1648

1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year beginning on Wednesday, according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 14 June: In Hartford County there is a great storm that knocks down almost all the forests in the area but leaves no casualties.
• The 30-year war is over, the peace of Westphalia is agreed through the Osnabrück Treaty of 15 May, which recognizes the independence and neutrality of Switzerland.
• On October 24, the Netherlands is independent of the Spanish Empire by signing the Münster treaty in the framework of the peace of Westphalia that puts an end to the war of the 80s.
• In France the rebellions of the Fronda begin.
• In the Ottoman Empire, Kösem Sultan declared himself an official regent of the Empire for the second time officially, after presenting his minor grandson Mehmed IV as a Sultan of the Empire.

Art and literature

• Publication Agudeza and art of witBaltasar Gracián.

Births

• April 5: Marcantonio Franceschini, Italian painter (f. 1729).
• August 9: Johann Michael Bach, German organist and composer (f. 1694).
• 7 December: Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (f. 1734).

Deaths

• 28 February:Christian IV of Denmark
• January 23: Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish playwright (n. 1607).
• March 12: Tirso de Molina, Spanish poet.
• August 12: Ibrahim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (n. 1615).
• August 24: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, a Spanish writer, politician and diplomat (n. 1584).
• August 24: António Filipe Camarão, Indígena Brasileño. (n. 1580).
• August 25: Jose de Calasanz, Spanish priest, founder of the Escolapios (n. 1557).
• 15 October: Simone Cantarini, Italian painter (n. 1612).