Events

• The Westminster Confession of Faith

Ongoing events

• Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War (1642-1649)

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 archistect (d. 1708)
• April 26 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
• July 1 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (d. 1716)
• August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1723)
• August 19 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
• December 26 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)

See also Category:1646 births.

Deaths

• March 11 - Stanislaw Koniecpolski, Polish soldier and statesman
• April 10 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
• August 19 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
• 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
• 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)

See also Category:1646 deaths.

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