1651

1651 (MDCLI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1651st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 651st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1651, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1651 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1651
MDCLI
Ab urbe condita2404
Armenian calendar1100
ԹՎ ՌՃ
Assyrian calendar6401
Balinese saka calendar1572–1573
Bengali calendar1058
Berber calendar2601
English Regnal year2 Cha. 2  3 Cha. 2
(Interregnum)
Buddhist calendar2195
Burmese calendar1013
Byzantine calendar7159–7160
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4347 or 4287
     to 
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4348 or 4288
Coptic calendar1367–1368
Discordian calendar2817
Ethiopian calendar1643–1644
Hebrew calendar5411–5412
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1707–1708
 - Shaka Samvat1572–1573
 - Kali Yuga4751–4752
Holocene calendar11651
Igbo calendar651–652
Iranian calendar1029–1030
Islamic calendar1061–1062
Japanese calendarKeian 4
(慶安4年)
Javanese calendar1572–1573
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3984
Minguo calendar261 before ROC
民前261年
Nanakshahi calendar183
Thai solar calendar2193–2194
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1777 or 1396 or 624
     to 
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1778 or 1397 or 625
St. Peter's Flood
September 3: Battle of Worcester

Events

JanuaryMarch

  • January 1 Charles II is crowned King of Scots at Scone (his first crowning).[1]
  • January 24 Parliament of Boroa in Chile: Spanish and Mapuche authorities meet at Boroa, renewing the fragile peace established at the parliaments of Quillín, in 1641 and 1647.[2][3]
  • February 22 St. Peter's Flood: A first storm tide in the North Sea strikes the coast of Germany, drowning thousands. The island of Juist is split in half, and the western half of Buise is probably washed away.
  • March 4 St. Peter's Flood: Another storm tide in the North Sea strikes the Netherlands, flooding Amsterdam.
  • March 6 The town of Kajaani was founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger.[4]
  • March 15 Prince Aisin Gioro Fulin attains the age of 13 and becomes the Shunzhi Emperor of China, which had been governed by a regency since the death of his father Hong Taiji in 1643.
  • March 26 The Spanish ship San José, loaded with silver is pushed south by strong winds, it wrecks on the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew is killed by indigenous Cuncos.[5][6]

AprilJune

JulySeptember

  • July 20 At the Battle of Inverkeithing in Scotland, the English Parliamentarian New Model Army, under Major-General John Lambert, defeats a Scottish Covenanter army acting on behalf of Charles II, led by Sir John Brown of Fordell.
  • August 13 The troops of King Charles II of Scotland force the retreat of English Commonwealth troops at the Battle of Warrington Bridge, the last victory of Scotland over England in battle.
  • August 28
    • The "Onfall of Alyth takes place in the Scottish town of the same name when most of the members of Scotland's governing body, the Committee of States, are betrayed to English invaders. The Earl of Leven, the Earl of Crawford, the Earl Marischal, Lord Nairne and other prominent people are captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London. [8]
    • The Battle of Upton is fought at Upton-upon-Severn in England, where Scottish invaders commanded by Major General Edward Massey are defeated by the English Parliamentarians led by John Lambert. The retreat of the Scots clears the way for the successful English attack at Worcester.
  • September 1 The siege of Dundee ends with the English Parliamentarian army, under General Monck, decisively defeating Covenanters in the last battle of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland.
  • September 2 Kösem Sultan is assassinated by her daughter-in-law, Turhan Sultan.
  • September 3 Charles II of England, leading a largely-Scottish army, is defeated in the Battle of Worcester, the last major battle of the English Civil War, and forced to flee.

OctoberDecember

  • October 14 Laws are passed in Massachusetts, forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
  • October 16 Prince Charles of the House of Stuart escapes from England to find refuge in France.[9]
  • October An English diplomatic team, headed by Oliver St John, goes to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic.
  • November 3 The Manx Rebellion of 1651 comes to an end as the Countess of Derby surrenders the Isle of Man to the forces of Oliver Cromwell in return for a guarantee of safe passage for herself, her family and her servants, off of the island.
  • December 17 Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders.

Date unknown

  • The Keian Uprising fails in Japan.
  • The first coffee house in England is opened in Oxford,[9] indicative of their increasing popularity in Europe.
  • The Madanmohan-jiu Temple is built at Samta (India), a village in the Howrah district of West Bengal.

