1646 in England

Events from the year 1646 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

Monarch - King Charles I of England

Events

* 13 March - Parliament captures Cornwall after Royalists surrender at Truro.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 181-182|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 21 March - Last Royalist army in the field surrenders at Stow-on-the-Wold, although individual fortresses still hold out.
* 13 April - Exeter surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
* 5 May - King Charles I surrenders to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=261]
* 25 June - Parliamentary forces capture the Royalist stronghold of Oxford ending the First English Civil War.
* 7 July - Levellers William Walwyn and Richard Overton publish "Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens" calling for the abolition of the monarchy.
* 22 July - The Siege of Worcester ends with the city's capture by the Parliamentary forces led by Thomas Rainsborough. [cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1646.htm|title=1646, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-14]
* 30 July - In Newcastle upon Tyne Parliamentary commissioners and Scottish Covenanters demand that the King gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics.
* October - Anglican episcopacy formally abolished.
* 23 December - the Covenanters hand over the King to the Parliamentarians.

Publications

* Thomas Browne's work "Pseudodoxia Epidemica".
* James Shirley's "Poems" including the masque "The Triumph of Beauty".
* John Suckling's play "The Goblins".

Births

* 19 August - John Flamsteed, astronomer (died 1719)
* 9 November - John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, politician (died 1701)
* 27 November - Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, politician (died 1692)

Deaths

* 24 March - Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600)
* 1 September - Francis Windebank, statesman (born 1582)
* 14 September - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (born 1591)
* 4 October - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, statesman (born 1586)
* 28 October - William Dobson, painter (born 1610)
* William Twisse, clergy (born 1578)

References

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