1645
| Years: 1642 1643 1644 – 1645 – 1646 1647 1648 | |
| Decades: 1610s 1620s 1630s – 1640s – 1650s 1660s 1670s | |
| Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century 1645 in topic: | |
Table of contents |
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)
Categories: 1645