1646 in England - Events

Events

  • 9 January - Battle of Bovey Heath: Parliament secures a significant victory over the Royalists in Devon.
  • 12 January - Royalists abandon the siege of Plymouth.
  • 16 February - The Battle of Torrington at Great Torrington in Devon, the last major battle of the First English Civil War, gives a decisive Parliementary victory over the Royalists.
  • 2 March - The Prince of Wales escapes from Cornwall into exile.
  • 13 March - Parliament captures Cornwall after Royalists surrender at Truro.
  • 21 March - Last Royalist army in the field surrenders at Stow-on-the-Wold, although individual fortresses still hold out.
  • 13 April - Exeter surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
  • 19 April - Barnstaple surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
  • 27 April - King Charles I flees from Oxford.
  • 5 May - King Charles I surrenders his forces to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
  • 24 June - Oxford surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
  • 25 June - Thomas Fairfax's Parliamentary New Model Army captures the Royalist stronghold of Oxford ending the First English Civil War.
  • 7 July - Levellers William Walwyn and Richard Overton publish Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens calling for the abolition of the monarchy.
  • 22 July - The Siege of Worcester ends with the city's capture by the Parliamentary forces led by Thomas Rainsborough.
  • 27 July - Wallingford Castle surrenders to Sir Thomas Fairfax after a 65-day siege.
  • 30 July - In Newcastle upon Tyne Parliamentary commissioners and Scottish Covenanters demand that the King gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics.
  • 17 August - The garrison at Pendennis Castle in Cornwall, the last mainland English Royalist stronghold, surrenders after a 155-day siege.
  • 19 August - Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester, surrenders Raglan Castle in Wales to General Fairfax after a 2-month siege.
  • October - Anglican episcopacy formally abolished.
  • 23 December - The Covenanters hand over the King to the Parliamentarians.
  • 25 December - Scuffles in Bury St Edmunds over the celebration of Christmas.

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