1650
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1650 (MDCL) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, or a common year starting on Tuesday (Julian-1650) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar. Events of 1650
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January - June
- 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.
July - December
- August 23 - Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of Coldstream Guards.
- September 3 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650).
- 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.
Undated
- 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.

Ongoing events
Births
- 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)
- See also 1650 births.
Deaths
- 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)
- See also 1650 deaths.
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