1647

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

Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s

Years: 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 - 1647 - 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652

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Events

• March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Treaty of Neutrality.
• August 8 - The Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
• Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.

Events of the English Civil War

• Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops
• August: Army marches to London
• December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War

Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642-1649)

Births

• August 22 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine
• Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher

Deaths

• May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian
• Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician\n

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