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 literature 1645 in science

Events

• February 15 - New Model Army is founded officially
• 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

• Siege of Ragban Castle during the Civil War, see Abergavenny
• 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

Ongoing events

• English Civil War (1642-1649)

Births

• Captain William Kidd, Scottish privateer and alleged pirate

Deaths

• May 19 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
• July 22 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar
• Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel