1647 Calendar
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1647 Historical Event(s)
March 14, 1647
– Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
May 11, 1647
– Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
May 26, 1647
– Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
August 8, 1647
– The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
Who Were Born On 1647?
January 2, 1647
– Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
January 7, 1647
– Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
March 12, 1647
– Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
April 1, 1647
– John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
April 2, 1647
– Maria Sibylla Merian, German botanist (d. 1717)
June 20, 1647
– John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
July 2, 1647
– Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
August 12, 1647
– Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
September 23, 1647
– Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
November 18, 1647
– Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)