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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 - 1647 - 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652
Events
- March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Treaty of Neutrality[?].
- August 8 - The Battle of Dangan Hill[?], Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
- Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.
Events of the English Civil War
- Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops
- August: Army marches to London
- December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War
Births
- August 22 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine
- Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher
Deaths
- May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian
- Bonaventura Cavalieri[?], mathematician
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was, she flung back the cheat in my teeth, and swore I had swindled
She only took me, she said, because I had twenty thousand pounds.
all's fair.
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would take my 2,000L. and depart to some desert island; or, at the
Israelitish brood. There was no use in remaining in the spunging-
that where Mrs. Stubbs owed a hundred pounds, she might owe a
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compliments to Captain Stubbs, and regret that they have been
day with an attachment by Messrs. Solomonson and Co., which compels
the decision of the suit of Solomonson v. Stubbs.
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