Editing 1647 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 2]] &ndash; Chinese bandit leader [[Zhang Xianzhong]], who has ruled the [[Sichuan]] province since 1644, is killed at [[Xichong County|Xichong]] by a Qing archer, after having been betrayed by one of his officers, Liu Jinzhong. <ref>"The Culmination of a Chinese Peasant Rebellion: Chang Hsien-chung in Szechwan, 1644–46", by James B. Parsons, ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' (May 1957) p. 399</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash; The [[Westminster Assembly]] begins debating the biblical proof texts, to support the new [[Westminster Confession of Faith|Confession of Faith]].<ref>The Work of the Westminster Assembly John Murray, (The Presbyterian Guardian 1942)</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; Citizens of [[Dublin]] declare their support for [[Giovanni Battista Rinuccini|Rinuccini]], and refuse to support the army of the [[Marquis of Ormond]].<ref>History of the Great Civil War vol. iii, S.R. Gardiner (London 1889)</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Posten Norge]] is founded as '''Postvesenet'''.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.postennorge.com/Group/History|title= Milestones in Norway Post's history|publisher= postennorge.com|access-date= October 1, 2016|archive-date= October 24, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161024022538/http://www.postennorge.com/Group/History|url-status= dead}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; A small Qing force led by Li Chengdong captures [[Guangzhou]] and kills the [[Zhu Yuyue]], the [[List of emperors of the Ming dynasty|Shaowu Emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty]] in China. <ref> Frederic Wakeman, ''The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China'' (University of California Press, 1985) p. 738</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The [[Zhu Youlang|Yongli]] [[Chinese era name|era]] is proclaimed as [[Zhu Youlang]] is declared the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bushell (mining engineer)|Thomas Bushell]] surrenders the [[Bristol Channel]] island of [[Lundy]], the last remaining Royalist territory of England, to the Parliamentarians. <ref>Wyndham Sydney Boundy, ''Bushell and Harman of Lundy'' (Gazette Printing Service, 1961)</ref>
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Electorate of Bavaria|Bavaria]], [[Electorate of Cologne|Cologne]], [[Kingdom of France|France]] and [[Sweden]] sign the [[Truce of Ulm]].
* [[March]] &ndash; Following the Treaty of Ulm that removed Bavaria from the Thirty Years War, the Bavarian troops' commander, Holy Roman Imperial General [[Johann von Werth]], defies [[Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria]], and von Werth attempts to move the Bavarian troops out of Bavaria and into Austria to come under Imperial jurisdiction.  The troops refuse, and von Werth flees to Austria. <ref>Sir Edward Cust, ''Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years' War: Warriors of the 17th Century'' (John Murray Publishing, 1865) pp. 457-458</ref>