1648
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 - 1648 - 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653
Events
- Peace treaty signed at Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War.
- The English Parliament finds Charles I guilty of treason, and sentences him to be executed.
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ibrahim I (1640-1648) to Mehmed IV (1648-1687)
- 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. The Netherlands becomes the first european power with a republican form of government.
Births
Deaths
- May 26 - Vincent Voiture, poet
dishes," and then sent to Antwerp to be examined by the states-general.
for his neck. Interrogated by Leoninus on the part of the central
Walloon estates, and particularly upon their ecclesiastical branches,
flayed, but not shorn." Those who were more attached to their skin than
Duke still more objectionable. Such was not the opinion of the Prior and
duresse, the busy ecclesiastic was released; and as his secret labors had
ever.
A triangular intrigue was now fairly established in the Walloon country.
the royalist faction was with La Motte at Gravelines; while the
Artois, and supposed to be supreme in Arras. La Motte was provided by
to be very liberal in his bribes to men of distinction; having a tender
upon the royal purse. The "little Count," as the Prior called Lalain,
desirable acquisitions for government, if they could be gained. It was
upon their hearts," for the effect produced upon Lalain, governor of
also had been disposed to favor the French prince, but his mind.html">mind was more
course of ecclesiastical tuition from the Prior--whose golden opinions
chieftain's mind. Other leading seigniors were secretly dealt with in
Viscount of Ghent, all seriously inclined their ears to the charmer, and
before them--"to mischief swift." Few had yet declared themselves; but
with their order was paramount, none were safe for the patriot cause
church and king, but in the city of Arras, the capital of the whole
great wealth, one of the most distinguished advocates in the Netherlands,
the leader of this burgess faction. In the earlier days of Parma's
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