Events in History in 1648

Apr 22 English army claims King Charles I responsible for bloodshed

Apr 29 Beginning of 18 day battle of Zhovti Vody in Ukraine - Polish King John II Casimir eventually defeated by Cossacks
May 15 Treaty of Munster ratified by Spain & Netherlands
May 16 Battle of Zhovti Vody: Ukrainian Cossacks, commanded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. and Crimean Tatars led by Tuhaj Bej, defeat Polish King John II Casimir, after 18 days of battle
May 17 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
Jun 10 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
Jun 24 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
Jun 30 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
Jul 22 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising
Aug 17 -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
Aug 20 Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
Aug 26 People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
Sep 11 -13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]
Sep 21 -23] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [NS]
Oct 4 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer fire service
Oct 18 1st labor organization forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
Oct 24 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized
Nov 2 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
Nov 11 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands

Nov 26 Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia

Nov 30 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
Dec 6 Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament