1648

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 year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 648th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1648, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1648 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1648 MDCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2401
Armenian calendar	1097 ԹՎ ՌՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6398
Balinese saka calendar	1569–1570
Bengali calendar	1055
Berber calendar	2598
English Regnal year	23 Cha. 1 – 24 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2192
Burmese calendar	1010
Byzantine calendar	7156–7157
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4344 or 4284     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4345 or 4285
Coptic calendar	1364–1365
Discordian calendar	2814
Ethiopian calendar	1640–1641
Hebrew calendar	5408–5409
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1704–1705
- Shaka Samvat	1569–1570
- Kali Yuga	4748–4749
Holocene calendar	11648
Igbo calendar	648–649
Iranian calendar	1026–1027
Islamic calendar	1057–1058
Japanese calendar	Shōhō 5 / Keian 1 (慶安元年)
Javanese calendar	1569–1570
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3981
Minguo calendar	264 before ROC 民前264年
Nanakshahi calendar	180
Thai solar calendar	2190–2191
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 1774 or 1393 or 621     — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1775 or 1394 or 622

Events

• January/October: The Thirty Years' War ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
• October 24 – Switzerland is recognized as an independent country by the other countries of Europe.
• Saint-Barthélemy was claimed by France.
• The Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain ended.

Deaths

• March 12 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1571)