1647

1647 (MDCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1647th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 647th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1647, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1647 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1647
MDCXLVII
Ab urbe condita2400
Armenian calendar1096
ԹՎ ՌՂԶ
Assyrian calendar6397
Balinese saka calendar1568–1569
Bengali calendar1054
Berber calendar2597
English Regnal year22 Cha. 1  23 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2191
Burmese calendar1009
Byzantine calendar7155–7156
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4344 or 4137
     to 
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4345 or 4138
Coptic calendar1363–1364
Discordian calendar2813
Ethiopian calendar1639–1640
Hebrew calendar5407–5408
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1703–1704
 - Shaka Samvat1568–1569
 - Kali Yuga4747–4748
Holocene calendar11647
Igbo calendar647–648
Iranian calendar1025–1026
Islamic calendar1056–1057
Japanese calendarShōhō 4
(正保4年)
Javanese calendar1568–1569
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3980
Minguo calendar265 before ROC
民前265年
Nanakshahi calendar179
Thai solar calendar2189–2190
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
1773 or 1392 or 620
     to 
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
1774 or 1393 or 621
November 13: Battle of Knocknanuss

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 3 In England, a letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons.
  • May 13 The 1647 Santiago earthquake rattles Chile.
  • May 24 The Marquis of Argyll and David Leslie join forces to defeat Alasdair MacColla, at Rhunahoarine Point in Kintyre. MacColla flees to Ireland; his followers are massacred.[8]
  • June 6 Michael Jones, named Governor of Dublin by England's Parliamentarians, lands with 2,000 troops and begins the expulsion of Catholics and the arrest of Protestant royalists.
  • June 8 The Puritan rulers of England's Long Parliament pass the "Ordinance for abolishing all Holidays, and appointing other Days for Sports and Recreations for Scholars, Apprentices, and Servants, in their Room", confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun, though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday. The Act declares "Forasmuch as the Feasts of the Nativity of Christ, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and other Festivals, commonly called Holidays, have heretofore been superstitiously used and observed; be it ordained, That the said Feasts and Festivals be no loner observed within England and Wales." [9][10]
  • June 10 The Battle of Puerto de Cavite begins in the Spanish Philippines when an armada of 12 large warships from the Dutch Republic sails into Manila Bay, with cannon fire hitting many of the roofs of the city. The Spanish defending fleet drives off the Dutch after a two day battle.
  • June 16 Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, is crowned as the King of Hungary and Croatia at Pressburg, now the Slovakian capital of Bratislava
  • June 19 The Duke of Ormond, the royalist governor of Dublin, concludes a treaty with the English Commonwealth's Earl of Anglesey, handing over control of Dublin to the Commonwealth in return for the English promise to protect the interests of royalists, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, who had not joined in the Irish Rebellion.
  • June 25 The "Remonstrance of The Army" is presented to the English parliament by former Royal Army supporters of King Charles I, pledging their loyalty to the new English Commonwealth.

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

  • October 28 The Putney Debates, a series of discussions between officers of the New Model Army following Parliament's military defeat of the absolutist monarchy of King Charles, begin at the St. Mary's Church, Putney about what form of government would replace the monarchy in the new republican Commonwealth of England.
  • November 13 Battle of Knocknanuss: An Irish confederate force is destroyed by the army of Parliament; Alasdair MacColla is killed.
  • November 15 Henry of Guise lands in Naples, to become the leader of the Neapolitan Republic.
  • December 28 King Charles of England promises a church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.

Date unknown

Births

Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius
Matthijs Naiveu

JanuaryMarch

  • January 2 Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist, rebel (d. 1676)
  • January 6
    • Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1666–1720) (d. 1721)
    • William Wall, English theologian (d. 1728)
  • January 7 Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
  • February 11 Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode, by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (d. 1723)
  • February 17
    • William Hay, Scottish clergyman and prelate (d. 1707)
    • Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius, German lawyer (d. 1720)
  • February 18 Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry, French Benedictine scholar (d. 1724)
  • March 1 John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1693)
  • March 12 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French soldier and general (d. 1727)
  • March 17 Johann Wolfgang Jäger, German theologian (d. 1720)
  • March 19 Anna Elisabeth of Anhalt-Bernburg, duchess consort of Württemberg-Bernstadt (d. 1680)
  • March 20 Jean de Hautefeuille, French cleric, scientist (d. 1724)

AprilJune

  • April 1 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court (d. 1680)[16]
  • April 2 Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator (d. 1717)
  • April 3 Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, English statesman (d. 1709)
  • April 16 Matthijs Naiveu, Dutch painter (d. 1726)
  • April 18 Elias Brenner, Finnish artist (d. 1717)
  • April 26 William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor of London (1693–1694) (d. 1720)
  • May 20 Basilius Petritz, German composer and Kreuzkirche (d. 1715)
  • June 3 Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg, German noblewoman, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels (d. 1687)
  • June 17 James Kendall, English soldier, politician (d. 1708)
  • June 19 Miles Gale, English antiquarian (d. 1721)
  • June 20 John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
  • June 22 Ivan Ratkaj, Croatian Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1683)

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

  • October 3 Johannes Voet, Dutch legal scholar (d. 1713)
  • November 11
  • November 18 Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)[17]
  • November 20 Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (d. 1733)
  • November 26 Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1671–1680) (d. 1680)
  • November 27 Badr-un-Nissa, daughter of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and Nawab Bai (d. 1670)
  • November 28 Constantin Marselis, Danish baron (d. 1699)
  • December 4 Daniel Eberlin, German composer (d. 1715)
  • December 7
    • Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (d. 1734)
    • Francesco del Giudice, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1725)
  • December 11
    • Jacob Johan Hastfer, Swedish officer, governor of Livonia (d. 1695)
    • David van der Plas, Dutch painter (d. 1704)
  • December 22 Nicholas Noyes, Massachusetts colonial minister, during the time of the Salem witch trials (d. 1717)
  • December 30 Jean Martianay, French Benedictine scholar (d. 1717)

Date unknown

Deaths

References

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