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| 1647 |
| | | Peter Stuyvesant begins a 17-year spell as director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America | |
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| 1647 |
| | | Charles I is held at his palace of Hampton Court, as a prisoner of Cromwell and parliament | |
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| 1647 |
| | | Charles I comes to a secret arrangement with a group of Covenanters in Scotland, winning their support | |
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| 1648 |
| | | Scottish Covenanters invade England in support of the English king, Charles I, in his struggle against parliament | |
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| 1648 |
| | | A Cossack rebellion leads to the eventual transfer of their territory from Poland to Russia | |
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| 1648 |
| | | Iroquois raids drive the Huron west to the Great Lakes | |
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| 1648 |
| | | A rebellion of nobles against Mazarin, the principal minister of the young Louis XIV, becomes known as the Fronde | |
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| 1648 |
| | | The Dutch chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont suggests that there are insubstantial substances other than air, and coins a name for them - gases | |
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| 1648 |
| | | The Peace of Westphalia finally brings to an end the Thirty Years' War | |
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| 1648 |
| | | Parliamentary forces defeat the Scottish invaders and suppress other new outbreaks of royalist support | |
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