1646

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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).

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Events of 1646

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1646

January - June

★ 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)
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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)
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