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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1610s  1620s  1630s  - 1640s -  1650s  1660s  1670s
Years:	1645 1646 1647 - 1648 - 1649 1650 1651

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Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1648 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

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

• 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.

• 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.

• English Civil War (1642-1649)
• Dutch-Portuguese War

1648 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1648 MDCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2401
Armenian calendar	1097 ԹՎ ՌՂԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-196 – -195
Buddhist calendar	2192
Chinese calendar	4284/4344-12-7 (丁亥年十二月初七日) — to — 4285/4345-11-18 (戊子年十一月十八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1640 – 1641
Hebrew calendar	5408 – 5409
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1703 – 1704
- Shaka Samvat	1570 – 1571
- Kali Yuga	4749 – 4750
Holocene calendar	11648
Iranian calendar	1026 – 1027
Islamic calendar	1057 – 1058
Japanese calendar	Shōhō 5 (正保5年) — changed to — Keian 1 (慶安元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2308 (皇紀2308年)
- Jōmon Era	11648
Julian calendar	1693
Korean calendar	3981
Thai solar calendar	2191
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• 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)

• John Blow, British composer (d. 1708)

See also Category:1648 births.

• 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)
• 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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See also Category:1648 deaths.