1649

This article is about the year 1649.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1610s  1620s  1630s  – 1640s –  1650s  1660s  1670s
Years:	1646 1647 1648 – 1649 – 1650 1651 1652

1649 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1649 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1649 MDCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2402
Armenian calendar	1098 ԹՎ ՌՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6399
Bahá'í calendar	-195–-194
Bengali calendar	1056
Berber calendar	2599
English Regnal year	24 Cha. 1 – 1 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2193
Burmese calendar	1011
Byzantine calendar	7157–7158
Chinese calendar	戊子年十一月十九日 (4285/4345-11-19) — to — 己丑年十一月廿八日 (4286/4346-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1365–1366
Ethiopian calendar	1641–1642
Hebrew calendar	5409–5410
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1705–1706
- Shaka Samvat	1571–1572
- Kali Yuga	4750–4751
Holocene calendar	11649
Iranian calendar	1027–1028
Islamic calendar	1058–1059
Japanese calendar	Keian 2 (慶安2年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3982
Minguo calendar	263 before ROC 民前263年
Thai solar calendar	2192

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

Events

January–June

• January 30
  • King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded for treason outside the Banqueting Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London. Start of the Interregnum in England.
  • 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.
  • Charles, Prince of Wales declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time, none of the three kingdoms recognize him as ruler.^{[citation needed]}
• 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 rebel Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
• March 19 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
• March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a "General at Sea" of the English fleet.
• May 17 – The Banbury mutiny in England 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 22–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.

July–December

• August – The Diggers abandon their last major colony at St. George's Hill, Weybridge, England.
• August 8 – Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh completes Book VIII of Leabhar na nGenealach, in Galway, within days of an outbreak of the plague.
• August 15 – Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
• September 2 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
• September 3–11 – Siege of Drogheda in Ireland: New Model Army massacre the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.
• October 2–11 – Sack of Wexford in Ireland: New Model Army massacre the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.

Date unknown

• Urga is founded (now Mongolia's capital).^{[citation needed]}

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• January 30 – King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (executed) (b. 1600)
• March 9 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
• March 9 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
• March 16 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
• March 19 – Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
• March 26 – John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. c. 1587)
• May 14 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
• June 3 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portugues historian and poet (b. 1590)
• September 6 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
• September 15 – John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
• October 3 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
• October 16 – Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• November 19 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
• December 4 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
• December 7 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
• December 8 – Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)