PEACH

History

1647

Population: 545 Million*

Business: First newspaper advertisement appears in a journal about Parliament
Entertainment: Wirters include Abraham Cowley (romance), Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (collection of comedies and tragedies), Henry More Philosophical Poems, Jean Rotrou (political drama), Thomas May (history of Long Parliament)
Art includes Peter Lely "The Young Children of Charles I", Claude Lorrain "The Mill", Adriaen van Ostade "Peasant Family in an Interior", Rembrandt "Susannah and the Two Old Men",
Religion: Calvinists acknowledged by Lutherans as coreligionists
George Cox incorporates supremacy of conscience into Quaker philosophy
Science: Johann Hevel writes about lunar surface
Technology: Bayonet invented at Bayonne
Deaths: Poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Scientist Francesco Cavalieri, Physicist Evangelist Torricelli, Masaniello by assassination, Frederick Henry of Orange, Governor of Maryland Leonard Calvert, Witch finder Matthew Hopkins

General: Near end of 30 Years War
England: Civil war in Britain ebbs – Commons votes to disband most of the army – Charles I taken prisoner – he agrees to abolish episcopacy and restore Presbyterianism
Dismissal of Anglican professors at Oxford
Death of Matthew Hopkins the Ipswich witchfinder who caused deaths of 400
German States: Treaty of Ulm – Electors of Bavaria and Cologne undertake to remain neutral till the end of the war but intervene again in favor of Emperor Ferdinand III
Elector of Mainz and Landfrace of Hesse withdraw from the war
Dresden academie of arts founded
Holland: Death of Frederick Henry of Orange – son William II of Orange rules
Italian States: Masaniello revolts against the Spanish in Naples – Masaniello assassinated
Russia: Revolt against Czar Alexis in Moscow
Scotland: Scots sell Charles I to Parliament for 400,000 pounds
Spain: Plague outbreak to 1652