Births

William Phips
Margaret Theresa of Spain
  • January 9 Petronio Franceschini, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1680)
  • January 18 William Coddington, Jr., Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1689)
  • January 19 Johannes Wolfgang von Bodman, German bishop (d. 1691)
  • January 20 Edward Tyson, British scientist (d. 1708)
  • February 2 or 1950 William Phips, first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1695)
  • February 9 Procopio Cutò, French entrepreneur (d. 1727)
  • February 11 Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Middleton, English politician (d. 1716)
  • February 11 Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (d. 1732)
  • February 21 Silvius II Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d. 1697)
  • February 25 Quirinus Kuhlmann, German Baroque poet and mystic (d. 1689)
  • February 26 Pieter van der Hulst, Dutch painter (d. 1727)
  • March 2 Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (d. 1730)
  • March 4 John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1716)
  • March 31 Karl II, Elector Palatine of Germany (d. 1685)
  • April 2 Fabrizio Paolucci, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1726)
  • April 6 André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
  • April 10 Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)
  • April 17 Giuseppe Archinto, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1712)
  • April 21 Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
  • April 30 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (d. 1719)
  • May 17 Jacques Gravier, French Jesuit missionary in the New World (d. 1708)
  • May 27 Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French bishop (d. 1729)
  • June 6 Willem van Ingen, Dutch painter (d. 1708)
  • June 10 Alexander Edward, Scottish landscape architect (d. 1708)
  • June 21 William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1670)
  • July 4 Honoratus a Sancta Maria, French Discalced Carmelite (d. 1729)
  • July 12 Margaret Theresa of Spain (d. 1673)
  • July 22 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer (d. 1711)
  • July 26 Jacques Bigot (Jesuit), French Jesuit priest, missionary to the Abenakis in Canada (d. 1711)
  • August 6 François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, France (d. 1715)
  • August 6 Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Swedish Field Marshal (d. 1722)
  • August 13 Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor (d. 1732)
  • August 25 François Baert, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1719)
  • September 1 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
  • September 2 Zubdat-un-Nissa, Mughal princess, daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb (d. 1707)
  • September 5 William Dampier, English explorer (d. 1715)
  • September 6 Aoyama Tadao, Japanese daimyō (d. 1685)
  • September 16 Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
  • September 26 Francis Daniel Pastorius, German founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1720)
  • October 24 Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist (d. 1723)
  • October 26 Perizonius, Dutch linguist (d. 1715)
  • November 1 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, French politician (d. 1690)
  • November 12 Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican nun, writer and poet (d. 1695)
  • December 25 Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal (d. 1710)
  • December 28 Johann Krieger, German composer and organist (d. 1735)
  • date unknown Gorgin Khan, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1709)

Deaths

Tokugawa Iemitsu
Philippus Rovenius
  • January Thomas Greene, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1609)
  • January 22 Johannes Phocylides Holwarda, Dutch astronomer (b. 1618)
  • January 29 Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (b. 1586)
  • February 6 Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Hereditary Margrave (b. 1615)
  • February 8 Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport, English politician (b. 1587)
  • February 9 Herman Krefting, Norwegian businessman (b. 1592)
  • March 11 Alvise Contarini, Italian diplomat, nobleman (b. 1597)
  • April 1 John of Hesse-Braubach, German general (b. 1609)
  • April 7 Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (b. 1603)
  • April 10 Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
  • May 16 Sophie of Solms-Laubach, wife of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1594)
  • May 26 Jeane Gardiner, British woman executed for witchcraft in Bermuda
  • May 28 Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (b. 1594)
  • June 8 Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1604)
  • June 16 Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1714)
  • June 17
    • Roger North, English politician (b. 1577)
    • Francesco Piccolomini, Italian Jesuit (b. 1582)
  • July 7 Dina Vinhofvers, Danish alleged conspirator (b. 1620)
  • August 1 Maria Anna Vasa, Polish princess (b. 1650)
  • August 2 Ercole, Marquis of Baux, member of the House of Grimaldi (b. 1623)
  • August 8 Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, regent of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1602)
  • August 16 Filippo Benedetto de Sio, Italian Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1585)
  • August 20 Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Polish nobleman (b. 1612)
  • September 3
    • Kösem Sultan, regent of the Ottoman Empire (b. c. 1590)
    • William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington, English landowner, politician (b. 1610)
  • September 10 Yui Shōsetsu (b. 1605), Japanese rebel
  • September 12
    • Félix Castello, Spanish artist (b. 1595)
    • William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (b. 1616)
  • September 18 Henriette Marie of the Palatinate, German noble (b. 1626)
  • September 24
    • Étienne Pascal, French mathematician (b. 1588)
    • Marubashi Chūya, Japanese rebel
  • September 27 Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
  • October 4 Ludwig Camerarius, German politician (b. 1573)
  • October 6 Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (b. 1604)
  • October 7 Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
  • October 8
    • Isaac Elzevir, Dutch printer and publisher (b. 1596)
    • Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Polish princess, daughter of King Sigismund III Vasa (b. 1619)
  • October 10 Philippus Rovenius, Dutch priest (b. 1573)
  • October 15 James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (b. 1607)
  • October 25 Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (b. 1551)
  • November 20 Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
  • November 22 Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch, son of Walter Scott (b. 1626)
  • November 26 Henry Ireton, English Civil War leader (b. 1611)
  • December 14 Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
  • December 15 Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Italian saint (b. 1587)
  • November 18 Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach, Regent of Nassau-Saarbrücken (b. 1595)
  • December 18 William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath (b. 1580)
  • date unknown
    • Eva Bacharach, Bohemian Hebraist (b. 1580)
    • Giulia Tofana, Italian poisoner (b. 1581)
    • Angélique Paulet, French salonnière, singer, musician and actress (b. 1592)
    • Helena Czaplińska, Ukrainian Hetmana

References

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  2. Barros Arana, Diego. Historia general de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. Tomo cuarto (Digital edition based on the second edition of 2000 ed.). Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. p. 339.
  3. Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto; Villaroel Carmona, Rafael; Lepe Orellana, Jaime; Fuente-Alba Poblete, J. Miguel; Fuenzalida Helms, Eduardo (1997). Historia militar de Chile (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). Biblioteca Militar. p. 83.
  4. Kajaanin kaupunki täyttää tänä vuonna komeat 370 vuotta – juhlitaan kaupunkiamme eri tavoin (in Finnish)
  5. Solano Astaburuaga, Francisco (1899) [1867]. Diccionario Geográfico de la República de Chile (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). p. 280.
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  7. "Leviathan and De Cive", by Karl Schuhmann, in Leviathan After 350 Years, ed. by Luc Foisneau (Clarendon Press, 2004) p.17
  8. "Marquis of Montrose Society newsletter June 2010" (PDF). montrose-society.ndo.co.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.
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