By January 1645 the Parliamentary forces in Coventry had strengthened their hold on the castle and attempts by Royalist forces to dislodge them from Warwickshire failed.

* January 31 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor ( b. c. 1645 )

* January 28 – John Fenwick, English conspirator ( b. c. 1645 )

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

This was rejected by the Lords on 13 January 1645.

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 ).

The castle was assaulted by Parliamentary forces in July 1643, and in January and April 1645.

Parliament commenced a new siege towards the end of January 1645 following more raiding, but this was relieved by Sir Marmaduke Langdale after about a month.

On 6 January 1645, the Committee of Both Kingdoms established the New Model Army, appointing Sir Thomas Fairfax as its Captain-General and Sir Philip Skippon as Sergeant-Major General of the Foot.

He is mentioned as having been elected a member of the Westminster Assembly on 31 January 1645.

Holles was also appointed a commissioner at the Treaty of Uxbridge in January 1645 and endeavoured to overcome the crucial difficulty of the militia by postponing its discussion altogether.

He organized a conference in Toruń ( Thorn ) that begun on 28 January 1645, but it failed to reach any meaningful conclusions.

It passed the House of Commons on 19 December but was thrown out by the Lords on 13 January 1645.

He secured some successes in the west, and in January 1645 advanced through Hampshire and occupied Farnham ; but want of money compelled him to retreat to Salisbury and thence to Exeter.

Hammond was chaplain to the royal commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge ( 30 January 1645 ), where he disputed with Richard Vines, one of the parliamentary envoys.

He was first in the service of Oliver St John, and, in January 1645, became a secretary to the parliamentary commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge.

Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet, of Scorborough ( died 3 January 1645 ), English parliamentarian, belonged to a Yorkshire family.

The younger Hotham was beheaded on 2 January 1645, and in spite of efforts made by the House of Lords and the Presbyterians to save him, the elder suffered the same fate on the following day.

The title Baron Lucas, of Shenfield in the County of Essex, was created 13 January 1645 for Sir John Lucas.

* January 19-Nicolas Lemery, French chemist ( born 1645 )

She was the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kérouaille ( d. 1690 ) and wife ( married on February 27, 1645 ) Marie de Ploeuc de Timeur ( d. January 1709 ), paternal granddaughter of René de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kérouaille et Villeneuve, and wife ( married on October 12, 1602 ) Julienne Emery du Pont-l ' Abbé, Dame du Chef du Bois, and maternal granddaughter of Sébastien de Ploeuc, Marquis de Timeur, and wife ( married on January 8, 1617 ) Marie de Rieux ( d. 1628 ).

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral ( 1540 – 27 January 1596 ) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era.

* Sir Kevin Tebbit ( January – July 1998 )

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948.

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In January 1906, he resumed his full-time naval career, first as an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty and, in August, as flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Sir George Egerton on.

* Sir Lyman Poore Duff ( as Chief Justice, ( March 17, 1933 – January 2, 1944 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, June 4, 1906 )

Nonetheless, self-government was achieved in January 1976 and after July 1976, Sir Peter Kenilorea became the Chief Minister who would lead the country to independence.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912 ) was a Dutch born, British painter.

* January 22 – Sir Count Michael Gonzi, Archbishop of Malta and past politician ( b. 1885 )

* January 17 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist ( b. 1822 )