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    1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1648th...
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    and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers...
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    Claude of Lorraine (6 October 1612 – 2 August 1648) was the Duchess of Lorraine by marriage. Born into an illustrious House of Lorraine, she was the younger...
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    treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the...
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    Khmelnytsky insurrection, was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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    Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups...
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    pronunciation: [fʁɔ̃d]) were a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun...
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    Netherlands and the Spanish Crown, the terms of which were agreed on 30 January 1648. The treaty, negotiated in parallel to, but not part of, the Peace of Westphalia...
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  • 1640s BC (redirect from 1648 BC)
    China, r. 1644–1612 BC Salitis, Fifteenth dynasty Pharaoh of Egypt, r. c.1648–1628 BC Djehuti, Sixteenth Dynasty Pharaoh of Egypt, r. c.1650–1647 BC Sobekhotep...
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    The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648) covers a period in the history of Poland and Lithuania, before their joint state was subjected...
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