Events from the year1646 inEngland. This is the fifth and last year of theFirst English Civil War, fought betweenRoundheads (Parliamentarians) andCavaliers (Royalist supporters ofKing Charles I).

• Monarch –Charles I

• 9 January – Battle ofBovey Heath:Parliamentary troops secure a significant victory over theRoyalists in mid-Devon.
• 12 January – Royalists abandon the siege ofPlymouth.
• 16 February – theBattle of Torrington atGreat Torrington in north Devon, the last major battle of theFirst English Civil War, gives a decisive Parliamentary victory over the Royalists.
• 2 March – thePrince of Wales escapes fromCornwall into exile.
• 13 March – Parliament captures Cornwall after Royalists surrender atTruro.^[1]
• 21 March – last Royalist army in the field surrenders atStow-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 – KingCharles I flees fromOxford (where he has been overwintering) in disguise and beginshis journey to the Scottish army camp near Newark.
• 5 May – KingCharles I surrenders his forces to aScottish army atSouthwell, Nottinghamshire.^[2]
• 20 June – ThirdSiege of Oxford concludes with signing of the surrender of theRoyalist garrison atOxford to GeneralThomas Fairfax's ParliamentaryNew Model Army; on the 24th of June the main force marches out, ending theFirst English Civil War.^[2][3]
• July –John Lilburne is imprisoned for a second time, this time in theTower of London, for denouncing his former commander as atraitor and Royalist sympathiser; the campaign to free Lilburne gives rise to the populist political movement called theLevellers.
• 7 July –LevellersWilliam Walwyn andRichard Overton publishRemonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens calling for the abolition of the monarchy.^[2]
• 22 July – theSiege of Worcester ends with the city's capture by the Parliamentary forces led byThomas Rainsborough.^[4]
• 27 July –Wallingford Castle surrenders to SirThomas Fairfax after a 65-day siege.
• 30 July – Commissioners ofParliament and ScottishCovenanters meeting inNewcastle upon Tyne set out theHeads 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 – TheWestminster Assembly of Divines begins to draw up theWestminster Confession of Faith; the draft is printed and sent to Parliament in December.
• 17 August – the garrison atPendennis Castle in Cornwall, the last mainland English Royalist stronghold, surrenders after a 155-day siege.
• 19 August –Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester, surrendersRaglan Castle inMonmouthshire toGeneral Fairfax after a 2-month siege.
• October – Anglicanepiscopacy formally abolished.^[1]
• 23 December – the Covenanters hand over the King to the Parliamentarians.^[2]
• 25 December – scuffles inBury St Edmunds over the celebration ofChristmas.^[5]

• Thomas Browne's workPseudodoxia Epidemica,^[2] which introduces the word 'electricity' to the language.^[6]
• John Milton'sPoems (dated 1645).
• James Shirley'sPoems including the masqueThe Triumph of Beauty.^[2]
• John Suckling's playThe Goblins.

• 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)

• 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)

• 1646 in England
• Years of the 17th century in England

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