1647 CE

Citizens of Dublin declare their support for Rinuccini, and refuse to support the army of the Marquis of Ormond. Thirty Years' War: France, Bavaria, Cologne, and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. The King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promises to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.

In the 1640s, the 17th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

30 January – Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay. Thomas Fairfax meets the King beyond Nottingham and escorts him to Holdenby House in Northamptonshire.England source
February 5 – The Yongli era is proclaimed as Zhu Youlang is declared the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming.source
March – Following the Treaty of Ulm that removed Bavaria from the Thirty Years War, the Bavarian troops' commander, Holy Roman Imperial General Johann von Werth, defies Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and von Werth attempts to move the Bavarian troops out of Bavaria and into Austria to come under Imperial jurisdiction. The troops refuse, and von Werth flees to Austria.source
18 May – the House of Commons decides to disband the Army.England source
June 25 – The "Remonstrance of The Army" is presented to the English parliament by former Royal Army supporters of King Charles I, pledging their loyalty to the new English Commonwealth.source
2 August – the King rejects the proposals set out in the Heads of Proposals.England source
August 5 – The New Model Army marches into London, "fulfilling the worst nightmares of Presbyterian MPs," and restores the members of Parliament who were deposed on July 27.source
7 August – Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army, an attempt by Presbyterian MPs to raise the City of London having been unsuccessful.England source
August 17 – Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Netherlands, the Dutch colony in what is later the U.S. state of New York, by the Dutch West India Company to replace Willem Kieft, who departs New Amsterdam on the ship Princess Amelia.source
20 August – Parliament passes the Null and Void Ordinance.England source
October 28 – The Putney Debates, a series of discussions between officers of the New Model Army following Parliament's military defeat of the absolutist monarchy of King Charles, begin at the St. Mary's Church, Putney about what form of government would replace the monarchy in the new republican Commonwealth of England.source
October – the Levellers publish their manifesto Agreement of the People.England source
November 15 – Henry of Guise lands in Naples, to become the leader of the Neapolitan Republic.source
24 December – Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects.England source
26 December – the King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promises to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.England source

Conflict & Security

January 16 – Citizens of Dublin declare their support for Rinuccini, and refuse to support the army of the Marquis of Ormond.source
January 20 – A small Qing force led by Li Chengdong captures Guangzhou and kills the Zhu Yuyue, the Shaowu Emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty in China.source
20 January 1647, a small Qing force led by former Southern Ming commander Li Chengdong (李成東) captures Guangzhou, kills the Shaowu Emperor and sends the Yongli Emperor fleeing to Nanning in Guangxi.China source
February 24 – Thomas Bushell surrenders the Bristol Channel island of Lundy, the last remaining Royalist territory of England, to the Parliamentarians.source
March 14 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.source
14 March – Thirty Years' War: France, Bavaria, Cologne, and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.France source
March 14 – Sweden, France, and Bavaria sign the Truce of Ulm (which was eventually broken by Bavaria to assist Austria against Sweden and France) ending the Bavarian Campaign.Sweden source
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.source
May 24 – The Marquis of Argyll and David Leslie join forces to defeat Alasdair MacColla, at Rhunahoarine Point in Kintyre. MacColla flees to Ireland; his followers are massacred.source
June 6 – Michael Jones, named Governor of Dublin by England's Parliamentarians, lands with 2,000 troops and begins the expulsion of Catholics and the arrest of Protestant royalists.source
June 10 – The Battle of Puerto de Cavite begins in the Spanish Philippines when an armada of 12 large warships from the Dutch Republic sails into Manila Bay, with cannon fire hitting many of the roofs of the city. The Spanish defending fleet drives off the Dutch after a two day battle.source
June 19 – The Duke of Ormond, the royalist governor of Dublin, concludes a treaty with the English Commonwealth's Earl of Anglesey, handing over control of Dublin to the Commonwealth in return for the English promise to protect the interests of royalists, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, who had not joined in the Irish Rebellion.source
July 7 – Masaniello launches rebellion in Naples against Spanish rule.source
July 27 – A mob invades both Houses of the English Parliament at Westminster, and forces the Speakers of the House of Commons and the House of Lords to flee, along with other MPs and Peers.source
July – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, surrenders Dublin to parliamentary forces under Michael Jones.Ireland source
August 8 – Battle of Dungan's Hill: Irish forces are defeated by English Parliamentary forces.source
8 August – Irish Confederate Wars: An English Parliamentary army defeats the Irish Confederate's Leinster army.England source
August 22 – Battle of Triebl: Imperial forces defeat the Swedes in a surprise attack in Bohemia.source
August 22 - During the Battle of Triebl, Imperial forces defeat the Swedes in a surprise attack in Bohemia.Sweden source
November – Battle of Knocknanuss, Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin's Parliamentarian army inflicts crushing defeat on Confederate Ireland's Munster army.Ireland source
25 December – rioting in Canterbury and elsewhere over the celebration of Christmas.England source
Aberystwyth Castle in Wales, a former Royalist stronghold, is razed to the ground after "a battery of cannon erected on the top of Pendinas hill by Cromwell" and the Parliamentarian troops.source

Exploration & Expansion

Dutch artist Salomon van Ruysdael completes the oil painting, The Crossing at Nijmegen.source
Prince Frederick organized a trading mission to Barbados.Denmark source

Religion & Belief

January 7 – The Westminster Assembly begins debating the biblical proof texts, to support the new Confession of Faith.source
December 28 – King Charles of England promises a church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.source
The word Geysir is first used in Iceland, by Bishop Sveinsson.source

Economy & Finance

Anglican professors are dismissed from the University of Oxford.England source

Technology & Infrastructure

17 January – Postvesenet is established.Norway source

Health & Medicine

10 March – set aside by Parliament as a day of public humiliation under terms of February's "An Ordinance, concerning the growth and spreading of Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies, and for setting apart a day of Publike Humiliation, to seeke Gods assistance for the suppressing and preventing the same."England source
March – folk dancing and bear-baiting banned.England source

Disasters & Accidents

September 27 – The Dutch merchant ship Princess Amelia runs aground off of the coast of Mumbles Point, Wales and sinks, killing 86 of the 107 people aboard, including former New Netherlands Governor Willem Kieft.source

Climate & Environment

May 13 – The 1647 Santiago earthquake rattles Chile.source

Culture & Society

January 17 – Posten Norge is founded as Postvesenet.source
March 25 – In an incident that attracted attention, an orphan, Elisabett Månsdåtter, leads sixteen orphans from the Allmänna Barnhuset up to the royal palace, where she successfully demands to be given an audience with queen Christina and states in a complaint, that the children in the orphanage had been forced to beg on the streets to be given anything to eat.Sweden source
June 8 – The Puritan rulers of England's Long Parliament pass the "Ordinance for abolishing all Holidays, and appointing other Days for Sports and Recreations for Scholars, Apprentices, and Servants, in their Room", confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun, though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday. The Act declares "Forasmuch as the Feasts of the Nativity of Christ, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and other Festivals, commonly called Holidays, have heretofore been superstitiously used and observed; be it ordained, That the said Feasts and Festivals be no loner observed within England and Wales."source
June 16 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, is crowned as the King of Hungary and Croatia at Pressburg, now the Slovakian capital of Bratislavasource
June – the Long Parliament passes an ordinance confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun, though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday.England source
15 July – the King is allowed (at the request of Fairfax) to meet his children (James, Duke of York, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Elizabeth) for what will be the last time, at the Greyhound Inn, Maidenhead.England source
The group portrait painting of Ole Worm and his family is completed.Denmark source

Births

January 2 – Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist, rebel (died 1676)source
March 1 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (died 1693)source
April 1 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court (died 1680)source
1 April – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet (died 1680)England source
April 2 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator (died 1717)source
April 18 - Elias Brenner, painter, numismatist, and archeologist (died 1717).Sweden source
April 26 – William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor of London (1693–1694) (died 1720)source
June 20 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (died 1691)source
July 2 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councillor (died 1730)source
July 8 – Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, member of the Court of the Restoration, famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England (died 1702)source
July 22 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French Catholic nun, mystic and saint (died 1690)source
August 22 – Denis Papin, French inventor (died 1713)source
September 1 – Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1717)source
1 September – Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, princess (died 1717)Denmark source
September 23 – Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (died 1720)source
November 18 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (died 1706)source
December 7 – Giovanni Ceva, Italian mathematician (died 1734)source
Petter Dass, poet (died 1707).Norway source

Deaths

January 2 – Chinese bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong, who has ruled the Sichuan province since 1644, is killed at Xichong by a Qing archer, after having been betrayed by one of his officers, Liu Jinzhong.source
January 2 – Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel (born 1606)source
February 17 – Johann Heermann, German poet, hymn-writer (born 1585)source
March 14 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (born 1584)source
24 May – Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)England source
2 June – Crown-Prince Christian dies, leading to a succession crisis in Denmark-Norway.Denmark source
June 9 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (born 1606)source
July 7 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (born 1586)source
July 16 – Masaniello, Italian rebel (born 1622)source
August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born 1586)source
August 27 – Pietro Novelli, Italian painter (born 1603)source
October 8 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (born 1562)source
October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist (born 1608)source
November 13 – Battle of Knocknanuss: An Irish confederate force is destroyed by the army of Parliament; Alasdair MacColla is killed.source
November 30 – Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian painter (born 1582)source
November 30 – Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (born 1598)source
Zhang Xianzhong - killed in Shaanxi by Qing forcesChina source