What Happened In 1648 - Historical Events 1648

Historical Events for the Year 1648

13th May » Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
15th May » The Peace of Westphalia e.g Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
1st June » The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
15th June » Margaret Jones (Puritan midwife) e.g Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
28th August » Siege of Colchester ended when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the English Civil War.
18th October » Boston Shoemakers form first American Trade union called labor organization.

1st February » Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright (d. 1724)
23rd February » Arabella Churchill (royal mistress) known as Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
4th April » Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor (d. 1721)
7th April » John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1721)
9th April » Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
18th April » Jeanne Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
26th April » Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
9th August » Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
11th August » Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)

14th January » Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch theologian, poet, and historian (b. 1584)
2nd February » George Abbot (author) named George Abbot, English author (b. 1603)
28th February » Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1577)
12th March » Tirso de Molina, Spanish monk and poet (b. 1571)
14th March » Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)
20th May » Władysław IV Vasa, Polish son of Sigismund III Vasa (b. 1595)
26th May » Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
4th July » Antoine Daniel, French missionary and saint (b. 1601)
18th August » Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
20th August » Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1583)
28th August » Charles Lucas, English general (b. 1613)
1st September » Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1588)
17th November » Thomas Ford (composer) known as Thomas Ford, English viol player, composer, and poet (b. 1580)