1648 - All About All

1648

Events

• Peace treaty signed at Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
• Chmielnicki Uprising in Republic of Both Nations (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).
• 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. The Netherlands becomes the first European power with a republican form of government.
• November 11 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ibrahim I (1640-1648) to Mehmed IV (1648-1687)
• The Rump Parliament finds Charles I guilty of treason, and sentences him to be executed.
• 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.
• Discovery of strait (Bering Strait) between Asia and North America by Semyon Dezhnev
• The west bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) occupied and looted by Swedish armies.
• Sabbatai Zevi declares himself the Messiah at Smyrna.

Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642-1649)

Births

• 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)
• John Blow, British composer (d. 1708)

Deaths

• February 2 - George Abbot, English writer
• February 28 - Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
• March 12 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer
• March 14 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
• 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