During World War II Frey worked on the Packard V-1650 version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine for Packard Motors, the engines to be sent to England for placement in the Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Also many of these engines and other aircraft surplus engines where heavily used even to this day in Drag Racing as well as Land Speed Racing at places like the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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1650 BC—The last Woolly mammoths become extinct on Wrangel Island.
Abraham Rovigo (born ca. 1650 in Modena, died 1713 in Mantua) was a Jewish scholar, rabbi and kabbalist.
Sarah was born on December 7, 1650, in Reading (now Wakefield), Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Its cemetery is where René Descartes was first buried in 1650, before his remains were moved to France.
In 1650, he was appointed to represent the Commonwealth of England in Spain, but he never presented his credentials to the Court as he was murdered by a group of six Royalists émigrés in an Inn in Madrid on 27 May.
In 1650, an Appomattoc guide called Pyancha took a party led by Abraham Wood beyond the headwaters of the river.
At the end of the preface to Tractatus de Rachitide, published in 1650, his initials are the last, following those of Francis Glisson, and George Bate.
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1650-1714), a queen-consort of Denmark and Norway
The Château du Raincy was constructed between 1643 and 1650 by Jacques Bordier, indendant des finances, on the site of a Benedectine priory on the road from Paris to Meaux, in the present-day commune of Le Raincy in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France.
Rabbi David ben Aryeh Leib of Lida (c.1650-1696) wrote works of rabbinic literature, including Sefer Shomer Shabbat and books on the 613 Mitzvot, bris milah, the Shulchan Aruch, the Book of Ruth, and Jewish ethics (Divrei David, 1671).
Deborah "Deb" Willet (1650–1678) was a young maid employed by Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament.
The Fort Walton Mound was probably built around 800 CE, although Charles H. Fairbanks who excavated the mound in 1960 believed it was built between 1500 and 1650 based on pottery sherds he uncovered and analyzed.
1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
He was registrar from 1641 to 1647, and president from 1650 to 1654, in the last of which years he was chosen, on the recommendation of William Harvey who declined the post.
Within a few year, De Queylus has established seminaries in his native region of Rodez (1647), as well as in Nantes (1649) and Viviers (1650).
Giovanni Battista Brevi (Bergamo, ca. 1650; Milan, after 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer.
In about 1650, he came to London, and gave himself up to study and research; he was befriended by some Catholic royalists and lived in close connection with them until his death in 1656.
Gustav Hamilton (c. 1650–1691), Swedish born noble, Irish Governor of Enniskillen
He studied music with Kindermann at the Sebaldusschule, and in 1650 himself became a teacher, effectively a Kantor without the title; from 1656 he was Director chori musici along with Paul Hainlein.
After the Peace of Rueil (11 March 1649) had ended the first phase of the civil war, Mazarin's sudden arrest of the Grand Condé, his brother the prince de Conti and their brother-in-law the duc de Longueville, on January 14, 1650 precipitated the next phase of the Fronde, the Fronde des nobles.
From 1649-1650 Dunster also served as interim pastor at The First Parish in Cambridge until the accession of Jonathan Mitchel.
Sir Henry Fane, MP (1650–1706) only son and heir of George Fane (1616-1663) and a grandson of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland.
The first architect of the Stanisławow fortress was from Avignon, Francisco Corasini at the time when Andrzej initiated the redesigning of the Zabolotiv and Knyahynyn villages into a fortress in 1650.
He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and afterwards at Amberg.
Jan Baptist Verrijt (Rotterdam c.1600-1650) was a Dutch composer and organist of the St. Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.
Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles, a French nobleman, was born at Aix, in Provence, in 1650, and was procurator-general of the parliament of that town.
It was translated into English by Alexander Ross, as Abridgement of Christian Divinitie (1650).
He was sent to Russia in 1650, where he obtained a loan of 20,000 rubles from the tsar, and, soon after his return, to the Netherlands, to procure military assistance.
Kiprijan Račanin or Cyprian of Rača (Кипријан Рачанин; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre, just like the one he left behind in Serbia at the commencement of the Great Turkish War in 1689.
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631 - 1660), eldest daughter of King Charles I; wife of William II, Prince of Orange (1626 - 1650)
Aelbert Cuyp, another Dutch artist, created the drawing known as A Milkmaid (ca. 1640–1650).
The clan’s fortunes went into eclipse when Ōoka Tadashina (1667–1710) so displeased Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi that he was exiled to Hachijojima and Ōoka Tadafusa (1650–1696) was forced to commit seppuku for killing a retainer of the Shimazu clan in a brawl.
In 1631 Carlone was resident in Röthelstein, where in 1650 he was described as a master stonemason.
Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.
René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (1650–1723), author and famous prisoner of the Bastille
Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).
"The Development of Sengoku Law" in Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650. John Whitney Hall, editor, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
It was only after the hall burned that it acquired the moniker "Saints' Rest", which came from the Puritan devotional The Saints' Everlasting Rest, written by Richard Baxter in 1650.
The lands of Saxe-Römhild went to the fourth son, who became Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (1650–1710).
The oldest surviving smock mill in England (dated to 1650) is located in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire.
Teodorico’s mother was Nicolosa Piccioni, born in Fermo on March 14th, 1650, daughter of another notary, Giovanni Francesco Piccioni, from Altidona.
At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.
According to the report of the commissioners, who, under the Act for Providing Maintenance for Preaching Ministers, visited Tavistock on 18 October 1650, Larkham was elected by the inhabitants, and presented by the Earl of Bedford.
Sir Thomas Scawen (c.1650 – 22 September 1730) was a British MP and Governor of the Bank of England.
Flakefield was, it is said, son of a native (named Wilson) of Flakefield, in the parish of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, who became a merchant in Glasgow about 1650.
In 1650 William II became involved in a bitter quarrel with the province of Holland and the powerful Regents of Amsterdam, Andries Bicker and his cousin Cornelis de Graeff.
William II, Prince of Orange (1626 – 1650), stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1647
In 1650 Duke Ernst the Pious appointed him to his court at Gotha as cantor and music tutor to his family, and he eventually rose to the post of Kapellmeister.