In 1648 the Bering Strait between Asia and North America was passed for the first time by Fedot Popov and Semyon Dezhnyov.

It was named in honor of Semyon Dezhnyov, the first recorded European to round its tip ( in 1648 ).

In 1648, Semyon Dezhnev and Fedot Alekseev sailed the coast of the East Siberian Sea from the Kolyma to river Anadyr in the Bering Sea.

In 1648 Semyon Dezhnyov sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic to the Anadyr River on the Pacific, but his route was not practical and was not used for the next 200 years.

Both Vitus Bering ( in 1728 ) and James Cook ( in 1778 ) entered the Bering Strait from the south and sailed some distance northwest, but from 1648 ( Semyon Dezhnev ) to 1879 ( Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ) no one is recorded as having sailed eastward between the Kolyma and Bering Strait.

In 1648 the most famous of these expeditions, led by Fedot Alekseev and Semyon Dezhnev, sailed east from the mouth of the Kolyma to the Pacific and rounded the Chukchi Peninsula, thus proving that no land connection between Asia and North America exists.

Unquestionably, the most celebrated Russian explorer was Semyon Dezhnev, who, in 1648, sailed the entire length of present-day Russia by way of the Arctic Ocean.

* Fisher, Raymond H. ( ed ) ( 1981 ) The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648: Bering's precursor, with selected documents.

* Raymond H Fisher: The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648, The Hakluyt Society, 1981.

; 1648: Jewish population of Poland reached 450, 000 ( i. e. 4 % of the 11000000 population of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is Jewish ), Bohemia 40, 000 and Moravia 25, 000.

The war dragged on for many years until a peace agreement was at last reached in 1648.

After peace between Spain and the Netherlands was reached with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Blauvelt, unable to stay in New Amsterdam, instead sailed to Newport, Rhode Island in early 1649 to sell his remaining cargo.

On 30 January 1648, the parties reached an agreement and a text was sent to The Hague and Madrid to be signed.

In the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, Frankfurt was confirmed as an Imperial Free City, and soon reached new heights of prosperity.

In 1648 tsar Alexis I of Russia reached the age required for marriage.

In 1648, Stone reached an agreement with Cecilius Calvert, the 2nd Lord Baltimore to resettle the group in central Maryland.

From 1648 to 1652, Tavares also led one of the longest known expeditions from São Paulo to the mouth of the Amazon river, investigating many of its tributaries, including the Rio Negro, and covering a distance of more than 10, 000 km.

Kungur was founded above the Iren River's mouth on the banks of the Kungurka River in 1648.

In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic Ocean to the Anadyr River on the Pacific.

There is some evidence that 1648 was unusually ice-free ), 3 ) and most important, the fact that the documents can be read to imply only that Dezhnyov rounded a cape on the Arctic coast, was wrecked on that coast and wandered for 10 weeks south to the Anadyr.

Portrait after Frans Hals, 1648.

1648 ; i. e. after the Thirty Years ' War, in France and the French colonial empire, until established as the national language during the French Revolution of 1789 and subsequently multinational in all nations in or formerly in the various French Empires.

The Empire after the Peace of Westphalia, 1648

A map of Europe in 1648, after the Peace of Westphalia.

Pessimism in the south was more intense after the Cossacks ' Uprising ( 1648 – 1654 ) under Chmielnicki and the turbulent times in Poland ( 1648 – 1660 ), which violently ruined the Jewry of South East Poland, but did not much affect that of Lithuania and Estonia.

The last campaign of the war ( 1648 ) was uneventful, and shortly after its close he retired to live on the estates which he had bought in the course of his career, and on one of these, Benátky nad Jizerou NE of Prague in Bohemia, a gift from the emperor, he died on September 12, 1652 and was buried in the church of Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Benátky.

Kolberg, with most of Farther Pomerania, was granted to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1648 by the Treaty of Westphalia and, after the signing of the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), was part of the Province of Pomerania.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

A prayer room is known to have existed since the 16th century: the first actual synagogue was built in 1648, and rebuilt in 1691 after a fire.

Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents.

According to the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ), Magdeburg was assigned to Brandenburg-Prussia after the death of the current administrator, August of Saxe-Weissenfels, as the semi-autonomous Duchy of Magdeburg ; this occurred in 1680.

A simplified map of Europe after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Gorton received a separate charter for his settlement in 1648, which he named Warwick after his patron.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

The Levellers ' largest petition, entitled " To The Right Honourable The Commons Of England ", was presented to Parliament on September 11, 1648 after amassing signatories including about a third of all Londoners.

Europe in 1648, after the Treaty of Westphalia

Pomerania was under Swedish rule after the Peace of Westphalia from 1648 until 1815 as Swedish Pomerania.

In 1648, after Portugal has regained its independence from the Spanish rulers in 1640, a large Portuguese force from Brazil under the command of Salvador Correia de Sá retook Luanda, leading to the return of the Portuguese in large numbers.

Because warfare had caused large numbers of the population ( mainly in the countryside ) to die or to flee, numerous immigrants arrived from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Lorraine, Savoy and other areas after 1648 and until the mid-18th century.

France again had to vacate it after the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which however won France several positions in Alsace, east of Lorraine.

In Germany, these nobles rose to dynastic status by preserving from the Imperial crown ( de jure after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ) the exercise of such sovereign prerogatives as the minting of money ; the muster of military troops and the right to wage war and contract treaties ; local judicial authority and constabular enforcement ; and the habit of inter-marrying with sovereign dynasties.

The Dutch had five autonomous admiralties and after 1648 these sold off many of their ships.

The Dutch had after 1648 quickly replaced the English in their traditional Iberian trade.