1649

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Year 1649 (MDCXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1649

January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. His widow Henrietta Maria resides in her native France.
January 30 - The Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland. Members of the Long Parliament serve as government.
January 30 - Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all three Kingdoms had not recognized him as ruler.
February 5 - In Edinburgh, Scotland claimant King Charles II of England is declared King in his absence. Scotland is the first of the three Kingdoms to recognize his claim to the throne.
March 11 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
March 19 - The House of Commons pass an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
May 17 - Banbury mutiny ends - leaders of the Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged
May 19 - An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Rump Parliament.
May - Robert Blake is promoted to become an Admiral of the English fleet

Urga is founded (now Mongolian capital).
Digger movement crushed at St George's Hill.
English Interregnum starts.
The Siege of Drogheda and Sack of Wexford: The begining of the end for the Irish Catholic Confederation.

February 2 - Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
February 8 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
February 11 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
April 5 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
April 9 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
June 13 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
July 23 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
September 15 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
December 7 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)

January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (executed) (born [[16
March 9 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (born 1606)
March 9 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (born 1590)
March 16 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (born 1593)
March 19 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (born 1577)
March 26 - John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born c.1587)
May 14 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (born 1600)
June 3 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portugues historian and poet (born 1590)
September 6 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (born 1574)
September 15 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (born 1572)
October 3 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (born 1576)
October 16 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (born 1621)
November 19 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (born 1576)
December 4 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (born 1585)
December 8 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (born 1613)

See also Category:1649 deaths.af:1649