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Months in Year 1649: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 12 of 12

Jan 5th - Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
Jan 6th - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
Feb 5th - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
Mar 11th - Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
Mar 11th - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
Apr 21st - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
May 19th - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
Jun 1st - Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
Sep 2nd - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
Sep 11th - Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
Sep 11th - Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred
Sep 30th - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 22nd - Pascal Collasse, composer
Feb 2nd - Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30)
Feb 8th - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
Feb 11th - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
Feb 23rd - John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
Feb 27th - Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
Apr 3rd - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
Apr 5th - Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
Apr 9th - James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II
Apr 23rd - Andreas Kneller, composer
May 3rd - Johann Valentin Meder, composer
Jun 13th - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
Jul 22nd - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italy, Pope (1700-21)
Sep 15th - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 30 of 30

Jan 30th - Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
Mar 9th - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
Mar 9th - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
Mar 16th - St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
Mar 17th - Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71
Mar 17th - Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
Mar 19th - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
Mar 26th - John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies
Apr 5th - John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61
May 12th - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
May 14th - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
Jun 3rd - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
Jun 20th - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
Jun 30th - Simon Vouet, French painter
Jul 11th - Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
Jul 29th - David Teniers I, Flemish painter (altaar stukken), dies
Aug 2nd - Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78
Aug 25th - Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36
Sep 6th - Famiano Strada, Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77
Sep 6th - Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies
Sep 15th - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
Sep 28th - Ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79
Oct 3rd - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
Oct 16th - Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried
Oct 24th - Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Neth diplomat, dies at about 89
Nov 19th - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
Dec 4th - Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
Dec 4th - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
Dec 7th - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
Dec 8th - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)