1645

1645 (MDCXLV) was a common year beginning on a Sunday, according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• June 28: In the framework of the English Civil War, the realists lose Carlisle.
• 13 August: Sweden and the kingdom of Denmark and Norway sign the Brömsebro treaty.
• 30 November: On the Philippine island of Luzon there is a destructive earthquake of 7.5 that leaves more than 600 dead and 3,000 wounded.
• 4 December: in Rome, Italy, a tornado (possibly an F4) leaves a balance of tens or hundreds of dead.
• In London, England, Parliament establishes the creation of the model New Army.
• The Russians arrive to the sea of Ojotsk.
• Blaise Pascal invents the pascaline, one of the first mechanical calculators of history.
• Hulst site during the Dutch war.
• Alejo I is appointed tsar of Russia.
• In Sonora, Mexico, the Jesuit missionary Cristóbal García, founded the mission of San Luis Gonzága de Bacadéhuachi, today the village of Bacadéhuachi.

Art and literature

• Juan Antonio Vincart: Relationship of the campaign of the year 1645concerning the war in Flanders.

Births

• February 24: Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (f. 1695)
• August 10: Eusebio Francisco Kino, Italian missionary and explorer (f. 1711)
• August 15: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, literato, astronomer and scientist novohispano (f. 1700).

Deaths

• January 19: Pedro de Orrente, Spanish painter (n. 1580)
• May 19: Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai.
• July 22: Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Conde-Duque de Olivares, validated by Felipe IV of Spain, great literary and artistic patrons.
• August 28: Hugo Grocio, jurist, writer and Dutch poet.
• September 8: Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer.
• September 16: San Juan Macías, a religious and holy Spanish Dominican, based in Peru (n. 1585).