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1649

Year '''1649''' ('''Roman numerals|MDCXLIX''') was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

- January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. His widow Henrietta Maria returns to her native France.
- January 30 - 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.
- January 30 - Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all three Kingdoms do not recognize him as ruler.
- February 5 - 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.
- March 11 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the France|French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
- March 19 - The British House of Commons|House of Commons passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is ''"useless and dangerous to the people of England"''.
- May 17 - The Banbury mutiny ends - leaders of the Levellers|Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged.
- May 19 - ''s:An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth|An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth'' is passed by the Rump Parliament.
- May - Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake is promoted to become an Admiral of the English fleet.

- Urga is founded (now Mongolia's capital).
- The Diggers|Digger movement is crushed at St George's Hill.
- The English Interregnum starts.
- The Siege of Drogheda and Sack of Wexford: The beginning of the end for the Irish Catholic Confederation.

- February 2 - Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
- February 8 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
- February 11 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
- April 5 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
- April 9 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1685)
- June 13 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
- July 23 - Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- September 15 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
- December 7 - Charles Garnier (missionary)|Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)

- January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (executed) (b. 1600)
- March 9 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
- March 9 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
- March 16 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- March 19 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
- March 26 - John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. c.1587)
- May 14 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
- June 3 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portugues historian and poet (b. 1590)
- September 6 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
- September 15 - John Floyd (Jesuit)|John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
- October 3 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
- October 16 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
- November 19 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
- December 4 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
- December 8 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
- ''See also :Category:1649 deaths.'' Category:1649| map-bms:1649 be-x-old:1649 simple:1649 zh-yue:1649年

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