Today in History for Year 1645

Months in Year 1645: January February March April June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 13 of 13

Mar 24th - Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III
Apr 2nd - Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
Apr 3rd - English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
Apr 7th - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
Jun 14th - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
Jul 10th - Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists
Jul 13th - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
Jul 23rd - Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
Aug 3rd - Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians
Aug 13th - Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro
Aug 30th - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
Sep 11th - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol
Nov 4th - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 12 of 12

Jan 28th - Gottfried Vopelius, composer
Feb 9th - Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716)
Mar 23rd - William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)
Aug 3rd - August Kuhnel, composer
Aug 10th - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
Aug 16th - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
Sep 10th - Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem Neth, painter/goldsmith
Sep 21st - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
Oct 26th - Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter (King David)
Nov 21st - Johann Lohner, composer
Nov 30th - Andreas Werkmeister, composer
Dec 27th - Giovanni Adb Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 16 of 16

Jan 10th - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded, for treason, in the Tower of London at 71
Apr 16th - Tobias Hume, English composer
Apr 19th - Anton van Diemen, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at about 51
Apr 19th - William Smith, composer, dies at 42
Jun 13th - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
Jul 17th - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
Jul 22nd - Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58
Jul 23rd - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies
Aug 6th - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
Aug 18th - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
Aug 28th - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
Aug 31st - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
Sep 2nd - lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded
Sep 8th - Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64
Sep 8th - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
Sep 14th - Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65