WHAT HAPPENED IN 1648.
Look what happened the 1648.

England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. (17. January 1648)

Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. (30. January 1648)

Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed. (13. May 1648)

The Treaty of Westphalia is signed. (15. May 1648)

The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. (1. June 1648)

Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (15. June 1648)

Siege of Colchester ended when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the English Civil War. (28. August 1648)

Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization. (18. October 1648)

The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. (24. October 1648)

Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge". (6. December 1648)