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Births

23 February (baptised): JOHN BLOW = English organist and composer = [died 1708]
25 February: JOHANN PHILIPP KRIEGER = German composer and organist = [died: 1725]
3 May (baptised): JOHANN VALENTIN MEDER = German organist and composer = [died: 1719]

Timeline of Events

20 January: Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
27 January: King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is found guilty of high treason in a public session. He is beheaded three days later, outside the Banqueting Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London.
30 January:

Following the execution of King Charles I, the Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland. Members of the Long Parliament serve as government.
Charles, Prince of Wales declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time, none of the three kingdoms recognize him as ruler.

5 February: In Edinburgh, Scotland claimant King Charles II of England is declared King in his absence. Scotland is the first of the three Kingdoms to recognize his claim to the throne.
11 March: The rebel Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
19 March: The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
March: Robert Blake is promoted to become a "General at Sea" of the English fleet.
17 May: The Banbury mutiny in England ends – leaders of the Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged.
19 May: An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Rump Parliament.
22 May-October: Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.
August: The Diggers abandon their last major colony at St. George's Hill, Weybridge, England.
8 August: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh completes Book VIII of Leabhar na nGenealach, in Galway, within days of an outbreak of the plague.
15 August: Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
2 September: The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
3-11 September: Siege of Drogheda in Ireland: New Model Army massacre the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.
2-11 October: Sack of Wexford in Ireland: New Model Army massacre the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.

Urga is founded (now Mongolia's capital).
Dutch artist Frans Hals paints a portrait of René Descartes (19 × 14 cm), currently in the National Gallery of Denmark.