1647
Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. August 8 - The battle of Dungans Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces. August - Peter Stuyvesant appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.
Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troopsAugust: Army marches to LondonDecember 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War
Ongoing eventsEnglish Civil War (1642-1649)
BirthsApril 1 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680) August 22 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine November 18 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706) Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher
Deaths May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historianOctober 25 - Evangelista Torricelli Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician
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