1646

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years:	1643 1644 1645 - 1646 - 1647 1648 1649

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).

[edit] Events of 1646

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 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.

See also Category:1646 births.

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)

See also Category:1646 deaths.

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s
Years:	1643 1644 1645 - 1646 - 1647 1648 1649