1651
Events
April– June
April 7 – Shunzhi , Emperor of China, announces in an imperial edict that he will purge corruption from government.
April 25 – Thomas Hobbes publishes his magnum opus, the political tract Leviathan , in England.
May 12 – General Marcin Kalinowski of Poland wins the Battle of Kopychyntsi against Zaporozhian Cossacks forces under the command of Asand Demka during the Khmelnytsky Uprising in what is now Ukraine .
May 21 – The Sovereign Military Order of Malta purchases the Caribbean islands of Saint Barthélemy , Saint Christopher , Saint Croix and Saint Martin from the France's Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique . The Order will sell the islands in 1665 to the French West India Company .
June 17 – Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) ; A squadron of Spanish galleys under John Joseph of Austria capture the French galleon Lion Couronné off Formentera , Balearic Islands , Spain.
June 30 – After three days of fighting in the Battle of Berestechko in Ukraine , one of the biggest land battles of the 17th century, with some 205,000 troops in the field, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army defeats the Zaporozhian Cossacks .
July– September
July 20 – At the Battle of Inverkeithing in Scotland , the English Parliamentarian New Model Army , under Major-General John Lambert , defeats a Scottish Covenanter army acting on behalf of Charles II, led by Sir John Brown of Fordell.
August 13 – The troops of King Charles II of Scotland force the retreat of English Commonwealth troops at the Battle of Warrington Bridge , the last victory of Scotland over England in battle.
August 28
September 1 – The siege of Dundee ends with the English Parliamentarian army, under General Monck , decisively defeating Covenanters in the last battle of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland.
September 2 – Kösem Sultan is assassinated by her daughter-in-law, Turhan Sultan .
September 3 – Charles II of England is defeated in the Battle of Worcester , the last major battle of the English Civil War , and forced to flee.
October– December
October 14 – Laws are passed in Massachusetts , forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
October 16 – Prince Charles [ dubious – discuss ] of the House of Stuart escapes from England to find refuge in France .
October – An English diplomatic team, headed by Oliver St John , goes to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic .
November 3 – The Manx Rebellion of 1651 comes to an end as the Countess of Derby surrenders the Isle of Man to the forces of Oliver Cromwell in return for a guarantee of safe passage for herself, her family and her servants, off of the island.
November 24 – In China, Qing dynasty forces led by Shang Kexi capture the city of Guangzhou from the Southern Ming and then carry out a massacre of the population, killing as many as 70,000 people over 11 days ending on December 5.
December 17 – Castle Cornet in Guernsey , the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War , surrenders.
Births
William Phips
Margaret Theresa of Spain
January 9 – Petronio Franceschini , Italian Baroque composer (d. 1680 )
January 18 – William Coddington, Jr. , Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1689 )
January 19 – Johannes Wolfgang von Bodman , German bishop (d. 1691 )
January 20 – Edward Tyson , British scientist (d. 1708 )
February 2 or 1950 – William Phips , first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1695 )
February 9 – Procopio Cutò , French entrepreneur (d. 1727 )
February 11 – Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet, of Middleton , English politician (d. 1716 )
February 11 – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch , wealthy Scottish peeress (d. 1732 )
February 21 – Silvius II Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d. 1697 )
February 25 – Quirinus Kuhlmann , German Baroque poet and mystic (d. 1689 )
February 26 – Pieter van der Hulst , Dutch painter (d. 1727 )
March 2 – Carlo Gimach , Maltese architect, engineer and poet (d. 1730 )
March 4 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers , Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1716 )
March 31 – Karl II, Elector Palatine of Germany (d. 1685 )
April 2 – Fabrizio Paolucci , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1726 )
April 6 – André Dacier , French classical scholar (d. 1722 )
April 10 – Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus , German mathematician (d. 1708 )
April 17 – Giuseppe Archinto , Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1712 )
April 21 – Blessed Joseph Vaz , Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711 )
April 30 – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle , French educational reformer (d. 1719 )
May 17 – Jacques Gravier , French Jesuit missionary in the New World (d. 1708 )
May 27 – Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles , French bishop (d. 1729 )
