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Year '1648' ('MDCXLVIII') was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1648

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1648

January - June

★ January 17 - England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.

★ January 30 - 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.

★ April 19 - Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army in the north of Brazil.

★ January - Chmielnicki Uprising in Republic of Both Nations (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).

July - December

★ October 24 - Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.

★ November 11 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.

Undated

★ Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ibrahim I (1640-1648) to Mehmed IV (1648-1687)

★ 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 is made 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.

★ A major earthquake strikes Van, a town in the Ottoman Armenia.

Ongoing events

★ English Civil War (1642-1649)

★ Dutch-Portuguese War

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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Bhai Ghanaiya, Indian social worker, founder of modern-day Red Cross(died 1718)
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Deaths

★ February 2 - George Abbot, English writer (born c.1605)

★ February 28 - Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1577)

★ March 12 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (born 1571)

★ March 14 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (born 1584)

★ April 12 - Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (born 1578)

★ May 20 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (born 1595)

★ May 26 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (born 1597)

★ August 12 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1615)

★ August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583)

★ September 1 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (born 1588)

★ November 17 - Thomas Ford, English composer (born c.1580)
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