11th » Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Catholic Confederation named Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
19th » New Ross e.g New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
Famous Deaths for October 1649
3rd » Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian clergyman and theologian (b. 1576)