* 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.

* 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer ( d. 1719 )

* 1647 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German botanist ( d. 1717 )

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

Among its founding fathers was Willem Usselincx ( 1567 – 1647 ).

* 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist ( d. 1676 )

* 1647 – Francis Meres, English writer ( b. 1565 )

* 1586 – Thomas Hooker, English-American colonist, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( d. 1647 )

* 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( b. 1586 )

* 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1677 )

* 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.

* 1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.

* 1647 – Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft ( b. 1600 )

* 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer ( d. 1647 )

* 1647 – Thirty Years ' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.

* 1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher ( d. 1706 )

* 1562 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer ( d. 1647 )

* 1608 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist ( d. 1647 )

Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 – August 1672 ), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

Thomas was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., " the scholar " ( 1647 – 1715 ) and Laetitia Corbin ( c. 1657 – 1706 ).

At the Putney Debates in 1647, Colonel Thomas Rainsborough defended natural rights as coming from the law of God expressed in the Bible.

This was presented to the commander-in-chief, Sir Thomas Fairfax, on 18 October 1647.

* July 5 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist ( d. 1647 )

In 1646, Thomas Francis was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas Francis is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

In 1646, Thomas was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

Engraved title page of the third edition of Historie of the Holy Warre by Thomas Fuller, 1647

Because of his participation in the rebellion, his lands, which had been restored to him in 1647 on account of his youth, were confiscated and given to his future father-in-law, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, who refused to compound.

A long siege ensued from June 1646 until 15 March 1647, when the garrison of 44 men surrendered to Major-General Thomas Mytton.

In 1647, Baxter was staying at the home of Lady Rouse, wife of Sir Thomas Rouse, 1st Baronet, of Rouse Lench in Warwickshire.

* Joseph Dudley ( 1647 – 1720 ), colonial governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas Dudley

* Joseph Dudley ( 1647 – 1720 ), a colonial governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas Dudley

Thomas Hooker ( July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647 ) was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts.

Richard Rawlinson was a younger son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson ( 1647 – 1708 ), Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1705-6, and a brother of Thomas Rawlinson ( 1681 – 1725 ), the bibliophile who ruined himself in the South Sea Company, at whose sale in 1734 Richard bought many of the Orientalia.

Thomas Osborne, the future Lord Treasurer, succeeded to the baronetcy and estates in Yorkshire on his father Edward's death in 1647, and, after unsuccessfully courting his cousin Dorothy Osborne, married Lady Bridget, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, in 1651.

* Thomas Hooker ( 1586 – 1647 ), Puritan leader

The clergyman Thomas Fuller ( 1608 – 61 ), then living in London, gave a series of sermons at St Clement's in 1647.

Thomas Farnaby ( or Farnabie ) ( c. 1575 – June 12, 1647 ) was an English schoolmaster and scholar.

He was eventually handed over to the English Parliament in early 1647.

" The English Nobility and the Projected Settlement of 1647 ", in Historical Journal, 30, 3.

* Mendle, Michael ( ed ), The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

** Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician ( b. 1647 )

* July 26 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet ( b. 1647 )

** Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur ( d. 1647 )

** Francis Meres, English churchman and author ( d. 1647 )

In 1647, different factions of the victorious parliamentary army held a series of discussions, the Putney Debates, on reforming the structure of English government.

In 1647, during the English Civil War, riots broke out when Canterbury's puritan mayor banned church services on Christmas Day.

The Eleanor Cross was pulled down, by order of Parliament, in 1647, at the time of the English Civil War, becoming the subject of a popular Royalist ballad:

* Pelham Humfrey ( 1647 – 1674 ), English Baroque composer

* Corkbush Field mutiny occurred on 1647 and the Bishopsgate mutiny and Banbury mutiny of 1649 during the early stages the Second English Civil War.

The Parliamentary Army garrisoned the town upon the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and later established their headquarters there in June 1647 on a line from Staines to Watford, although the King passed through Uxbridge in April 1946, resting at the Red Lion public house for several hours.

Henry Aldrich ( 1647 – 14 December 1710 ) was an English theologian and philosopher.

Two considerably earlier seventeenth-century English manuscript books of recipes give instructions for confections that are recognizable as meringue, though called " white biskit bread " in the book of recipes started in 1604 by Lady Elinor Fettiplace ( c. 1570-c. 1647 ) of Appleton in Berkshire ( now in Oxfordshire ), or called " pets " in the manuscript of collected recipes written by Lady Rachel Fane ( 1612 / 13-1680 ), of Knole, Kent.

He married Mary Browne, daughter of Sir Richard Browne the English ambassador in Paris in 1647.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1647 when it became the last fortification to surrender to the Parliamentary armies.

In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O ' Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin.

* John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham ( c. 1647 – 1710 ), English politician

Matthew Hopkins ( c. 1620 – 12 August 1647 ) was an English witchhunter whose career flourished during the time of the English Civil War.