Historical Events in 1647
- Jan 30 After nine months of negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English Parliament for around £100,000
- Mar 14 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- Mar 25 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
- May 11 Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam
- May 23 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
- May 26 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
- May 26 Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut
- Jun 4 English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War
- Jul 7 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples
- Aug 8 The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
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Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut
On May 26, 1647
Famous People Born in 1647
- Jan 2 Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)
- Jan 7 Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- Jan 30 Konrad Hoffler, German composer (d. 1705)
- Mar 12 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
- Apr 1 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
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