1648

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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

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).

[edit] Events of 1648

Treaty of Munster

Holy Roman Empire 1648

January 17 - England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
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.
January - The Khmelnytsky Uprising in the Republic of Both Nations (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).
April 19 - The Portuguese army defeats the Dutch army in the north of Brazil.

October 20 - The American Indian Battle of Tippycart is fought in the New World.
October 24 - The Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
November 11 - France and the Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.
December 11 - Pride's Purge occurs in England, with elements of the New Model Army, under the leadership of Henry Ireton invading London and expelling a majority of the Long Parliament, resulting in the creation of the Rump Parliament.

Mehmed IV (1648-1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640-1648) as Ottoman Emperor.
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.
Semyon Dezhnev discovers the Bering Strait between Asia and North America.
The west bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) is occupied and looted by Swedish armies.
Sabbatai Zevi declares himself the Messiah at Smyrna.
A major earthquake strikes Van, a town in Ottoman Armenia.
French intervention ends.
The Fronde begins.

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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