1646

Events of 1646

February 16 - Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
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 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.

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)