Editing 1647 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; In England, a letter from the [[Agitators]] of the [[New Model Army]], protesting delay of pay, is read in the [[House of Commons of England|House of Commons]].
* [[May 13]] &ndash; The [[1647 Santiago earthquake]] rattles Chile.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; The [[Marquis of Argyll]] and David Leslie join forces to defeat [[Alasdair MacColla]], at Rhunahoarine Point in [[Kintyre]]. MacColla flees to Ireland; his followers are massacred.<ref>Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland 1644–1651, David Stevenson (Newton Abbott 1977)</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Michael Jones (soldier)|Michael Jones]], named Governor of Dublin by England's Parliamentarians, lands with 2,000 troops and begins the expulsion of Catholics and the arrest of Protestant royalists. 
* [[June 8]] &ndash; The Puritan rulers of England's [[Long Parliament]] pass the "Ordinance for abolishing all Holidays, and appointing other Days for Sports and Recreations for Scholars, Apprentices, and Servants, in their Room", confirming abolition of the feasts of [[Christmas]], [[Easter]] and [[Whitsun]], though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular [[holiday]].  The Act declares "Forasmuch as the Feasts of the Nativity of Christ, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and other Festivals, commonly called Holidays, have heretofore been superstitiously used and observed; be it ordained, That the said Feasts and Festivals be no loner observed within England and Wales."  <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n65CAAAAYAAJ&dq=1647+june+ordinance+holidays&pg=PA408 ''The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England''], Volume XV: From July 1, 1646 to June 22, 1647 (William Sandry, 1755) p. 408 </ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Christmas abolished! - Why did Cromwell abolish Christmas?|url=http://www.olivercromwell.org/faqs4.htm|work=Oliver Cromwell|publisher=The Cromwell Association|date=2001–2005|access-date=2011-10-23}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Puerto de Cavite]] begins in the Spanish Philippines when an armada of 12 large warships from the Dutch Republic sails into Manila Bay, with cannon fire hitting many of the roofs of the city.  The Spanish defending fleet drives off the Dutch after a two day battle.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans]], is crowned as the King of Hungary and Croatia at [[Bratislava|Pressburg]], now the Slovakian capital of [[Bratislava]]
* [[June 19]] &ndash; The [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond|Duke of Ormond]], the royalist governor of Dublin, concludes a treaty with the English Commonwealth's [[Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey|Earl of Anglesey]], handing over control of Dublin to the Commonwealth in return for the English promise to protect the interests of royalists, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, who had not joined in the Irish Rebellion.
* [[June 25]] &ndash; The "Remonstrance of The Army" is presented to the English parliament by former Royal Army supporters of King Charles I, pledging their loyalty to the new English Commonwealth.