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.
Famous Birthdays in 1648
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)