Important Historical Events of the year 1648, Year 1648 in History

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Date	Event
January 17, 1648	England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
January 30, 1648	Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
May 15, 1648	The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
May 17, 1648	Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria in the Battle of Zusmarshausen.
June 1, 1648	The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
June 15, 1648	Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
August 8, 1648	Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman sultan.
August 20, 1648	Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Lens: An outnumbered and hastily assembled French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, decisively defeats a Spanish army led by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria at Lens in the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years’ War, contributing to the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in October later that year.
August 26, 1648	The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France, suddenly orders the arrest of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris, provoking the rest of Paris to break into insurrection and barricade the streets the next day.
August 28, 1648	Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
October 18, 1648	Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.
October 24, 1648	The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
December 6, 1648	Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".