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1649

• Muhammad’s The Koran is published
• Oliver Cromwell’s troops disperse the Diggers
• Cromwell’s troops suppress the Irish
• Richard Crashaw dies (August 21)
• Imprisoned and tried for crimes against England, Charles I is found guilty by a Cromwellian court and beheaded (January 30)