1650

Years:
1647 1648 1649 - 1650 - 1651 1652 1653

Decades:
1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1650 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

**1650 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1650 MDCL
Ab urbe condita	2403
Armenian calendar	1099 ԹՎ ՌՂԹ
Chinese calendar	4286/4346-11-29 (己丑年十一月廿九日) — to — 4287/4347-intercalary 11-9 (庚寅年閏十一月初九日)
Ethiopian calendar	1642 – 1643
Hebrew calendar	5410 – 5411
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1705 – 1706
- Shaka Samvat	1572 – 1573
- Kali Yuga	4751 – 4752
Iranian calendar	1028 – 1029
Islamic calendar	1060 – 1061
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2310 (皇紀2310年)
- Jōmon Era	11650
Thai solar calendar	2193

1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

April 27 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler.
August 23 - Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of Coldstream Guards.
September 3 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650).
September 29 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.
November 4 - William III of Orange becomes Prince of the House of Orange the moment of his birth, succeeding his father who had died a few days earlier. He doesn't become stadtholder, so the United Provinces become a true republic.

First modern Palio in Siena.
Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn.
Captain James Hind makes an abortive attempt to seize power in England.
Jews allowed to return to France and England.
Cafés begin to become popular in Europe.
Three-wheeled wheelchairs used in Nuremberg.
Ann Greene, who had been hanged for infanticide in Edinburgh, wakes up in an autopsy table – she is pardoned.
Abyssinia deports Portuguese diplomats and missionaries.
Einkommende Zeitungen – first German newspaper (cancelled 1918).
Town of Sharon, Massachusetts is founded.
Estimation: Istanbul becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.[1]