Major Events
- Jan 20 Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
- Jan 24 Lord Baltimore's representative Margaret Brent ejected from the Maryland Council after requesting right to vote
- Jan 25 French theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet obtains his first thesis in theology with Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, as a witness
- Jan 30 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years' War
- Mar 20 King Charles I of England first tries to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out a window - but gets stuck [1]
- Apr 5 Spanish troops and feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
- Apr 6 Construction of the Red Fort completed at Shahjahanabad, Mughal Empire (now Dehli, India)
- Apr 12 University of Harderwijk opens in the Netherlands
- Apr 29 Beginning of 18 day battle of Zhovti Vody in Ukraine - Polish King John II Casimir eventually defeated by Cossacks
- May 15 Treaty of Munster ratified by Spain & Netherlands
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Who Died in 1648
- Jan 14 Casparus Barleaus, Dutch humanist, theologist and poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63
- Jan 23 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno), dies at 40
- Feb 2 George Abbot, English writer and politician, dies at 44
- Feb 28 Christian IV of Denmark, King of Denmark and Norway (1588-1648), dies at 70
- Mar 12 Tirso de Molina, Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and Roman Catholic monk (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), dies at about 63
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Famous Weddings in 1648
- Oct 28 Future Governor of New France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (28) secretly marries fellow aristocrat Anne de La Grange-Trianon (16)
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