Editing 1648 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[First Battle of Guararapes]]: The Portuguese army defeats the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] army, in the north of [[Brazil]].
* [[May 12]] &ndash; Construction of the [[Kaunghmudaw Pagoda]] is completed in the Kingdom of Burma on the 6th waning of Kason, 1010, near the end of the reign of King [[Thalun]]. ''Hmannan Yazawin'' <ref>(1829, reprinted by the Myanmar Ministry of Information) Vol. 3, p. 245</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Münster]] is ratified by both the United Netherlands and the Spanish Empire.
* [[May 16]] &ndash; England's Commonwealth Army massacres 70 [[Cornwall|Cornish]] royalists at [[Penzance]], leading to [[The Gear Rout|a rebellion]] against England's Parliamentarians. 
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Wladyslaw IV Vasa]], [[King of Poland]] and [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]], dies after a reign of 15 years.  The throne remains vacant for six months until Wladyslaw's younger half-brother, [[John II Casimir Vasa]], is elected by Poland's Parliament.
* [[June 1]] &ndash; The [[Roundheads]] defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; Russian explorer [[Semyon Dezhnyov]] departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the [[Bering Strait]], between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Fisher, Raymond H.|title=The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648|location=London|publisher=[[Hakluyt Society]]|year=1981|isbn=0-904180-07-7}}</ref>