1650 Calendar
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1650 Historical Event(s)
- April 27, 1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- June 9, 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
- August 23, 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck’s Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
- September 3, 1650 – Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
- September 29, 1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
Who Were Born On 1650?
- February 2, 1650 – Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687)
- February 5, 1650 – Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)
- April 20, 1650 – William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
- April 27, 1650 – Queen Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1714)
- May 26, 1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
- August 16, 1650 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopedist (d. 1718)
- September 23, 1650 – Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
- October 21, 1650 – Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
- November 7, 1650 – John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
- November 14, 1650 – King William III of England (d. 1702)