1647 - All About All

1647

Events

• March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• April 3 - In England, letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons
• August 8 - The battle of Dungans Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces.
• August - Peter Stuyvesant appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
• Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.

Events of the English Civil War

• Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops
• August: Army marches to London
• December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War.

Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642-1649)

Births

• 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
• September 23 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1720)
• November 18 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
• 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 12 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
• July 7 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
• July 16 - Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
• August 24 - Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. ])
• October 8 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
• October 25 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1608)
• Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (b. 1598)