* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )

Others who anticipated the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey ( 1583 – 1645 ), Joseph Black ( 1728 – 1799 ), and Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ).

* 1645 – Eusebio Kino, Italian missionary ( d. 1711 )

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

* 1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, German composer, father to Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1695 )

* 1645 – Johann Christoph Bach, German musician ( d. 1693 )

* 1645 – Johann Aegidius Bach, German violist ( d. 1716 )

The English Civil War, 1642 – 1645, led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with the repeal of the Royal Patent in August 1641.

Maps of territory held by Cavalier | Royalists ( red ) and Roundhead | Parliamentarians ( green ) during the English Civil War ( 1642 – 1645 )

King Houegbadja ( c. 1645 – 1685 ) organized Dahomey into a powerful centralized state.

* 1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12, 000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15, 000 Parliamentarian soldiers.

* 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.

* 1596 – Michael I of Russia ( d. 1645 )

* 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman ( d. 1645 )

* 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1573 )

In his autobiography, Malpighi speaks of his Anatome Plantarum, decorated with the engravings of Robert White ( 1645 – 1703 ) as " the most elegant format in the whole literate world.

Ceremony, Portrait and Print, 1645 – 1661 ( 2000 ), shows how people compared Cromwell to King Ahab, King David, Elijah, Gideon and Moses, as well as Brutus and Julius Caesar.

* 1573 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1645 )

* 1645 – Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.

This led to securing the offices of protonotary apostolic, president of the apostolic chamber, commissary of the Marco di Roma, and governor of Macerata ; on 6 March 1645, Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ) made him Cardinal-Deacon with the deaconry of Santi Cosma e Damiano.

* October 7 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1645 )

In England, those executed after the passing of attainders include George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence ( 1478 ), Thomas Cromwell ( 1540 ), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ( 1540 ), Catherine Howard ( 1542 ), Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley ( 1549 ), Thomas Howard ( 1572 ), Thomas Wentworth ( 1641 ), Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud ( 1645 ), and the Duke of Monmouth.

* Agustin, ( Genoa, 1597 – Sevilla, 12 / 2 / 1649 ), Bishop of Tortosa 1625, Archbishop of Granada 1627, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela 1630, Archbishop of Sevilla 1645.

William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury was executed in 1645 after being prominently involved in debates about church architecture and internal décor.

* William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury: beheaded at the Tower, buried 1645

* William Laud ( 1573 – 1645 ), Archbishop of Canterbury

Laurentius Paulinus Gothus ( November 10, 1565 – November 29, 1646 ) was a Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala ( 1637 – 1645 ).

There are many editions of the Life of the Archbishop, and it appeared in French ( Paris, 1663, 1679 and 1825 ), in Italian ( 1727 – 1728 ), in Spanish ( Madrid, 1645 and 1727 ) and in English ( London, 1890 ).

) As such, in the House of Lords, Pembroke voted in favour of the bill of attainder against Archbishop Laud in 1645, but in 1646 voted to reject a petition in favour of presbyterianism submitted by the City of London.

** William Lithgow, Scottish traveller ( d. 1645 )

* William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ), Prominent Leader and Governor of the Plymouth colony, in office 1621 – 1633, 1635 – 1636, 1637 – 1638, 1639 – 1644, 1645 – 1657

** William Strode, English parliamentarian ( d. 1645 )

* April – William Lawes, English composer and musician ( d. 1645 )

** William Browne, English poet ( d. 1645 )

* May 23 – Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate ( b. 1645 )

The city was again occupied briefly from 23 April to 18 May 1643 by Parliamentarians commanded by Sir William Waller but it was in 1645 that the city saw most action.

Portrait of the Artist with Nicholas Lanier and Sir Charles Cottrell by William Dobson, circa 1645.

* Sir William de Boreel, 1st Baronet, of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands ( 1645 )-the 8th Baronet also became Jonkheer in the Dutch nobility, extant

* William Smith ( composer ) ( 1603 – 1645 ), English composer from the city of Durham

She became the second wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1645, when he was a marquess.

On 7 January 1645 he addressed a letter to William Prynne, attacking the intolerance of the Presbyterians, and claiming freedom of conscience and freedom of speech for the independents, Prynne, bitterly incensed, procured a vote of the Commons summoning Lilburne before the committee for examinations ( 17 January 1645 ).

He reluctantly placed them under arrest and put them in The Tower, executing Wentworth in 1641 ( for which Charles I never forgave himself since he was close to Thomas Wentworth ) and William Laud in 1645.

Cromwell wrote a letter from “ Haverbrowe, June 14, 1645 ” to the Speaker of the House of Commons, William Lenthall, announcing the victory.

:* Anne married Sir William Savile, 3rd baronet ( 1629 ) and then Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole ( 1645 )

William Strode ( 1598 – 1645 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1624 and 1645.

On the other hand he is to be distinguished from Colonel William Strode ( of Barrington ), also parliamentarian and M. P., who died in 1666 ; and from William Strode ( 1602 – 1645 ), the orator, poet and dramatist.