1651

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Year '1651' ('MDCLI') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday (Julian-1651) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1651

January - June

July - December

Ongoing events

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1651

January - June

★ January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. This is his first crowning.

★ June 28 - June 30: The biggest battle of the 17th century, Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles and Ukrainians, won by Poles.

July - December

★ September 3 - English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

★ October 14 - Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.

★ October- An English diplomatic team headed by Oliver St John went to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the English Commonwealth and the Dutch Republic.

Ongoing events

★ Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)

Undated

★ Keian Uprising fails in Japan.

Births

★ January 3 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)

★ March 4 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1716)

★ March 31 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)

★ April 6 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)

★ April 10 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)

★ April 21 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)

★ April 30 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (d. 1719)

★ May 27 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles (d. 1729)

★ September 1 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)

★ September 16 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)

★ October 21 - Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
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Deaths

★ April 7 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)

★ September 3 - Kösem, sultane and regent of the Ottoman empire

★ September 27 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)

★ October 7 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)

★ October 25 - Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1551)

★ November 20 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)

★ November 26 - Henry Ireton, English Civil War leader (b. 1611)

★ December 14 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)

★ Marubashi Chūya and Yui Shōsetsu (b. 1605), Japanese rebels.
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