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Events and People Who Made History in the Year 1649 AD
January
January 5: Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
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February
February 5: Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
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March
March 11: Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
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April
April 21: Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
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June
June 1: Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
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September
September 11: Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
September 11: Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred
September 30: Last Swedish troops vacate Prague
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