* late-Semyon Dezhnyov, Pomor navigator, who in 1648 made the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait ( born c. 1605 )

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.

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.

The Thirty Years ' War between 1618 and 1648 devastated Berlin.

* The Duchy of Brabant, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire between 1183 – 1648 covering parts of the Netherlands and Belgium, ruled over by the Dukes of Brabant

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.

The first ( 1642 – 46 ) and second ( 1648 – 49 ) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war ( 1649 – 51 ) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament.

– 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.

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.

But in 1648 beginning of the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine, at this time in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which continues until 1654, and results is concluded in the city of Pereyaslav during the meeting between the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host and Tsar Alexey I of Russia the Treaty of Pereyaslav.

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.

* 1648 – Eighty Years ' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

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

For events between 1642 and 1648, See First English Civil War

" Eventually King Charles the I's terms of reforming the government as proposed by the Long Parliament were accepted by the House at a vote of 129 to 83 on 1 December 1648 allowing for the King's restoration and the end of the stalemate between Parliament and the King.

Divisions emerged between various factions, culminating in Pride's Purge on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 41 of the members of Parliament.

The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster.

These treaties ended the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic.

* The signing of the Peace of Münster between the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Spain on 30 January 1648, officially ratified in Münster on 15 May 1648.

In 1648, a conflict started between him and Brant Aertzsz van Slechtenhorst, the commissary of the patroonship Rensselaerwijck.

Notes on a Q & A session between Descartes and Frans Burman on 16 April 1648.

It remained so until 1648, when the settlement of the Thirty Years ' War required the addition of a new elector to maintain the precarious balance between Protestant and Catholic factions in the Empire.

* The New World Tapestry is a 267 feet long tapestry which depicts the colonisation of the Americas between 1583 and 1648, displayed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum ; this is not ( strictly speaking ) a tapestry, but is instead embroidery.

The Reconquista of Portugal and Spain led to a series of oceanic explorations resulting in the age of discovery that established direct links with Africa, the Americas and Asia, while religious wars continued to be fought in Europe, which ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.

By 1648, with the end of the Thirty Years ' War, the official religious balance of established Christianity in Europe was permanently stabilized, but new fields for evangelization were offered by vast regions of Asia, Africa and the Americas then being explored.

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.

( August 15, 1607 – January 15, 1648 ) was a Spanish Dominican friar who went as a missionary to Asia.

On December 13, 1648, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had ordered that the Colony's scattered militia companies be organized into North, South and East Regiments — with a goal of increasing the militias ' accountability to the colonial government, efficacy, and responsiveness in conflicts with indigenous Pequot Indians.

The Dutch were able to gain control of much of the trade with the nascent English colonies in North America and following the end of war with Spain in 1648, Dutch trade with that country also flourished.

In 1648, part of the new North range was occupied by the Earl of Linlithgow.

Baldock's position at the crossing of two important thoroughfares, the Great North Road and the Icknield Way has made it a stopping point for a number of illustrious visitors, including Charles I, who passed through Baldock en route for London after his arrest in 1648 and supposedly Dick Turpin.

In 1648 Margaret Brent, an English immigrant to the Colony of Maryland, was the first woman in the English North American colonies to appear before a court of the Common Law.

## The Rise of the North: 1559 – 1648

He was appointed a serjeant-at-law by Parliament and in 1648 Chief Justice of Chester and North Wales.

In 1869 he published a map of the Arctic Ocean North of Wrangel Island with all exploration routes between 1648 and 1867 and a map with sea-temperatures in the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea as observed by the German expedition.

Gerrard Winstanley ( 1648 ), Richard Coppin ( 1652 ), Jane Leade ( 1697 ), and then George de Benneville in America, taught that God would grant all human beings salvation.

In 1648, the Company of the Isles of America started to wind up its affairs and in 1650 du Parquet bought the island.

As with many other animals from tropical South America ( e. g. the Cariamae ), the Tupinambis owes its scientific name to the pioneering accounts given by Piso & Marcgrave in their Historia Naturalis Brasiliae ( 1648 ).

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.

In 1648, preacher John Elliott was quoted in Thomas Shepherd's book " Clear Sunshine of the Gospel " with an account of the difficulties the Pilgrims were having in using the Indians to harvest cranberries as they preferred to hunt and fish.

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.

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

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.

* 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.