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Events from the year1649 in Ireland.

• Monarch:Charles I (until 30 January), monarchy abolished.

• 30 January
  • KingCharles I of England,Scotland andIreland is beheaded inLondon.^[1]
  • Prince Charles Stuart declares himself KingCharles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all three Kingdoms had not recognised him as ruler.
• 22 May–October –Robert Blake blockadesPrince Rupert's fleet inKinsale.
• 2 August –Battle of Rathmines – a combined Irish Confederate and English Royalist forcetrying to besiege Dublin is routed by the English Parliamentarians with heavy casualties.
• 15 August –Oliver Cromwell lands inDublin with theNew Model Army to begin theCromwellian conquest of Ireland.
• 3 September –Siege of Drogheda begins.
• 11 September – Sack of Drogheda: Cromwell takes the town and put itsIrish Catholic Confederation garrison to death.^[1]
• 2 October – siege ofWexford begins.
• 11 October –Sack of Wexford: Cromwell's forces take and sack the town, killing many of its defenders and several hundred civilians.
• 19 October –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.
• 19 November –Carrick-on-Suir taken by stealth by Cromwellian forces after they discover an undefended gate. An Irish counter-attack under Major Geoghegan on 24 November is repulsed with five hundred Irish Confederate soldiers killed.
• November 24 – Cromwell's army arrives beforeWaterford to besiege the city.
• 6 December –Battle of Lisnagarvey – a ScottishCovenanter force is routed by the English Parliamentarian New Model Army.
• 10 December – Cromwell calls off thesiege of Waterford and retires toYoughal: due to bad weather and disease, only 3,000 of his 6,500 besieging force are still fit for duty.

• 11 September –Arthur Aston, Royalist commander (killed during the sack of Drogheda), (b.1590)
• 6 November –Owen Roe O'Neill Irish Catholic general (dies of disease), (b.1590)
• December –Michael Jones, English Parliamentarian general (dies of disease at the siege of Waterford).

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