1646

This page relates to the year 1646 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

Africa

Asia

  • China:
    • the Manchu , benefitting from the dissensions between the Ming take the Zhejiang and the Fujian.
    • November 18th: The last Ming is proclaimed emperor under the name of Zhu Yongli (fine in 1662). It resists around Canton with the assistance of the Portuguese of Nicolas Fereira. Yongli and its family convert with the Christianisme.

Europe

  • the Swedes with their French allies take Prague and invade the Bavaria.

France

See also: 1646 in France

  • Series of cold and wet summers (1646 - 1650). Late grape harvest in France.

British Isles

  • fresh and rainy Years (1646-1650). Bad harvests accompanied by a epizooty among the bovines. The cereal prices increase to culminate after 1650.

Poland

  • Ladislas IV of Poland wants to eliminate the Tatars from the Othoman Ukraine and to beat the . For that it is necessary for him to mobilize the Cosaques in their granting privileges, but it runs up against the resistance of the tycoons to the diets of 1646 and 1647. Disappointed, the Cossacks raise in 1648.

Russia

  • Mars: Russian embassy in Poland: the tsar proposes with Ladislas IV Vasa a junction of the Cosaques of the Don with those of the Dniepr and the co-operation of the Russian and Polish troops to invade the the Crimea.
  • the Douma of the Boyard S is gradually eliminated with the profit from a cautious advice, the “Duma of the room” or “council intimates boyards”.

  • Creation of the department of the secret businesses. It will become the instrument of control of the administration.
  • the tsar orders the construction of a system of cities strengthened in the provinces of Bielgorod and Simbirsk.
  • Census of the houses imposed, increase in the tax rates and the taxes, creation of a tax on salt.
  • Suppression of the commercial franknesses granted to the English merchants at the time of Ivan IV and Boris Godounov.

Religion

  • Opening of the first of the small schools of Port-Royal, street Saint-Dominique-D' Hell with Paris.
  • Nikon becomes archimandrite of the monastery of Saint-Saver with Moscow. The tsar entrusts the service of the petitions to him and sends it to Novgorod to negotiate with the magistrates of the city.

Art & culture

  • Steps to the Temple , of the poet Richard Crashaw.
  • honourable Trade , of the Nantes Jean Eon.

See also: 1646 with the theater

  • February 20th: Anne of Austria poses the first stone of the news church Saint-Sulpice in Paris. It will be completed only in 1788, a hundred and forty two years afterwards.

  • Mars: Jean-Baptiste Lully unloads in Paris.

Births in 1646

Death in 1646

Easter Day

  • April 1st: Sunday of Easter
  • For other religious holidays, to see Comput

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