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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s |
| Years: | 1646 1647 1648 - 1649 - 1650 1651 1652 |
| 1649 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1649 (MDCXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1649
January - June
- January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. His widow Henrietta Maria returns to her native France.
- January 30 - The Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland. Members of the Long Parliament serve as government.
- January 30 - Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all three Kingdoms do not recognize him as ruler.
- February 5 - In Edinburgh, Scotland claimant King Charles II of England is declared King in his absence. Scotland is the first of the three Kingdoms to recognize his claim to the throne.
- March 11 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
- March 19 - The House of Commons passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
- May 17 - The Banbury mutiny ends - leaders of the Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged.
- May 19 - An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Rump Parliament.
- May - Robert Blake is promoted to become an Admiral of the English fleet.
July - December
- August 8 - Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh completes Book VIII of Leabhar na nGenealach, in Galway, within days of an outbreak of the plague.
- August 15 - Admiral Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert to allow Oliver Cromwell to land in Dublin and begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
- September 2 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
Undated
- Urga is founded (now Mongolia's capital).
- The Digger movement is crushed at St George's Hill.
- The English Interregnum starts.
- The Siege of Drogheda and Sack of Wexford: The beginning of the end for the Irish Catholic Confederation.
Ongoing events
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1649 MDCXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2402 |
| Armenian calendar | 1098 ԹՎ ՌՂԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -195 – -194 |
| Berber calendar | 2599 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2193 |
| Burmese calendar | 1011 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7157 – 7158 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年十一月十九日 (4285/4345-11-19) — to —
己丑年十一月廿八日(4286/4346-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1365 – 1366 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1641 – 1642 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5409 – 5410 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1704 – 1705 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1571 – 1572 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4750 – 4751 |
| Holocene calendar | 11649 |
| Iranian calendar | 1027 – 1028 |
| Islamic calendar | 1058 – 1059 |
| Japanese calendar | Keian 2 (慶安2年) |
| Korean calendar | 3982 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2192 |
- February 2 - Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
- February 8 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
- February 11 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
- April 5 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
- April 9 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
- June 13 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
- July 23 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- September 15 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
- December 7 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
Deaths
- January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (executed) (b. 1600)
- March 9 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
- March 9 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
- March 16 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- March 19 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
- March 26 - John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. c.1587)
- May 14 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
- June 3 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portugues historian and poet (b. 1590)
- September 6 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
- September 15 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
- October 3 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
- October 16 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
- November 19 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
- December 4 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
- December 8 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
- See also Category:1649 deaths.
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