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Events from the year 1649 in Ireland. ==Events== * January 30 * * King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded in London. * * Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all three Kingdoms had not recognised him as ruler. * May 22–October - Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale. * August 2 - Battle of Rathmines - A combined Irish Confederate and English Royalist force trying to besiege Dublin is routed by the English Parliamentarians with heavy casualties. * August 15 - Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin with the New Model Army to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. * September 3 - Siege of Drogheda begins. * September 11 - Sack of Drogheda: Cromwell takes the town and put its Irish Catholic Confederation garrison to death.〔 * October 2 - Siege of Wexford begins. * October 11 - Sack of Wexford: Cromwell's forces take and sack the town, killing many of its defenders and several hundred civilians. * October 19 - New Ross falls to the English Parliamentarian forces. * November (early) - Battle of Arklow: An Irish force attacks Cromwell's army as it marches south but is beaten off. * November 19 - Carrick-on-Suir taken by stealth by Cromwellian forces after they discover an undefended gate. An Irish counter-attack under Major Geoghegan on November 24 is repulsed with five hundred Irish Confederate soldiers killed. * November 24 - Cromwell's army arrives before Waterford to besiege the city. * December 6 - Battle of Lisnagarvey - A Scottish Covenanter force is routed by the English Parliamentarian New Model Army. * December 10 - Cromwell calls off the siege of Waterford and retires to Youghal: due to bad weather and disease, only 3,000 of his 6,500 besieging force are still fit for duty. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1649 in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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