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Years:
1644 1645 1646 - 1647 - 1648 1649 1650
Decades:
1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1647 in literature
1647 in science

Events

  • March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
  • August 8 - The Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces.
  • August - Peter Stuyvesant appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
  • Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.
  • Events of the English Civil War

  • Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops
  • August: Army marches to London
  • December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War
  • Ongoing events

  • English Civil War (1642-1649)
  • Births

  • April 1 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
  • August 22 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine
  • Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher
  • Deaths

  • May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian
  • October 25 - Evangelista Torricelli
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician
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