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1648
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1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1648th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 648th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1648, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Gregorian calendar | 1648 MDCXLVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2401 |
Armenian calendar | 1097 ԹՎ ՌՂԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6398 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1569–1570 |
Bengali calendar | 1055 |
Berber calendar | 2598 |
English Regnal year | 23 Cha. 1 – 24 Cha. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2192 |
Burmese calendar | 1010 |
Byzantine calendar | 7156–7157 |
Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4345 or 4138 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4346 or 4139 |
Coptic calendar | 1364–1365 |
Discordian calendar | 2814 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1640–1641 |
Hebrew calendar | 5408–5409 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1704–1705 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1569–1570 |
- Kali Yuga | 4748–4749 |
Holocene calendar | 11648 |
Igbo calendar | 648–649 |
Iranian calendar | 1026–1027 |
Islamic calendar | 1057–1058 |
Japanese calendar | Shōhō 5 / Keian 1 (慶安元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1569–1570 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3981 |
Minguo calendar | 264 before ROC 民前264年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 180 |
Thai solar calendar | 2190–2191 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1774 or 1393 or 621 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1775 or 1394 or 622 |
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The year 1648 has been suggested as possibly the last time in which the overall human population declined, coming towards the end of a broader period of global instability which included the collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Thirty Years' War, the latter of which ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.[1]