1650

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s
Years:	1647 1648 1649 - 1650 - 1651 1652 1653

1650 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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[edit] Events of 1650

April 27 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from the Orkney Islands but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
May - The New Model Army is decimated at the siege of Clonmel .
June 9 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
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.

Palio horseraces.

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.
December 25 - Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel.

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.
Age of Discovery ends.
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]

**1650 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1650 MDCL
Ab urbe condita	2403
Armenian calendar	1099 ԹՎ ՌՂԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-194 – -193
Berber calendar	2600
Buddhist calendar	2194
Burmese calendar	1012
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)
Coptic calendar	1366 – 1367
Ethiopian calendar	1642 – 1643
Hebrew calendar	5410 – 5411
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1705 – 1706
- Shaka Samvat	1572 – 1573
- Kali Yuga	4751 – 4752
Holocene calendar	11650
Iranian calendar	1028 – 1029
Islamic calendar	1059 – 1061
Japanese calendar	Keian 3 (慶安3年)
Korean calendar	3983
Thai solar calendar	2193
v • d • e

February 2 - Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (died 1687)
February 5 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (died 1708)
April 20 - William Bedloe, English informer (died 1680)
May 26 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (died 1722)
August 16 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (died 1718)
September 23 - Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726)
November 14 - King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)
November 7 - John Robinson, English diplomat (died 1723)

February 11 - René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596)
April 18 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (born 1602)
April 21 - Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (born 1607)
May 21 - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (born 1612)
June 18 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (born 1573 or 1575)
June 19 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)
August 25 - Richard Crashaw, English poet (born c. 1613)
October 29 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (born 1575)
November 6 - William II, Prince of Orange (born 1626)
November 24 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (born 1566)
December 31 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (born 1612)
date unknown -
- Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (born 1578)
- John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (born 1567)