Events Date 1648 | History by KabAstro

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

Bossuet's First Thesis

Jan 25 French theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet obtains his first thesis in theology with Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, as a witness

Bishop and Writer Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jan 30 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years' War

Charles I's Failed Escape

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
May 16 Battle of Zhovti Vody: Ukrainian Cossacks, commanded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Crimean Tatars led by Tuhaj Bej, defeat Polish King John II Casimir, after 18 days of battle
May 17 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
May 29 King Charles I of England attempts to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, for second time by hacksawing through a barred window but caught in the act [1]
Jun 10 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
Jun 24 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
Jun 30 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
Jul 22 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising
Aug 17 -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
Aug 20 Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
Aug 25 Siege of Deal Castle ends in the surrender of Royalist supporters to Parliamentarians during the Second English Civil War [1]
Aug 26 People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
Sep 19 First inn opens in New France, a pastry shop and hostelry in Québec owned by Jacques Boisdon [1]
Sep 21 Beginning of the Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks defeat the Polish army of John Casimir II (battle ends 23 Sept) [NS]
Oct 4 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer fire service
Oct 18 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
Oct 24 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized
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