What Happened in November 1648

Historical Events

  • Nov 2 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
  • Nov 11 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands

Peace of Westphalia

Nov 26 Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia; the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War recognising Dutch Republic's Independence and Catholic and Lutherans as equal

Famous Birthdays

  • Nov 27 Petrus Codde, Dutch Roman Catholic apostole vicar (1688-1704), born in Amsterdam (d. 1710)

Famous Deaths

  • Nov 17 Thomas Ford, English composer and lutenist to the royal court, dies (b. 1580)