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

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 – 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.

* May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( b. 1645 )

In 1645, an edited copy of Codex B was published in Le Jay's ( Paris ) Polyglot by Jean Morin.

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

Jean de La Bruyère () ( 16 August 1645 – 10 May 1696 ) was a French essayist and moralist.

Jean Rey ( c. 1583-c. 1645 ) was a French physician and chemist.

Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran, in a portrait from 1645 or 1646.

After studying at Montauban, Jean Claude entered the ministry in 1645.

* Jean Carnegie ( c. 1645 – 1679, married Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres in 1673 )

Jean de La Bruyère ( 1645 – 1696 )— inspired by Theophrastus's characters — composed his own collection of Characters ( 1688 ), describing contemporary moral types.

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

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

* January 6 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman ( d. 1645 )

* September 14 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer ( d. 1645 )

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* March 5 – François de Callières, member of the Académie française ( b. 1645 )

* Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba ( 1585 – 1645 ), Spanish military leader

* Hugo de Groot ( Hugo Grotius ), ( 1583 – 1645 ), jurist & philosopher

In the mid to late 1640s, Corneille produced mostly tragedies: La Mort de Pompée ( The Death of Pompey, performed 1644 ), Rodogune ( performed 1645 ), Théodore ( performed 1646 ), and Héraclius ( performed 1647 ).

A portrait of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, 1580 – 1645

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

In the late 17th century Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora ( 1645 – 1700 ) did some excavations around the Pyramid of the Sun.

es: Batalla de Nördlingen ( 1645 )

The production of spurious genealogies had already been begun in the Histoire de la maison d ' Auvergne published by Christophe Justel in 1645 ; and Chorier, the historian of Dauphiny, had included in the second volume of his history ( 1672 ) a forged deed which connected the La Tours of Dauphiny with the La Tours of Auvergne.

In his later years Desmarets devoted himself chiefly to producing a number of religious poems, of which the best known is perhaps his verse translation of the Office de la Vierge ( 1645 ).

Cappel was also the author of Annotationes et commentarii in Vetus Testamentum and other biblical works, as well as of several other treatises on Hebrew, among which are the Diatribe de veris et antiquis Ebraeorum literis ( 1645 ).

The last of his family in the male line was Louis XIV's famous general, Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme ( 1645 – 1712 ).

On 15 July 1645, he married " the incomparable Julie ," thus terminating a fourteen-year courtship famous in the annals of French literature because of the Guirlande de Julie, a garland of verses consisting of madrigals by Montausier, Claude de Malleville, Georges de Scudéry, Pierre Corneille ( if Octave Uzanne is correct in the attribution of three of the six poems signed M. C.