1650

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.

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Events of 1650

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

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.

★ 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.

★ Ann Greene, who had been hanged for infanticide in Edinburgh, wakes up in an autopsy table – she is 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.[1]

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)
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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)

★ ''date unknown'' - Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (born 1578)
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