Timeline August 1649

Events in August 1649 3

• 1649 Battle of Rathmines Parliamentarian victory secures Dublin before Cromwell's arrival On 2 August 1649, parliamentarian forces under Michael Jones routed a Royalist and Irish Confederate army besieging Dublin. The victory secured the city as a base and allowed Oliver Cromwell to land unopposed two weeks later. It is considered a turning point enabling the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
• 1649 Cromwell Lands in Ireland Start of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland Oliver Cromwell landed at Dublin on 15 August 1649 with a parliamentary army to crush Irish Confederate and Royalist resistance. The campaign that followed was marked by brutal sieges and is remembered in Ireland for its lasting devastation. It would continue until 1653.
• 1649 Treaty of Zboriv Truce between the Polish Crown and Cossack rebels Signed on 18 August 1649, the Treaty of Zboriv ended a campaign in the Khmelnytsky Uprising, granting the Cossack Hetmanate under Bohdan Khmelnytsky expanded autonomy within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The agreement enlarged the register of Cossacks eligible for state pay and barred Polish troops and Jesuits from Cossack-held territory. The settlement proved fragile and fighting resumed within two years.