1650 Totally Explained

Everything about 1650 totally explained

Year 1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, or a common year starting on Tuesday (Julian-1650

) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events of 1650

January - June

April 27 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
May - The New Model Army is decimated at the siege of Clonmel .
June 9 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.

July - December

August 23 - Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of Coldstream Guards.

September 3 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650).

September 29 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.

November 4 - William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange the moment of his birth, succeeding his father who had died a few days earlier. He doesn't become stadtholder, so the United Provinces become a true republic.

December 25 - Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.

Undated

First modern Palio in Siena.

Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn.

Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England.

Jews allowed to return to France and England.

Cafés begin to become popular in Europe.

Three-wheeled wheelchairs used in Nuremberg.

Age of Discovery ends.

Ann Greene, who had been hanged for infanticide in Edinburgh, wakes up in an autopsy table – she's pardoned.

Abyssinia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries.

Einkommende Zeitungen – first German newspaper (cancelled 1918).

Town of Sharon, Massachusetts is founded.

Estimation: Istanbul becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.(External Link

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Ongoing events

Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653).

Births

February 2 - Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (died 1687)

February 5 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (died 1708)

April 20 - William Bedloe, English informer (died 1680)

May 26 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (died 1722)

August 16 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (died 1718)

September 23 - Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726)

November 14 - King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)

November 7 - John Robinson, English diplomat (died 1723)

Deaths

February 11 - René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596)

April 18 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (born 1602)

April 21 - Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (born 1607)

May 21 - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (born 1612)

June 18 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (born 1573 or 1575)

June 19 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)

August 25 - Richard Crashaw, English poet (born c. 1613)

October 29 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (born 1575)

November 6 - William II, Prince of Orange (born 1626)

November 24 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (born 1566)

December 31 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (born 1612)

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Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (born 1578)
John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (born 1567)

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