1648 Calendar
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1648 Historical Event(s)
January 17, 1648
– England’s Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
January 30, 1648
– Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
May 13, 1648
– Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
May 15, 1648
– The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
June 1, 1648
– The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
June 14, 1648
– Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
October 18, 1648
– Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
October 24, 1648
– The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
December 6, 1648
– Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King’s trial to go ahead; came to be known as “Pride’s Purge”.
Who Were Born On 1648?
January 1, 1648
– Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
February 23, 1648
– Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
April 4, 1648
– Grinling Gibbons Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721)
April 7, 1648
– John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
April 9, 1648
– Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
April 13, 1648
– Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
April 26, 1648
– King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
August 9, 1648
– Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
August 11, 1648
– Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)