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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

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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 [edit]

January 27 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is found guilty of treason in a public session. He is beheaded three days later, outside the Banqueting Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London.
January 30
- Following the execution of King Charles I, 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".^[1]
March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a "General at Sea" of the English fleet.^[2]
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.

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.

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 clergyman and plotter (d. 1705)

date unknown – Dionysius Andreas Freher, German mystic (d. 1728)

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 22 – Agostinho Barbosa, Portuguese bishop in Italy and writer on canon law (d. 1589).
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, Portuguese 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)

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