* 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 ).

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 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.

* 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.

* March 15 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary ( b. 1645 )

Eusebio Francisco Kino, S. J., ( 10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711 ) was a Jesuit priest from a town which is now a part of northern Italy.

* probable – Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter ( d. c. 1645 )

Originally published at Florence in 1645 in Italian, they represent a collection of all contemporary naval knowledge.

Bartoli's celebrated first work, L ' huomo di lettere ( 1645 ), a literary vademecum for its time, became a Baroque best seller in Italian and in numerous translations, over thirty editions appearing during his lifetime.

The work was first published in Italian at Florence in 1645 and 1646 in three folio volumes.

It was mentioned in an Italian context in 1645, by John Evelyn at the cloister of Trinità dei Monti in Rome and used by him in an English context in 1654, when, in the company of the fifth Earl of Pembroke, Evelyn watched the coursing of hares from a " pergola " built on the downs near Salisbury for that purpose.

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 ).

Francesco Bracciolini ( November 26, 1566 – August 31, 1645 ) was an Italian poet.

On April 24, 1645, Edward married in Paris a French princess of Italian extraction, Anna Gonzaga ( 1616 – 1684 ).

He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy ( 1645 – 1730 ), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.

* St. John Macias ( d. 1645 )

* 1645 – Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer ( d. 1700 )

* 1580 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician ( d. 1645 )

** Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia ( d. 1645 )

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

** Feng Menglong, Chinese poet ( d. 1645 )

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

** Thomas Carew, English poet ( d. 1645 )

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

** Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant ( d. 1645 )

* July 12 – Michael I of Russia ( d. 1645 )

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

** Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist ( d. c. 1645 )

* September 22 – Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel ( d. 1645 )

* October 6 – Marie de Gournay, French writer ( d. 1645 )

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