Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s - 1650s - 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s

Years: 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649 - 1650 - 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Year in topic 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• 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.
• 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.

• Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)

• 1650 in literature
• 1650 in science

• February 2 - Nell Gwynne, actress, royal mistress (+ 1687).
• May 26 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (+ 1722)
• November 4 - Prince William III of Orange, later Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht and King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland.

• February 11 - René Descartes, philosopher.