1647

Year 1647 (MDCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• March 14 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• April 3 – In England, a letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons.
• May 13 – 1647 Santiago earthquake rattles Chile.
• May 29 – The Rhode Island General Assembly drafts a constitution that separates church and state, and permits public referendums and initiatives on legislation.

July–December

• August
  • The New Model Army marches to London.
  • Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
• August 8 – Battle of Dungan's Hill: Irish forces are defeated by English Parliamentary forces.
• November – Battle of Knocknanauss: An Irish confederate force is destroyed by the army of Parliament; Alasdair MacColla is killed.
• December 28 – King Charles of England promises a church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.

Date unknown

• England's Puritan rulers ban Christmas.
• Johann von Werth tries to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refuse.
• Aberystwyth Castle is razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops.

Births

• January 6 – Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (d. 1721)
• January 6 – William Wall (theologian), English theologian (d. 1728)
• January 7 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
• February 11 – Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode, Princess (d. 1723)
• February 17 – William Hay (bishop), Scottish clergyman and prelate (d. 1707)
• February 18 – Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry, French Benedictine scholar (d. 1724)
• March 1 – John de Brito (d. 1693)
• March 12 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
• March 17 – Johann Wolfgang Jäger, German theologian (d. 1720)
• March 19 – Anna Elisabeth of Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchess consort (d. 1680)
• March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, Cleric–scientist (d. 1724)
• April 1 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English noble, poet, and libertine (d. 1680)
• April 2 – Maria Sibylla Merian, Naturalist, illustrator (d. 1717)
• April 3 – Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, English statesman (d. 1709)
• April 16 – Matthijs Naiveu, Dutch painter (d. 1726)
• April 18 – Elias Brenner, Swedish artist (d. 1717)
• April 26 – William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor of London, 1693-1694 (d. 1720)
• May 20 – Basilius Petritz, German composer and Kreuzkirche (d. 1715)
• June 17 – James Kendall (politician), Soldier; Politician (d. 1708)
• June 19 – Miles Gale, English antiquarian (d. 1721)
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• July 2 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councillor (d. 1730)
• July 8 – Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond (d. 1702)
• July 22 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, Nun, mystic and saint (d. 1690)
• July 23 – Luise Marie of the Palatinate, German princess (d. 1679)
• July 29 – Carl Piper, Swedish politician (d. 1716)
• August 4 – Giovanni II Cornaro, Venetian nobleman and statesman (d. 1722)
• August 12 – Eberhard Werner Happel, Author (d. 1690)
• August 12 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
• August 22 – Denis Papin, French inventor (d. 1712)
• August 28 – Erik Carlsson Sjöblad, Swedish governor, admiral, and baron (d. 1725)
• August 31 – Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch, young Scottish peeress (d. 1661)
• September 1 – Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1717)
• September 4 – Gerhard Noodt, Dutch lawyer (d. 1725)
• September 23 – Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1720)
• September 23 – Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1709)
• October 3 – Johannes Voet, Dutch legal scholar (d. 1713)
• November 11 – Johannes Voorhout, Dutch painter (d. 1723)
• November 11 – Johann Wilhelm Baier (d. 1695)
• November 18 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
• November 20 – Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (d. 1733)
• November 26 – Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1671-1680) (d. 1680)
• November 27 – Badr-un-Nissa, daughter of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and Nawab Bai (d. 1670)
• December 4 – Daniel Eberlin, German composer (d. 1715)
• December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (d. 1734)
• December 7 – Francesco del Giudice, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1725)
• December 11 – David van der Plas, Dutch painter (d. 1704)
• December 11 – Jacob Johan Hastfer, Swedish officer, governor of Livonia (d. 1695)
• December 22 – Nicholas Noyes, colonial minister in Salem (d. 1717)
• December 30 – Jean Martianay, French Benedictine scholar (d. 1717)
• date unknown – Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher (d. 1710)
• date unknown – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (d. 1688)

Deaths

• January 29 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
• March 14 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• March 29 – Charls Butler, English beekeeper and philologist (b. 1560)
• May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian (b. 1581)
• June 2 – Christian, Prince Elect of Denmark, Danish prince (b. 1603)
• June 12 – Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. c. 1575)
• July 7 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
• July 16 – Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
• August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
• October 8 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
• October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1608)
• November 30 – Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (b. 1598)^[1]

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