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1645 1646 1647
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Events
* February to August - Explorer
Abel Tasman's second expedition for the
Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of
Australia.
* April - A popular
China Chinese rebellion led by
Li Zicheng sacks
Beijing, prompting
Chongzhen Emperor of China Chongzhen, the last emperor of the
Ming Dynasty, to commit suicide.
*
June 6 - The invading
Manchu army, with the help of
Ming Dynasty Ming general
Wu Sangui, captures
Beijing, China. This marks the beginning of the
Qing Dynasty (also known as the Manchu Dynasty), the last
Dynasties in Chinese history imperial dynasty of China.
*
July 2 -
Battle of Marston Moor, a crushing victory for the
Parliamentarian Parliamentary side of the
English Civil War, ends
Charles I of England Charles I's hold on the north of
England.
*
September 1 -
Battle of Tippermuir,
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose Montrose defeats
Earl of Wemyss Elcho's
Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause in
Scotland
*
September 2 - Second
Battle of Lostwithiel, the last major victory for Charles I and the
Cavaliers Royalist side in the English Civil War.
*
September 15 -
Pope Innocent X is elected to the
Papacy, in
Rome.
*
November 23 - ''
Areopagitica'' by
John Milton is published.
* December -
Black Death Plague breaks out in
Edinburgh.
Unknown date
* The
opera ''
Ormindo'' is first performed in Venice. Music by
Francesco Cavalli and libretto by
Giovanni Faustini.
*
Kolumna Zygmunta (Sigismund's Column) erected in Warsaw to commemorate
Sigismund III of Poland King Zygmunt III Waza, who moved the capital of
Poland from
Kraków to
Warsaw in
1596.
*
Philosopher René Descartes publishes ''
Principia Philosophiae'' (Principles of Philosophy).
Ongoing events
*
English Civil War (
1642-
1649)
Births
*
January 10 -
Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d.
1711)
*
January 18 -
John Partridge (astrologer) John Partridge, English astrologer (d.
1708)
*
April 7 -
François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d.
1730)
*
June 16 -
Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland (d.
1670)
*
August 6 -
Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of
Louis XIV of France (d.
1710)
*
August 12 -
Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer and violinist (d.
1704)
*
September 25 -
Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d.
1710)
*
October 1 -
Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d.
1682)
*
October 2 -
François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d.
1724)
*
October 6 -
Elisabeth of France, queen of
Philip IV of Spain (b.
1602)
*
October 14 -
William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d.
1718)
*
Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (d.
1737)
*
Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (d.
1694)
''See also
:Category:1644 births.''
Deaths
*April -
Chongzhen Emperor of China Chongzhen, last Ming Emperor of China (suicide) (b.
1611)
*
April 10 - Reverend
William Brewster (Pilgrim) William Brewster, Pilgrim leader (b.
1567)
*
July 29 -
Pope Urban VIII (b.
1568)
*
September 7 -
Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian (b.
1579)
*
September 8 -
John Coke, English politician (b.
1563)
*September 8 -
Francis Quarles, English poet (b.
1592)
*
November 6 -
Thomas Roe, English diplomat
*
November 10 -
LuÃs Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b.
1579)
*
December 30 -
Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b.
1577)
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:Category:1644 deaths.''
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