1646

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century 17th century 18th century
Decades:	1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s
Years:	1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649

1646 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1646 MDCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2399
Armenian calendar	1095 ԹՎ ՌՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6396
Balinese saka calendar	1567–1568
Bengali calendar	1053
Berber calendar	2596
English Regnal year	21 Cha. 1 – 22 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar	2190
Burmese calendar	1008
Byzantine calendar	7154–7155
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4343 or 4136     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4344 or 4137
Coptic calendar	1362–1363
Discordian calendar	2812
Ethiopian calendar	1638–1639
Hebrew calendar	5406–5407
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1702–1703
- Shaka Samvat	1567–1568
- Kali Yuga	4746–4747
Holocene calendar	11646
Igbo calendar	646–647
Iranian calendar	1024–1025
Islamic calendar	1055–1056
Japanese calendar	Shōhō 3 (正保３年)
Javanese calendar	1567–1568
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3979
Minguo calendar	266 before ROC 民前266年
Nanakshahi calendar	178
Thai solar calendar	2188–2189
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1772 or 1391 or 619     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1773 or 1392 or 620

Year 1646 (MDCXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 16 – First English Civil War – The Battle of Great Torrington, Devon, the last major battle of the conflict, is fought.
• February 28 – Roger Scott is 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 6 – Poet Anne Bradstreet becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (now North Andover) Massachusetts.
• 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–December

• July 12 – Lightning strikes the gunpowder tower of the castle of Bredevoort, causing an explosion that destroys parts of the castle and the town, killing Lord Haersolte of Bredevoort and his family, as well as others. Only one son, Anthonie, who is not home that day, survives.
• July 30 – The English Parliament sets the Newcastle Propositions for King Charles I.
• August 19 – English Civil War – Raglan Castle surrenders to General Fairfax 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 enacts the death penalty for having a rebellious child.
• December 7 – Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries Frederick William of Brandenburg.
• December 21 – Global temperatures begin to decline as part of the Little Ice Age

Date unknown

• The Westminster Confession of Faith is published.

Births

• February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
• February 17 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
• February 23 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
• April 4 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
• April 15 – King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
• April 16 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
• April 26 – King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
• July 1 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (d. 1716)
• August 8 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
• August 19 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
• October 10 – Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French countess (d. 1705)
• December 26 – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)

Deaths

• March 11 – Stanisław Koniecpolski, Polish soldier and statesman (b. c. 1592)
• April 10 – Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
• August 19 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (b. c. 1583)
• September 1 – Francis Windebank, English statesman (b. 1582)
• September 14 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)
• September 24 – Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1565)
• October 4 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
• October 12 – François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)
• October 18 – Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
• October 28 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• November 29 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
• December 22 – Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
• December 23 – François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)