Historical Events in 1646
- Feb 16 Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War
- Feb 28 Roger Scott tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
- Mar 6 Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts
- Apr 27 On the verge of defeat, King Charles I flees Oxford for a Scottish army camp close to Southwell near Newark-on-Trent
- May 5 King Charles I surrenders in Scotland
- May 30 Spain & Netherlands sign temporary cease fire
- Jun 25 Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford
- Jul 30 English parliament sets King Charles I Newcastle Propositions
- Jul 31 Royalist supporters besieged at Goodrich Castle surrender to Parliamentarian forces, during English Civil War, after castle partly destroyed by 'Roaring Meg' an enormous mortar (canon) [1]
- Sep 5 First public library in the Americas established when Bishop Palafox y Mendoza donates his personal library of 5,000 volumes to Tridentine colleges in Puebla, Mexico [1]
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Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
John FlamsteedFamous People Who Died in 1646
- Jan 6 Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
- Mar 20 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
- Apr 10 Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
- Aug 19 Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
- Aug 28 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
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Famous Weddings in 1646
- Dec 7 Princess Louise Henriette (19) of Nassau marries Frederick Henry Elector of Brandenburg
Rembrandt van Rijn
Charles I
Louis XIV