• Events from the year 1648 in Ireland. Monarch: Charles I March – Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin changes sides and declares for the King. September...
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    of Ireland (1649–1653) was the re-conquest of Ireland by the Commonwealth of England, led by Oliver Cromwell. It forms part of the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate...
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    in 1648. Some Confederates (most notably the Ulster army) were however opposed to this treaty initiating a brief Irish Catholic civil war in 1648 in which...
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    defeat in the 1648 Second English Civil War resulted in the execution of Charles I in January 1649, and establishment of the Commonwealth of England. In 1650...
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    The Battle of Preston (17–19 August 1648), fought largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire, resulted in a victory for the New Model Army under...
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  • Sir John Rogerson (1648–1724) was an Irish politician, wealthy merchant and property developer. Very little is known about his family background or his...
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    The second Battle of Stirling was fought on 12 September 1648 during the Scottish Civil War of the 17th century. The battle was fought between the Engagers...
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    conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, then separate entities united in a personal union under Charles I....
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    Second English Civil War (category 1648 in England)
    The Second English Civil War took place between February and August 1648 in England and Wales. It forms part of the series of conflicts known collectively...
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  • Rory Maguire (soldier) (category 1648 deaths)
    November 1648) was an Irish politician and soldier. He was a leading instigator of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and subsequently participated in the Irish Confederate...
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  • (1576–1648) was an English army officer and member of the Parliament of Ireland who was appointed joint Lord Justice of Ireland. Born in 1576 in Cornwall...
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    January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as...
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  • Henry Colley (died 1719) (category 1648 births)
    Henry Colley (1648–1719) was an Irish Member of Parliament. Henry Colley, born in 1648, was the son of Dudley Colley, MP for Philipstown, and the former...
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  • This List of Castles in Ireland, be they in Northern Ireland and thus United Kingdom or in the Republic of Ireland, is organised by county within their...
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  • Tessa Pullan (born 1954), sculptor, equestrian artist Tobias Pullen (1648–1713), Irish bishop Tom Pullen (born 1945), Canadian football (gridiron) player...
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    existed in Ireland from ancient times. This continued in all of Ireland until 1949, when the Republic of Ireland Act removed most of Ireland's residual...
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  • Alasdair Mac Colla (category People of the Irish Confederate Wars)
    Memoirs, p.238 Worthington, Scots in Habsburg Service: 1618 - 1648, p.129 Stevenson ,Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates, p.188 Stevenson ,Highland...
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    into captivity in May 1646. During the Second English Civil War in 1648, Charles moved to The Hague, where his sister Mary and his brother-in-law William...
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  • Aslamie, King, (?–1648) Kamachat Maloe, King, (1648–?) Spanish Formosa (complete list) – Spanish Colony, 1626–1642 For details see Spain in southwest Europe...
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  • bed in 2019. In his Confessio Authoris, published posthumously by Jan Baptist van Helmont (a chemist from Brussels) in 1648, he noted that "The Irish nobility...
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    International relations from 1648 to 1814 covers the major interactions of the nations of Europe, as well as the other continents, with emphasis on diplomacy...
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    by excommunicating all who in May 1648 took part in the Inchiquin Truce with the Royalists; but he could not get the Irish Catholic Bishops to agree on...
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    Bishops' Wars (category 1639 in Scotland)
    the Irish Confederate Wars, and the 1650 to 1652 Anglo-Scottish War. In 1637, Charles I, then king of both Scotland and England, imposed changes in religious...
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  • assess taxes in Lancashire. He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1648. In 1654, Ireland was elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the First Protectorate...
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    The Irish Rebellion of 1641 was an uprising in Ireland, initiated on 23 October 1641 by Catholic gentry and military officers. Their demands included an...
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    Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries. Originating as a cadet branch of the House of Welf in 1635,...
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  • of chief governor of Ireland existed under various names from the 12th-century Anglo-Norman invasion to the creation of the Irish Free State on 6 December...
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    Oliver Cromwell (category English MPs 1640–1648)
    John in September 1648 urged him to read Isaiah 8, in which the kingdom falls and only the godly survive. On four occasions in letters in 1648 he referred...
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  • articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 9 – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace begins his second...
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    Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652) (category 1650 in England)
    Civil Wars, in which English Royalists, loyal to Charles I, fought Parliamentarians for control of the country, took place between 1642 and 1648. When the...
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