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Historical Events in 1646

  • Feb 16 Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War
  • Feb 28 Roger Scott tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
  • Mar 6 Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts

Charles I Flees Oxford

Apr 27 On the verge of defeat, King Charles I flees Oxford for a Scottish army camp close to Southwell near Newark-on-Trent

Event of Interest

Jun 25 Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford

  • Jul 30 English parliament sets King Charles I Newcastle Propositions
  • Jul 31 Royalist supporters besieged at Goodrich Castle surrender to Parliamentarian forces, during English Civil War, after castle partly destroyed by 'Roaring Meg' an enormous mortar (canon) [1]
  • Sep 5 First public library in the Americas established when Bishop Palafox y Mendoza donates his personal library of 5,000 volumes to Tridentine colleges in Puebla, Mexico [1]
  • Oct 28 First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
  • Nov 4 Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God's word