11th May » Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland called Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonization of the Americas named Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
26th May » Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a Witchcraft called witch in the British American colonies.
4th June » Canonicus Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe dies. He was Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Tribe (rivals to the Wampanoag) at the time of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth.
Famous Birthdays in 1647
2nd January » Nathaniel Bacon (colonist) known as Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)
7th January » William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
12th March » Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1st April » John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
2nd April » Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist (d. 1717)
20th June » John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
2nd July » Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1730)
12th August » Johann Heinrich Acker, German pastor and educator (d. 1719)
22nd August » Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)
23rd September » Joseph Dudley, American politician, List of colonial governors of Massachusetts e.g Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1720)
18th November » Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706)
4th December » Daniel Eberlin, German composer and conductor (d. ca. 1715)
Famous Deaths in History for 1647
29th January » Francis Meres, English author (b. 1565)
14th March » Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
21st May » Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)
26th May » Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
12th June » Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)
7th July » Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut (b. 1586)