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| Years: 1642 1643 1644 - 1645 - 1646 1647 1648 | |
| Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
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Events
- January 10 - Archbishop Laud executed on Tower Hill.
- January 14 - English Civil War: Fairfax appointed Commander-in-Chief.
- January 29 - English Civil War: Armistice talks opened at Uxbridge.
- February 2 - Covenanters defeated by Montrose at the Battle of Inverlochy
- February 15 - English Civil War: New Model Army is founded officially
- February 29 - English Civil War: Uxbridge armistice talks failed.
- March 4 - English Civil War: Prince Rupert left Oxford for Bristol.
- April 3 - Lords pass Self-Denying Ordinance.
- May 9 - Covenanters defeated by Montrose at the Battle of Auldearn.
- June 1 - English Civil War: Prince Rupert' army took sacked Leicester
- June 10 - English Civil War: Cromwell 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 won the Battle of Langport, Somerset.
- July 23 - Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar of Russia came to the throne.
- September 10 - English Civil War: Prince Rupert surrendered Bristol.
- September 13 - Covenanters defeated Montrose at the Battle of Philiphaugh, Selkirk.
- September 24 - English Civil War: Parliamentarians defeated Royalist cavalry at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
- October 8 - English Civil War: Final crushing of Basing house begun.
- 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 against threatened Royalist attack, was begun.
- Siege of Raglan Castle 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
- Battle of Lepanto
- Wallpaper begins to replace tapestries as a wall decoration
- Mechanical calculating machine invented by Blaise Pascal.
Ongoing events
Births
- Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate (d. 1701)
Deaths
- January 10 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
- May 19 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
- July 22 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares (b. 1587)
- August 28 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
- Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (b. 1606)af:1645
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