1646

Year 1646 (MDCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1646

January - June

* February 16 - First English Civil War - The Battle of Great Torrington, Devon, the last major battle of the conflict, is fought.
* February 28 - Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church.
* March 6 - Joseph Jenkes, in Massachusetts, receives the first colonial machine patent.
* April 27 - King Charles I flees from Oxford.
* May 5 - King Charles I surrenders his forces at Scotland.
* May 30 - Spain and the Netherlands sign a temporary cease fire in the war.
* June 25 - The New Model Army of Thomas Fairfax occupies Oxford.

July - December

* July 30 - The English Parliament sets the Newcastle Propositions for King Charles I.
* August 19 - English Civil War - Raglan Castle surrenders to General Fairfax in after a 3 month siege. The castle is later destroyed.
* October 28 - The first Protestant church assembly for natives is held in Massachusetts (see Waban).
* November 4 - Massachusetts enacts the death penalty for denying that the Saints' Copybook is God's word.
* December 7 - Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries Frederick William of Brandenburg.

Undated

* The Westminster Confession of Faith is published.

Ongoing events

* Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War (1642-1649)

Births

* February 4 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
* February 17 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
* February 23 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
* April 4 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
* April 15 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
* April 16 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
* April 26 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
* July 1 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (d. 1716)
* August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
* August 19 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
* October 10 - Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French countess (d. 1705)
* December 26 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)

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Deaths

* March 11 - Stanisław Koniecpolski, Polish soldier and statesman (b. c.1592)
* April 10 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
* August 19 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (b. c.1583)
* September 1 - Francis Windebank, English statesman (b. 1582)
* September 14 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)
* September 24 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. c.1565)
* October 4 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
* October 12 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)
* October 18 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
* October 28 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
* November 29 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
* December 22 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
* December 23 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)

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