1645

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years:	1642 1643 1644 - 1645 - 1646 1647 1648

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Year 1645 (MDCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1645

April 3 - Lords pass Self-Denying Ordinance.
April 10 - Because of the plague, Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be brought forward so that students can leave the city (in November 19, teaching continues in Linlithgow).
April 23 - English Civil War: 150 Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles, were captured at sea by parliamentarians who celebrated St George's Day by joyfully killing them all at Pembroke.
May 9 - Covenanters are defeated by Montrose at the Battle of Auldearn.
June 1 - English Civil War: Prince Rupert's army sacks Leicester.
June 10 - English Civil War: Cromwell is confirmed as Lieutenant-General of Cavalry.
June 14 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
June 28 - English Civil War: The Royalists lose Carlisle.

July 2: Fight at Alford, Aberdeenshire.
July 10 - English Civil War: Cromwell wins the Battle of Langport, Somerset.
July 23 - Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar of Russia comes to the throne.
August 13 - Treaty of Brömsebro is signed between Sweden and Denmark-Norway ceding Jemtland, Herjedalen, Gotland and Ösel (Saaremaa) to Sweden, and holding the province of Halland for a period of 30 years as a guarantee.
September 10 - English Civil War: Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol.
September 13 - Covenanters defeat Montrose at the Battle of Philiphaugh, Selkirk.
September 24 - English Civil War: Parliamentarians defeat the Royalist cavalry at the Battle of Rowton Heath.

October 8 - English Civil War: Final crushing of Basing house begins.
October 8: Jeanne Mance founds the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first hospital in North America.
October 11 - English Civil War: The re-fortification of Bourne, Lincolnshire castle begins against threatened Royalist attack.

Siege of Raglan Castle occurs during the English Civil War.
The Long Parliament outlaws the 1559 version of the Book of Common Prayer.
Beginning of the Maunder Minimum, a time period when sunspots became exceedingly rare.

Founding of the Stolberg-Wernigerode branch of the family of counts of Stolberg and Wernigerode in Germany.
Wallpaper begins to replace tapestries as a wall decoration.
Bamana forces from Segou invade the Mali heartland destroying the Mali Empire after its 400 years as a unified state.
In the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan builds the Pearl Mosque at Lahore Fort.

August 10 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (died 1711)
August 16 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (died 1696)
September 21 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (died 1700)
unknown date - Gian Antonio Fumiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1710)
probable - Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate (died 1701)