History
1645
General
Population: 545 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Calseron "El gran teatro del mundo", Corneille (tragedy), Vitzentzos Kornaros (Cretan poem), John Milton,
Paul Scarron (comedy), Sir Kenelm Digby (bodies and souls), Lord Herbert of Cherbury De causis errorum,
Art includes Jacob Jordaens "Wife of Candaules", Rembrandt "The Rabbi", Teniers "Tavern Scene", Velazquez "King Philip IV on a Boar Hunt"
Music includes Sacrati (opera), Heinrich Schutz (oratorio),
- Deaths: Statesman Hugo Grotius, Navigator Anthony van Diemen, Czar Michael Romanov
Dutch occupy St. Helena,
Africa
- General: Capuchin monks sail up Congo river
- Mauritius: Dutch establish settlement on island of Mauritius and start killing dodo birds
Asia
- China: Manchu forces advance from the north, completing conquest of China
- Tibet: Dalai Lama residence being built at Lhasa
Europe
- General: Peace talks open between Holy Roman Empire and France at Munster and Osnabruck
- England: In English civil war, parliamentarians defeat royalists - peace talks at Uxbridge fail
Preliminary meetings of London scientists which will lead to foundation of Royal Society in 1662
Cromwell and New Model Army defeats Royalists at Naseby and Langport
- France: Lully made violinist at French court
Mazarin calls Venetian opera company to Paris
- Holland: Jacob van Campen builde Niewe Kerk Haarlem
- Holy Roman Empire: Candian War between Venice and Ottoman Turks until 1669 over Crete
- Italian States: U of Palermo founded
- Russia: Death of Michael Romanov first Romanov Czar - Alexis I rules
- Sweden: "Ordinarie Post-Tidende" begins to appear in Stockholm
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Candian War between Venice and Ottoman Turks until 1669 over Crete