1650

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1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

• April 27 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
• June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.
• August 23 - Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of Coldstream Guards.
• September 3 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650).
• 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 become a true republic.

Unknown dates

• First modern Palio in Siena.
• Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn.
• Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England.
• Jews allowed to return to France and England.
• Cafés begin to become popular in Europe.
• Three-wheeled wheelchairs used in Nuremberg.
• Ann Greene, who had been hanged for infanticide in Edinburgh, wakes up in an autopsy table – she is pardoned.
• Abyssinia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries.
• Einkommende Zeitungen – first German newspaper (cancelled 1918).
• Town of Sharon, Massachusetts is founded.
• Estimation: Istanbul becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.[1]

Ongoing events

• Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)

Births

• February 2 - Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (died 1687)
• February 5 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (died 1708)
• April 20 - William Bedloe, English informer (died 1680)
• May 26 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (died 1722)
• August 16 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (died 1718)
• November 14 - King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)
• November 7 - John Robinson, English diplomat (died 1723)

See also Category:1650 births.

Deaths

• February 11 - René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1595)
• April 18 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (born 1602)
• May 21 - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (born 1612)
• June 18 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (born 1573 or 1575)
• June 19 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)
• August 25 - Richard Crashaw, English poet (born c. 1613)
• October 29 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (born 1575)
• November 6 - William II, Prince of Orange (born 1626)
• November 24 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (born 1566)
• December 31 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (born 1612)
• Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (born 1578)
• Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (born 1607)

See also Category:1650 deaths.