1647
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- March 14 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- April 3 - In England, letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons
- May 29 - The Rhode Island General Assembly drafts a constitution that separates church and state, and permits public referenda and initiatives on legislation.
- August 8 - The battle of Dungans Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces.
- August - Peter Stuyvesant appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.
- Johann von Werth tried to take his troops over the Austrian border, but they refused
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