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==Events==
* [[January 10]] – [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[William Laud]] executed for [[treason]] on [[Tower Hill, London]].
* [[January 14]] – [[English Civil War]]: [[Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron|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 (1645)|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]].
* [[March 31]] – Fearing the spread of the [[Black Death|plague]], [[Edinburgh]] Town Council bans all gatherings except [[wedding]]s and [[funeral]]s
* [[April 3]] – [[House of Lords|Lords]] pass [[Self-Denying Ordinance]].
* [[April 10]] – Because of the plague, [[Edinburgh]] town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be brought forward so that students can leave the city (in [[November 19]], teaching continues in [[Linlithgow]])
* [[April 23]] – [[English Civil War]]: 150 Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles, were captured at sea by parliamentarians who celebrated [[St George's Day]] by joyfully killing them all at [[Pembroke]].
* [[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 [[Kingdom of England|Royalist]] forces are beaten by 15,000 [[Long Parliament|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 [[sunspot]]s became exceedingly rare
* Founding of the Stolberg-Wernigerode branch of the family of counts of Stolberg and [[Wernigerode]] in [[Germany]]
* [[Wallpaper]] begins to replace [[tapestry|tapestries]] as a wall decoration
* Mechanical [[Calculator|calculating machine]] invented by [[Blaise Pascal]].

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