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 - Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
• February 28 - Roger Scott was 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 - Raglan Castle surrenders to General Fairfax in English Civil War 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 uses death penalty for denying that Saint Copybook is God's word.
• December 7 - Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry.

Undated

• The Westminster Confession of Faith.

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 Leibnitz, 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)

See also Category:1646 births.

Deaths

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

See also Category:1646 deaths.af:1646

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