Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 - 1647 - 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652
Events
- March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Treaty of Neutrality.
- August 8 - The Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
- Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused.
- Castle of Aberystwyth razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops
- August: Army marches to London
- December 28, Charles promises church reform. This agreement led to the Second English Civil War
- August 22 - Denis Papin, inventor of the piston steam engine
- Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher
- May 21 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian
- Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician\n