Editing 1649 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; In England, the [[Rump Parliament]] passes an ordinance to set up a High Court of Justice, to try Charles I for high treason.
* [[January 17]] &ndash; The [[Second Ormonde Peace]] concludes an alliance between the [[Cavaliers|Irish Royalists]] and the [[Irish Confederates]] during the [[War of the Three Kingdoms]]. Later in the year the alliance is decisively defeated during the [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]].
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Charles I of England]] goes on trial, for treason and other "[[high crimes]]".
* [[January 27]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]] is found guilty of high treason in a public session.   
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Serfdom in Russia]] begins legally as the [[Sobornoye Ulozheniye]] ({{lang|ru|Соборное уложение}}, "Code of Law") is signed by members of the [[Zemsky Sobor]], the parliament of the estates of the realm in the [[Tsardom of Russia]].  Slaves and free peasants are consolidated by law into the new hereditary class of "serfs", and the Russian nobility are given the exclusive privilege of owning the serfs.
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Execution of King Charles I|The deposed King Charles I is beheaded]] outside the Banquet Hall in the Palace of Whitehall, London. The [[Commonwealth of England]], with a republican form of government, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and members of the [[Long Parliament]] serve as government. [[Charles II of England|Charles, Prince of Wales]] declares himself as King of England, Scotland and Ireland pending restoration of the monarchy.<ref name=CharlesII>{{cite web |title=King Charles II: Biography on Undiscovered Scotland |url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/monarchs/charlesii.html |website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk |access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; In [[Edinburgh]], the Scottish Parliament declares [[Charles II of England|Prince Charles]], son of the recently executed [[Charles II of England|King Charles I]], as King Charles II of Scotland.  Prince Charles, at the time, is at sea in charge of royalist forces fighting to drive Oliver Cromwell from the British Isles.  Scotland is the first of the three Kingdoms to recognize his claim to the throne.<ref name=CharlesII />
* [[February 7]] &ndash; The English Parliament rejects a proposal to continue the English monarchy after [[Oliver Cromwell]] makes clear that he does not wish to be crowned as King of England.  <ref name=Worden>Blair Worden, ''The Rump Parliament 1648-1653'' (Cambridge University Press, 1974). pp. 171–172</ref> 
* [[February 22]] &ndash; The [[Mughal–Safavid War (1649–1653)|Mughal–Safavid War]] begins when [[Abbas II of Persia|Shah Abbas II]] of the [[Safavid Iran|Safavid Empire in Persia]] captures the Afghan city of [[Kandahar]] from the [[Mughal Empire]] of India after a six-week siege.   The Mughals, led by [[Shah Jahan]], fail to recapture Kandahar after three sieges in four years.
* [[March 4]] &ndash; The first ever set of rules and regulations for England's [[Royal Navy|Parliamentary Navy]], [[Robert Blake (admiral)|Robert Blake]]'s ''The Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea'', is adopted by the House of Commons,<ref>"House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 5 March 1649". Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648–1651. Institute of Historical Research. 1802.</ref> and Blake is promoted to the position of ''General at Sea'' of the English fleet.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Michael|last=Baumber|title=Blake, Robert (bap. 1598, d. 1657)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2582|access-date=2010-08-24|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2582}} </ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The rebel ''[[Fronde]]urs'' and the French government sign the [[Peace of Rueil]].
* [[March 15]] &ndash; The city of [[Lappeenranta]] ({{langx|sv|Villmanstrand}}) is founded by Queen [[Christina, Queen of Sweden|Christina of Sweden]].<ref>[https://www.fonecta.fi/profiili/lappeenrannan-kaupunki-tekniset-palvelut-ja-rakentaminen-tekninen-toimiala-kiinteisto-ja-mittausosasto/517300 Lappeenrannan kaupunki tekniset palvelut ja rakentaminen tekninen toimiala kiinteistö- ja mittausosasto – Fonecta] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://www.lappeenranta.fi/en/Our-City/History Lappeenranta: History]</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; An over 1,000 strong war party of [[Haudenosaunee]] Iroquois invade and burn the Huron mission villages of St. Ignace and St. Louis in present-day [[Simcoe County, Ontario]], killing about 300 people.
* [[March 17]]
**The [[Rump Parliament|English Parliament]], having voted February 7 against a proposal to continue the monarchy under Oliver Cromwell, passes the "[[Act abolishing the kingship|Act Abolishing the Kingship]]" with the goal of creating a republic under a Lord Protector selected by an elected Parliament. <ref name=Worden/>
**French colonists from [[Martinique]], led by former Martinique Governor [[Jacques Dyel du Parquet]], land at St. Georges Harbour on the island of [[Grenada]] for the founding of Fort Annunciation.  The fort is soon abandoned and the colonists cross the harbour for the founding of [[Fort Royal]] which eventually becomes the city of [[St. George's, Grenada]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Town of St. George's - 300 years.|url=https://www.gov.gd/articles/st_george/town_st_george.html|access-date=2018-11-15|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116001148/https://www.gov.gd/articles/st_george/town_st_george.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 19]] &ndash; The [[House of Commons of England]] passes an act abolishing the [[House of Lords]], which it describes in the act as "useless and dangerous to the people of England".<ref>{{cite web|title=March 1649 - An Act for the Abolishing the House of Peers.|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56321|access-date=2012-02-16}}</ref>