1649

Years:
1646 1647 1648 - 1649 - 1650 1651 1652

Decades:
1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1649 by topic:
Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

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.

Robert Blake is promoted to become an Admiral of the English fleet
August 15 - Admiral Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert to allow Oliver Cromwell to land in Dublin and 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.
Unknown date - Urga founded (now Mongolian capital)

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)
December 8 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)

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)
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)