This article is about the year 1651.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1620s 1630s 1640s – 1650s – 1660s 1670s 1680s |
Years: | 1648 1649 1650 – 1651 – 1652 1653 1654 |
1651 by topic: | |
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Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science | |
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Colonial governors - State leaders | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1651 MDCLI |
Ab urbe condita | 2404 |
Armenian calendar | 1100 ԹՎ ՌՃ |
Assyrian calendar | 6401 |
Bahá'í calendar | -193–-192 |
Bengali calendar | 1058 |
Berber calendar | 2601 |
English Regnal year | 2 Cha. 2 – 3 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) |
Buddhist calendar | 2195 |
Burmese calendar | 1013 |
Byzantine calendar | 7159–7160 |
Chinese calendar | 庚寅年閏十一月初十日 (4287/4347-intercalary 11-10) — to —
辛卯年十一月十九日(4288/4348-11-19) |
Coptic calendar | 1367–1368 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1643–1644 |
Hebrew calendar | 5411–5412 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1707–1708 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1573–1574 |
- Kali Yuga | 4752–4753 |
Holocene calendar | 11651 |
Iranian calendar | 1029–1030 |
Islamic calendar | 1061–1062 |
Japanese calendar | Keian 4 (慶安4年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3984 |
Minguo calendar | 261 before ROC 民前261年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2194 |
Year 1651 (MDCLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
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
- July 20 – Battle of Inverkeithing: An English Parliamentarian army under John Lambert defeats a Scottish Covenanter army acting on behalf of Charles II, led by Sir John Brown of Fordell.
- September 3 – English Civil War – Battle of Worcester: the future King 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.
Date unknown
- The Keian Uprising fails in Japan.
- Possible year of the disappearance of the island Buise in St. Peter's Flood.
- Madanmohan-jiu Temple built at Samta, a village in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India.
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)
- date unknown – Gorgin Khan, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1709)
Deaths
- April 7 – Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
- May 26 – Jeane Gardiner, British woman executed for witchcraft
- 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)
- date unknown – Marubashi Chūya and Yui Shōsetsu (b. 1605), Japanese rebels