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List of events
Events from the year
1646 in
England . This is the fifth and last year of the
First English Civil War , fought between
Roundheads (
Parliamentarians ) and
Cavaliers (
Royalist supporters of
King Charles I ).
Incumbents Events 9 January – Battle of
Bovey Heath :
Parliamentary troops secure a significant victory over the
Royalists in mid-
Devon .
12 January – Royalists abandon the siege of
Plymouth .
16 February – the
Battle of Torrington at
Great Torrington in north Devon, the last major battle of the
First English Civil War , gives a decisive Parliamentary victory over the Royalists.
2 March – the
Prince of Wales escapes from
Cornwall into exile.
13 March – Parliament captures Cornwall after Royalists surrender at
Truro .
[1]
21 March – last Royalist army in the field surrenders at
Stow-on-the-Wold , although individual fortresses still hold out.
[1]
13 April –
Exeter surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
[1]
19 April –
Barnstaple surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
27 April – King
Charles I flees from
Oxford (where he has been overwintering) in disguise and begins
his journey to the Scottish army camp near Newark .
5 May – King
Charles I surrenders his forces to a
Scottish army at
Southwell, Nottinghamshire .
[2]
20 June – Third
Siege of Oxford concludes with signing of the surrender of the
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 .
[2]
[3]
July –
John Lilburne is imprisoned for a second time, this time in the
Tower of London , for denouncing his former commander as a
traitor and Royalist sympathiser; the campaign to free Lilburne gives rise to the populist political movement called the
Levellers .
7 July –
Levellers
William Walwyn and
Richard Overton publish Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens calling for the abolition of the monarchy.
[2]
22 July – the
Siege of Worcester ends with the city's capture by the Parliamentary forces led by
Thomas Rainsborough .
[4]
27 July –
Wallingford Castle surrenders to Sir
Thomas Fairfax after a 65-day siege.
30 July – Commissioners of
Parliament and Scottish
Covenanters meeting in
Newcastle upon Tyne set out the
Heads of Proposals ("Newcastle Propositions") demanding that the King gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics, as the basis for a constitutional settlement.
[2]
August – The
Westminster Assembly of Divines begins to draw up the
Westminster Confession of Faith ; the draft is printed and sent to Parliament in December.
17 August – the garrison at
Pendennis Castle in Cornwall, the last mainland English Royalist stronghold, surrenders after a 155-day siege.
19 August –
Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester , surrenders
Raglan Castle in
Monmouthshire to
General Fairfax after a 2-month siege.
October – Anglican
episcopacy formally abolished.
[1]
23 December – the Covenanters hand over the King to the Parliamentarians.
[2]
25 December – scuffles in
Bury St Edmunds over the celebration of
Christmas .
[5] Publications Births Deaths 24 March –
Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet , Member of Parliament (born 1600)
20 July –
William Twisse , church leader (born 1578)
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 (bur.) –
William Dobson , portrait painter (born 1611)
18 December –
Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (born 1577) References