1651

Year 1651 (MDCLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday ( [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1651&country=20 Julian-1651] ) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1651

January - June

* January 1 - Charles II is crowned King of Scotland in Scone (this is his first crowning).
* June 28 - June 30 - Battle of Beresteczko: The Poles defeat the Ukrainians (the biggest battle of the 17th century).

July - December

* September 3 - English Civil War - Battle of Worcester: Charles II of England is defeated in the last major battle of the war.
* October 14 - Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
* October - An English diplomatic team headed by Oliver St John went to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the English Commonwealth and the Dutch Republic.

Ongoing events

* Fronde civil war in France (1648-1653)

Undated

* The Keian Uprising fails in Japan.
* Possible year of the disappearance of the island Buise in the Petri Flood.

Births

* January 3 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
* March 4 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1716)
* March 31 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
* April 6 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
* April 10 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)
* April 21 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
* April 30 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (d. 1719)
* May 27 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles (d. 1729)
* September 1 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
* September 16 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
* October 21 - Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702)
* Gorgin Khan, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1709)

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Deaths

* April 7 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
* September 3 - Kösem, sultane and regent of the Ottoman empire
* September 27 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
* October 7 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
* October 25 - Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (b. 1551)
* November 20 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
* November 26 - Henry Ireton, English Civil War leader (b. 1611)
* December 14 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
* Marubashi Chūya and Yui Shōsetsu (b. 1605), Japanese rebels

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