Important Events in 1645
- Apr 3 English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army
- Jun 14 Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire: "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I
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Charles I
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- Jan 10 William Laud, English Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded, for treason, in the Tower of London at 71
- Apr 16 Tobias Hume, Scottish composer (The First Part of Ayres), dies
- Apr 19 Anton van Diemen, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at about 51
- Apr 19 William Smith, British composer, dies at 42
- Jun 13 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
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