* 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet ( d. 1721 )

In 1648 John Wilkins cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople 1554-1562, as recording that " a Turk in Constantinople " attempted to fly.

* John Nash ( MP ) ( 1590 – 1661 ), English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1648

The strategic advantages of submarines were set out by Bishop John Wilkins of Chester, England, in Mathematicall Magick in 1648:

Steam turbines were also described by the Italian Giovanni Branca ( 1629 ) and John Wilkins in England ( 1648 ).

* January 8 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician ( b. 1648 )

** John Bainbridge, English astronomer ( d. 1648 )

* John White of England ( 1575 – 1648 ), Anglican priest and colonial organizer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( not to be confused with John White the governor of the Roanoke Colony )

* February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet ( b. 1648 )

It is widely believed that in 1617, Veranzio implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice and that the event was documented some thirty years later by John Wilkins, founder and secretary of the Royal Society in London in his book Mathematical Magick or, the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry, published in London in 1648.

One early record of a kitchen is found in the 1648 inventory of the estate of a John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut.

# John Casimir (; 22 May 1609 1672 ), reigned 1648 – 1668 as John II Casimir Vasa of Poland

The Visitors, using their own authority, elected Fellows between 1648 and October 1652, when without reference to the Commissioners, John Washbourne was chosen ; the autonomy of the College in this respect seems to have been restored.

In 1648 John Aubrey visited the site and found most of the stones still standing or lying nearby:

* Wilton House, Wiltshire ( 1636 – 40 ) the interior burnt c. 1647, rebuilt to the designs of John Webb ( 1648 )

Uttoxeter also saw the last major royalist surrender of the English Civil War, on 25 August 1648, when James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton surrendered to Parliamentarian General John Lambert.

* John II Casimir ( 1648 – 1668 )

John II Casimir (; ; ( 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania during the era of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duke of Opole in Upper Silesia, and titular King of Sweden 1648 – 1660.

In 1648 John Casimir was elected to succeed his half-brother on the Polish throne.

On 18 January 1648 George Masterson, minister of Shoreditch informed against Wildman and Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburne for promoting a seditious petition.

It seems that Wildman was satisfied with what the Council of Officers were suggesting because he abandoned further agitation, and in the winter of 1648 – 49 he joined the New Model Army as major in the regiment of horse of Colonel John Reynolds.

His son, John Quarles ( 1624 – 1665 ), was exiled to Flanders for his Royalist sympathies and was the author of Fons Lachrymarum ( 1648 ) and other poems.

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

In 1648 there appeared the play Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet by Jean Magnon, and in 1725 Handel's Tamerlano was first performed and published in London ; Vivaldi's version of the story, Bajazet, was written in 1735.

It brought to an end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors and has been interpreted as containing within itself the germ of nation-based sovereignty that would one day be confirmed in the Treaty of Westphalia ( 1648 ); in part this was an unforeseen result of strategic maneuvering between the Church and the European sovereigns over political control within their domains.

This provoked the Second Civil War ( 1648 – 49 ) and a second defeat for Charles, who was subsequently captured, tried, convicted, and executed for high treason.

– 2 February 1648 ) was an English writer, known as " The Puritan " and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.

He was re-elected MP for Tamworth in 1645 for the Long Parliament and held the seat until his death in 1648.

The Thirty Years ' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved most of the major European powers.

The two parts of the Holy Roman Empire clashed in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), which was ruinous to the twenty million civilians.

The Duke of Hamilton led an invasion of England to free the King, but he was defeated by Oliver Cromwell in August 1648 at the Battle of Preston.

From 1648, the Cossack Khmelnytsky Uprising engulfed the south and east, and was soon followed by a Swedish invasion, which raged through core Polish lands.

When the Thirty Years ' War concluded with the Treaty of Münster ( also called the Peace of Westphalia ) in 1648, a new electorate was created for the Count Palatine of the Rhine.

The Elector of Bavaria replaced the Elector Palatine in 1623, but when the latter was granted a new electorate in 1648, there was a dispute between the two as to which was vicar.

* Dreadnought was a 41-gun ship launched in 1573, rebuilt in 1592 and 1614, then broken up in 1648.

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.

The castle was taken by Parliamentarian troops in 1644 during the Civil War, and largely destroyed in 1648 not as the result of warfare, but because of an order from Parliament to dismantle all Royalist castles.

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.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

* 1648 – Thomas Ford, English composer

On October 30, 1648, Thomas Rainsborough was killed.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas Francis as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas Francis instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

Fairfax was the great grandson of Thomas Fairfax who led the parliamentarian attack at the nearby Battle of Maidstone in 1648 and whose doublet worn during the battle is on display.

* Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton and Malmesbury ( 1648 – 1715 ), English Whig politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

* Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton ( 1648 – 1715 ), English nobleman and politician, credited with being the lyricist of Lilliburlero

The lower parts of the hall are panelled with inset paintings of a curious selection of modern worthies, including Protestants such as Elizabeth I and William the Silent ; Catholics such as Philip II and Ambrogio Spinola ; the explorers Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan, and Muhammadans such as Bajazet and Mohammed II, Sultans of Turkey ; it is thought this scheme might be rather earlier than the other work and date from the time of Thomas Charnock MP, who died in 1648.

On the entry of the army into London in 1648, Deane superintended the seizure of treasure at the Guildhall and the Weavers ' Hall the day after Thomas Pride " purged " the House of Commons and accompanied Cromwell to the consultations as to the " settlement of the Kingdom " with William Lenthall and Sir Thomas Widdrington, the keeper of the great seal.

Pride ’ s Purge was an event that took place in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents.

The New Model Army wanted to prevent the Treaty of Newport from reinstating King Charles I. Thomas Fairfax organized a military coup in 1648 by issuing a command to Commissary General Ireton.

In 1648 he was deprived of his studentship by the parliamentary visitors, and during the next few years he resided chiefly at Oxford with his brother-in-law, Thomas Willis, at whose house opposite Merton College he and his friends Richard Allestree and John Dolben kept up the service of the Church of England throughout the Commonwealth.

In 1648, Lexden was the headquarters of Lord-General Thomas Fairfax during the Siege of Colchester, and his army camped on Lexden Heath.

Another famous member of this family was Thomas Thynne ( 1648 – 1682 ), called on account of his wealth " Tom of Ten Thousand.

* 1648 / 49 Thomas Green Robert Smith

Playford's printers were: Thomas Harper, 1648 – 1652 ; William Godbid, 1658 – 1678 ; Ann Godbid and her partner, John Playford the younger, 1679 – 1683 ; John Playford alone, 1684-1685.

* Thomas Wharton, 5th Baron Wharton ( 1648 – 1715 ) ( created Earl of Wharton in 1706 and Marquess of Wharton in 1715 )

* Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton ( 1648 – 1715 )