1646 in England
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Events from the year 1646 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - King Charles I of England
[edit] Events
- 13 March - Parliament captures Cornwall after Royalists surrender at Truro.[1]
- 21 March - Last Royalist army in the field surrenders at Stow-on-the-Wold, although individual fortresses still hold out.[1]
- 13 April - Exeter surrenders to Parliamentary forces.[1]
- 5 May - King Charles I surrenders to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.[2]
- 25 June - Parliamentary forces capture the Royalist stronghold of Oxford ending the First English Civil War.[2]
- 7 July - Levellers William Walwyn and Richard Overton publish Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens calling for the abolition of the monarchy.[2]
- 22 July - The Siege of Worcester ends with the city's capture by the Parliamentary forces led by Thomas Rainsborough.[3]
- 30 July - In Newcastle upon Tyne Parliamentary commissioners and Scottish Covenanters demand that the King gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics.[2]
- October - Anglican episcopacy formally abolished.[1]
- 23 December - the Covenanters hand over the King to the Parliamentarians.[2]
[edit] Publications
- Thomas Browne's work Pseudodoxia Epidemica.[2]
- James Shirley's Poems including the masque The Triumph of Beauty.[2]
- John Suckling's play The Goblins.
[edit] Births
- 19 August - John Flamsteed, astronomer (died 1719)
- 9 November - John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, politician (died 1701)
- 27 November - Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, politician (died 1692)
[edit] Deaths
- 24 March - Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600)
- 1 September - Francis Windebank, statesman (born 1582)
- 14 September - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (born 1591)
- 4 October - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, statesman (born 1586)
- 28 October - William Dobson, painter (born 1610)
- William Twisse, clergy (born 1578)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 181-182. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 261. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ 1646, British Civil Wars. Retrieved on 2007-09-14.
