Explore 160 historical events from 1650–1659.
Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire, and a Marshal from 1620 until his death.
Jacob De la Gardie, Estonian-Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (born 1583)
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron was an English politician and army officer who fought on the Royalist side during the English Civil War.
John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (born 1600)
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia comprising primarily the island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, which has an area of 35,808 km2 (13,…
Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
Joseph Vaz CO was a Oratorian priest and missionary in Dutch Ceylon. Originally from Sancoale in Goa, Portuguese India, Vaz arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, a time wh…
Joseph Vaz, Sri Lankan priest, missionary, and saint (died 1711)
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and…
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and saint (died 1719)
Louis Antoine de Noailles, Cardinal de Noailles, second son of Anne de Noailles, 1st Duke of Noailles, was a French bishop and cardinal. His signing of the Unigenitus bull in 1728 …
Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (died 1729)
Ferdinand Tobias Richter was a Baroque composer and organist from the Holy Roman Empire.
Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (died 1711)
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, P.S.S., more commonly known as François Fénelon, was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mo…
François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (died 1715)
The Battle of Berestechko was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the si…
The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of…
The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory
The Venetian navy was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Me…
The Venetian fleet under Alvise Mocenigo engages with an Ottoman fleet under Hosambegzade Ali Pasha south of Naxos,…
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 in and around the city of Worcester, England and was the last major battle of the 1642 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A …
The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circu…
William Dampier, explorer, navigator and buccaneer (died 1715)
William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circu…
William Dampier, English explorer (died 1715)
Engelbert Kaempfer was a German naturalist, physician, explorer, and writer known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, Siam and Japan between 1683 and 1693.
Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and botanist (died 1716)
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in …
Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1594)
Prince Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, nicknamed Hammer on the Cossacks, was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince of Vyshnivets, Lu…
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Polish nobleman (born 1612)
Tokugawa Iemitsu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the third shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty. He was the eldest son of Tokugawa Hidetada with Oeyo, and the grandson of Tokugawa Ie…
Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (born 1604)
Kösem Sultan, also known as Mahpeyker Sultan, was the Haseki Sultan as a favorite consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim, and grandmother …
Kosem Sultan, Ottoman Valide sultan and regent (born 1589)
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms is the collective term for a series of conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in England, Scotland and Ireland, then separate entities in a personal …
Wars of the Three Kingdoms: After crossing the Firth of Forth, English Commonwealth forces defeated a Scottish army at…
The Parliamentarians, commonly called Roundheads by their enemies and in modern historiography, were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–…
English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell (pictured) won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the…
The Battle of Carbisdale took place close to the village of Culrain, Sutherland, Scotland on 27 April 1650 and was part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought by the Roya…
The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle was a professional soldier from Devon who fought on both sides during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A prominent military figure under the Comm…
Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
The Battle of Dunbar was fought between the English New Model Army, under Oliver Cromwell, and a Scottish army commanded by David Leslie on 3 September 1650 near Dunbar, Scotland. …
Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third…