June 6 – Willem van Ingen , Dutch painter (d. 1708 )
June 10 – Alexander Edward , Scottish landscape architect (d. 1708 )
June 16 – Francisco Cuervo y Valdés , Spanish colonial governor (d. 1714 )
June 21 – William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1670 )
July 4 – Honoratus a Sancta Maria , French Discalced Carmelite (d. 1729 )
July 12 – Margaret Theresa of Spain (d. 1673 )
July 22 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter , Austrian Baroque composer (d. 1711 )
July 26 – Jacques Bigot (Jesuit) , French Jesuit priest, missionary to the Abenakis in Canada (d. 1711 )
August 6 – François Fénelon , Archbishop of Cambrai , France (d. 1715 )
August 6 – Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld , Swedish Field Marshal (d. 1722 )
August 13 – Balthasar Permoser , German sculptor (d. 1732 )
August 25 – François Baert , Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1719 )
September 1 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina , Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694 )
September 2 – Zubdat-un-Nissa , Mughal princess, daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb (d. 1707 )
September 5 – William Dampier , English explorer (d. 1715 )
September 6 – Aoyama Tadao , Japanese daimyō (d. 1685 )
September 16 – Engelbert Kaempfer , German physician and traveler (d. 1716 )
September 26 – Francis Daniel Pastorius , German founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1720 )
October 24 – Jean de La Chapelle , French writer and dramatist (d. 1723 )
October 26 – Perizonius , Dutch linguist (d. 1715 )
November 1 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay , French politician (d. 1690 )
November 12 – Juana Inés de la Cruz , Mexican nun, writer and poet (d. 1695 )
December 25 – Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal (d. 1710 )
December 28 – Johann Krieger , German composer and organist (d. 1735 )
date unknown – Gorgin Khan, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1709 )
Deaths
Tokugawa Iemitsu
Philippus Rovenius
January – Thomas Greene , Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1609 )
January 22 – Johannes Phocylides Holwarda , Dutch astronomer (b. 1618 )
January 29 – Diego de Colmenares , Spanish historian (b. 1586 )
February 6 – Erdmann August of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Hereditary Margrave (b. 1615 )
February 8 – Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport , English politician (b. 1587 )
February 9 – Herman Krefting , Norwegian businessman (b. 1592 )
March 11 – Alvise Contarini , Italian diplomat, nobleman (b. 1597 )
April 1 – John of Hesse-Braubach , German general (b. 1609 )
April 7 – Lennart Torstensson , Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (b. 1603 )
April 10 – Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet , English politician (b. 1593 )
May 16 – Sophie of Solms-Laubach , wife of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1594 )
May 26 – Jeane Gardiner , British woman executed for witchcraft in Bermuda
May 28 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (b. 1594 )
June 8 – Tokugawa Iemitsu , Japanese shōgun (b. 1604 )
June 17
July 7 – Dina Vinhofvers , Danish alleged conspirator (b. 1620 )
August 1 – Maria Anna Vasa , Polish princess (b. 1650 )
August 2 – Ercole, Marquis of Baux , member of the House of Grimaldi (b. 1623 )
August 8 – Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg , regent of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1602 )
August 16 – Filippo Benedetto de Sio , Italian Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1585 )
August 20 – Jeremi Wiśniowiecki , Polish nobleman (b. 1612 )
September 2
September 10 – Yui Shōsetsu , Japanese rebel (b. 1605 )
September 12
September 18 – Henriette Marie of the Palatinate , German noble (b. 1626 )
September 24
September 27 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573 )
October 4 – Ludwig Camerarius , German politician (b. 1573 )
October 6 – Heinrich Albert , German composer and poet (b. 1604 )
October 7 – Jacques Sirmond , French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559 )
October 8
October 10 – Philippus Rovenius , Dutch priest (b. 1573 )
October 15 – James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (b. 1607 )
October 25 – Saint Job of Pochayiv , Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (b. 1551 )
November 20 – Mikołaj Potocki , Polish soldier (b. 1595 )
November 22 – Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch , son of Walter Scott (b. 1626 )
November 26 – Henry Ireton , English Civil War leader (b. 1611 )
December 14 – Pierre Dupuy , French scholar (b. 1582 )
December 15 – Virginia Centurione Bracelli , Italian saint (b. 1587 )
November 18 – Anna Amalia of Baden-Durlach , Regent of Nassau-Saarbrücken (b. 1595 )
December 18 – William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath (b. 1580 )
date unknown
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