosophical libertine. Leiden New York: E.J. Brill. p. 50. ISBN 9789004246706.
  11. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bradley, Emily Tennyson (1893). "Levinz, Robert". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 161.
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