Editing 1646 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; The English House of Commons approves a bill to provide for Ireland to be governed by a single Englishman.
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bovey Heath]] in Devonshire: Oliver Cromwell's [[New Model Army]] surprises and routs the Royalist camp of [[Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth|Lord Wentworth]].
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet]], a Royalist fighting for Prince Charles against Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, is imprisoned for insubordination after proposing to make [[Cornwall]] self-governing in order to win Cornish support for the Royalists.  After being incarcerated at the tidal island of [[St Michael's Mount]] off of the coast of Cornwall, he is allowed to escape in March to avoid capture by Cromwell's troops.
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Francesco Molin]] is elected as the 99th [[Doge of Venice]] after 23 ballots, and governs the Venetian Republic for nine years until his death in 1655.
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester]] is approved by England's House of Commons as the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]]. 
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[First English Civil War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Torrington]]: A decisive [[Roundhead|Parliamentary]] victory is gained over the [[Cavalier|Royalist]]s.<ref>{{cite book | last = Edgar | first = F. T. R. | title = Sir Ralph Hopton: the King's man in the West (1642-1652): a study in character and command | publisher = Clarendon P | location = Oxford | year = 1968 | isbn = 9780198213727 | page=183 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; Roger Scott is tried in [[Massachusetts]] for sleeping in church.
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The future [[Charles II of England]] escapes from [[Cornwall]] into exile across the [[English Channel]].
* [[March 6]] &ndash; Joseph Jenkes obtains the first colonial machine patent, in Massachusetts.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; Start of the [[Battles of La Naval de Manila]], a series of five naval battles fought between the [[Dutch Republic]] and [[Spain]] in the waters of the [[Philippines]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 24]] &ndash; The [[Union of Uzhhorod|Union of Uzhorod]] brings the [[Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church|Ruthenian Greek Orthodox Church]] into the fold of the [[Catholic Church]] while allowing it to retain its [[Byzantine Rite|Eastern]] and [[Rusyns|Rusyn]] character.
* [[April 27]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] flees from [[Oxford]] (where he has been overwintering) in disguise and begins [[Charles I's journey from Oxford to the Scottish army camp near Newark|his journey to the Scottish army camp near Newark]].
* [[May 5]] &ndash; King Charles I of England surrenders his forces to a [[Scotland|Scottish]] army at [[Southwell, Nottinghamshire]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/261 261]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/261}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; American colonial poet [[Anne Bradstreet]] becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day [[North Andover]]), Massachusetts.
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: [[Habsburg Spain]] and the [[Dutch Republic]] sign a temporary cease-fire.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; Third [[Siege of Oxford]] concludes with signing of the surrender of the [[Cavalier|Royalist]] garrison at [[Oxford]] to General [[Thomas Fairfax]]'s Parliamentary [[New Model Army]]; on the 24th of June the main force marches out, ending the [[First English Civil War]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Civil War: Surrender of Oxford|url=http://oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/civil_war.html|work=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme|publisher=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board|year=2013|access-date=2014-10-10}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; The populist political movement called the [[Levellers]] appears in England with the publication of the Levellers manifesto, '' A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens'' by Richard Overton and William Walwyn.<ref>Martin Loughlin, ''Political Jurisprudence'' (Oxford University Press, 2017)</ref> 
* [[July 12]] &ndash; Lightning strikes the gunpowder tower of the castle of [[Bredevoort]] in the Netherlands, 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.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BywXAAAAYAAJ&q=bredevoort&pg=PA52|via=Google Books|title=Geldersche volks-Almanack ... met dedewerking van vele beoefenaars der geldersche geschiedenis|year=1868}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] &ndash; Commissioners of the [[Parliament of England]] and Scottish [[Covenanter]]s meeting in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] set out the [[Heads of Proposals]] ("Newcastle Propositions") demanding that [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics, as the basis for a constitutional settlement.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[August 19]]
**The [[Westminster Assembly]] of Divines, meeting in London, approves a resolution to begin the drawing up of the [[Westminster Confession of Faith]], declaring that "These heads of Faith, Repentance, and Good Works shall be referred to the three Committees in their order to prepare something upon them for the Confession of Faith.";<ref>"The Making of the Westminster Confession, and Especially of Its Chapter on the Decree of God", ''The Presbyterian and Reformed Review'' (April 1901) p. 253</ref> the draft is printed and sent to the Parliament of England in December.
**[[First English Civil War]]: [[Raglan Castle]] in [[Wales]] surrenders to [[General Fairfax]] after a 2-month siege; it is later destroyed.<ref>{{cite book | last = Manganiello | first = Stephen | title = The concise encyclopedia of the revolutions and wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660 | publisher = Scarecrow Press | location = Lanham, Md | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780810851009 | page=450 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; The new [[Orange College of Breda]] opens at [[Breda]] in the [[Dutch Republic]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; France takes [[Dunkirk]] from the [[Spanish Netherlands]] for the first time.
* [[October 28]] &ndash; The first [[Protestant]] church assembly for Native Americans (specifically, the [[Waban]] people) is held in Massachusetts.
* [[October 9]] &ndash; The Anglican [[episcopacy]] is formally abolished by an act of England's Parliament.<ref name=Richardson>M. A. Richardson, ''The Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences... Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham'' (M. A. Richardson, 1841) p. 277</ref><ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title= The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=181–182|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] enacts the death penalty as punishment for denying [[Biblical inspiration]].
* [[November 16]] &ndash; Following up on the abolition of the episcopacy, Parliament passes an act to sell the bishops' lands across the Commonwealth.<ref name=Richardson/>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau]] marries [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg]], on her 19th birthday at The Hague.
* [[December 23]] &ndash; The [[Covenanter]]s hand over King [[Charles I of England]] to the Parliamentarians.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
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