1650

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1620s  1630s  1640s  – 1650s –  1660s  1670s  1680s
Years:	1647 1648 1649 – 1650 – 1651 1652 1653

1650 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

1650 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1650 MDCL
Ab urbe condita	2403
Armenian calendar	1099 ԹՎ ՌՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	6400
Bengali calendar	1057
Berber calendar	2600
English Regnal year	1 Cha. 2 – 2 Cha. 2 (Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar	2194
Burmese calendar	1012
Byzantine calendar	7158–7159
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4346 or 4286     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4347 or 4287
Coptic calendar	1366–1367
Discordian calendar	2816
Ethiopian calendar	1642–1643
Hebrew calendar	5410–5411
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1706–1707
- Shaka Samvat	1572–1573
- Kali Yuga	4751–4752
Holocene calendar	11650
Igbo calendar	650–651
Iranian calendar	1028–1029
Islamic calendar	1059–1061
Japanese calendar	Keian 3 (慶安３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3983
Minguo calendar	262 before ROC 民前262年
Thai solar calendar	2192–2193

April 27: Battle of Carbisdale.

Palio horse races.

Wheelchair.

Istanbul.

1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1650th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 650th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1650s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1650 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• April 27 – Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
• May – The New Model Army is decimated at the Siege of Clonmel.
• June 9 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established (the first legal corporation in the Americas).
• June 23 – Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth), the only one of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.

July–December

• August 23 – Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards.
• September 3 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650).
• September 27 – The Kolumbo volcano on Santorini experiences a massive eruption (VEI 6).
• September 29 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters (the first historically documented dating service) in Threadneedle Street, London.
• November 4 – William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange the moment of his birth, succeeding his father who had died a few days earlier. He doesn't become stadtholder, so the United Provinces becomes a true republic.
• December 25 – Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, is hanged as a Royalist rebel.

Date unknown

• The first modern Palio horserace is held in Siena.
• Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn.
• Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England.
• Jews are allowed to return to France and England.
• Cafés begin to become popular in Europe.
• Three-wheeled wheelchairs are invented in Nuremberg by watchmaker Stephan Farffler.
• The Age of Discovery ends.
• Ann Greene, who had been hanged for infanticide in Oxford wakes up on an autopsy table; she is pardoned.
• Abyssinia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries.
• Einkommende Zeitungen becomes the first German newspaper (cancelled 1918).
• The town of Sharon, Massachusetts is founded.
• Estimation: Istanbul becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.

Births

• January 1 – George Rooke, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1709)
• January 10 – Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen, Duchess consort of Courland (1682-1688) (d. 1688)
• February 2 – Nell Gwyn, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687)
• February 5 – Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (d. 1708)
• February 26 – Tomás Marín de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa, Royal Governor of Chile (d. 1703)
• February 27 – Jan Verkolje, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
• March 6 – John Conyers (MP born 1650), English politician (d. 1725)
• March 24 – Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, British bishop (d. 1721)
• March 25
  • Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet (d. 1733)
  • Ernest, Count of Stolberg-Ilsenburg, German nobleman (d. 1710)
• April 10 – Sebastiano Antonio Tanara, Catholic cardinal (d. 1724)
• April 15 – Hedwig of the Palatinate-Sulzbach, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1681)
• April 18 – Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1689)
• April 20
  • Felice Boselli, Italian painter (d. 1732)
  • William Bedloe, English fraudster and informer (d. 1680)
• April 27 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Queen Consort of Denmark (1670-1699) (d. 1714)
• May 19 – Cornelis HrR Ridder de Graeff, Dutch nobleman and chief landholder of the Zijpe and Haze Polder (d. 1678)
• May 26 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (d. 1722)
• June 5 – Ogasawara Nagashige, Daimyo (d. 1732)
• June 14 – Carlo Alessandro Guidi (d. 1712)
• June 25 – Joseph Sherman (Massachusetts Bay Colony), American politician (d. 1731)
• July 1 – Maria Anna Vasa, Polish princess (d. 1651)
• July 6 – Frederick Casimir Kettler (d. 1698)
• July 25 – William Burkitt, biblical expositor and vicar in Dedham (d. 1703)
• July 30 – Edward Lewis (Devizes MP), English politician (d. 1674)
• August 7 – Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (d. 1671)
• August 16 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Franciscan monk, Italian cartographer, encyclopedist (d. 1718)
• August 17 – Jean Gaston, Duke of Valois (d. 1652)
• August 27 – Carl Philipp, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum, Prussian field Marshal (d. 1719)
• August 30 – Ludovico Sabbatini, Italian priest (d. 1724)
• September 7 – Juan Manuel María de la Aurora, 8th duke of Escalona, Spanish aristocrat (d. 1725)
• September 14 – Theophilus Oglethorpe, English soldier and MP (d. 1702)
• September 20 – Adrian Beverland, Dutch philosopher and jurist who settled in England (d. 1716)
• September 23 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (d. 1726)
• October 9 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French writer (d. 1723)
• October 10
  • Jane Rolfe, Granddaughter of Pocahontas (d. 1676)
  • Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini, Catholic cardinal (d. 1728)
• October 19 – Charles Erskine, Earl of Mar (d. 1689)
• October 20 – Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, English peer and courtier (d. 1717)
• October 24 – Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist (d. 1704)
• November 4 – King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1702)
• November 7 – John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
• November 14 – William III of England, Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1702)
• November 17 – Joanna Koerten, Dutch painter (d. 1715)
• November 18 – Robert Walpole (1650–1700), English politician (d. 1700)
• November 19 – Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, duke of Saxe-Römhild (d. 1710)
• November 23 – Joseph Oriol (d. 1702)
• November 28 – Jan Palfijn, Flemish surgeon and obstetrician (d. 1730)
• November 30 – Domenico Martinelli, Italian architect (d. 1718)
• December 3 – August of Saxe-Weissenfels (1650–1674), Prince of Saxe-Weissenfels and provost of Magdeburg (d. 1674)
• December 6 – Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian), German Lutheran theologian (d. 1712)
• December 10 – Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1701)
• December 16
  • Alexander Hermann, Count of Wartensleben, Prussian field marshal (d. 1734)
  • Sir Robert Marsham, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1703)
• December 17 – Christoph Arnold, German astronomer (d. 1695)
• December 25 – Claude Aveneau, French missionary (d. 1711)

Deaths

René Descartes

• February 11 – René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
• April 18 – Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (b. 1602)
• April 21 – Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (b. 1607)
• May 21 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (b. 1612)
• June 18 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573 or 1575)
• June 19 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
• August – John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (b. 1567)
• August 25 – Richard Crashaw, English poet (b. c. 1613)
• October 29 – David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
• November 6 – William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
• November 24 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
• December 31 – Dorgon, Manchu prince (b. 1612)
• date unknown – Koçi Bey, Ottoman man of letters

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