What is 1645?
{{Year nav|1645}} {{Year in various calendars|1645}} {{Year article header|1645}} ==Events== * [[January 10]] – [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[William Laud]] executed for [[treason]] on [[Tower Hill, London]]. * [[January 14]] – [[English Civil War]]: [[Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron|Fairfax]] appointed Commander-in-Chief. * [[January 29]] – [[English Civil War]]: [[Armistice]] talks opened at [[Uxbridge]]. * [[February 2]] – [[Covenanters]] defeated by Montrose at the [[Battle of Inverlochy (1645)|Battle of Inverlochy]] * [[February 15]] – [[English Civil War]]: [[New Model Army]] is founded officially * [[February 29]] – [[English Civil War]]: Uxbridge armistice talks failed. * [[March 4]] – [[English Civil War]]: [[Prince Rupert]] left [[Oxford]] for [[Bristol]]. * [[March 31]] – Fearing the spread of the [[Black Death|plague]], [[Edinburgh]] Town Council bans all gatherings except [[wedding]]s and [[funeral]]s * [[April 3]] – [[House of Lords|Lords]] pass [[Self-Denying Ordinance]]. * [[April 10]] – Because of the plague, [[Edinburgh]] town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be brought forward so that students can leave the city (in [[November 19]], teaching continues in [[Linlithgow]]) * [[April 23]] – [[English Civil War]]: 150 Irish soldiers bound for service with King Charles, were captured at sea by parliamentarians who celebrated [[St George's Day]] by joyfully killing them all at [[Pembroke]]. * [[May 9]] – [[Covenanters]] defeated by Montrose at the [[Battle of Auldearn]]. * [[June 1]] – [[English Civil War]]: Prince Rupert' army took sacked Leicester * [[June 10]] – [[English Civil War]]: Cromwell confirmed as Lieutenant-General of Cavalry. * [[June 14]] – [[English Civil War]]: [[Battle of Naseby]] – 12,000 [[Kingdom of England|Royalist]] forces are beaten by 15,000 [[Long Parliament|Parliamentarian]] soldiers * [[June 28]] – [[English Civil War]] – the Royalists lose [[Carlisle]]. * [[July 2]]: Fight at [[Alford, Aberdeenshire]]. * [[July 10]] – [[English Civil