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)