What is 1648?
{{Year nav|1648}} {{Year in various calendars|1648}} {{Year article header|1648}} == Events == * January/October: The [[Thirty Years' War]] ended with the [[Peace of Westphalia]]. * [[October 24]] – [[Switzerland]] is recognized as an [[independence|independent]] [[country]] by the other countries of [[Europe]]. * [[Saint-Barthélemy]] was claimed by [[France]]. * The [[Eighty Years' War]] between the [[Netherlands]] and [[Spain]] ended. == Deaths == * [[March 12]] – [[Tirso de Molina]], [[Spain|Spanish]] [[dramatist]] and [[poet]] (b. [[1571]]) [[Category:1648| ]]