1644 Calendar
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1644 Historical Event(s)
April 25, 1644
– The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
May 28, 1644
– Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
June 6, 1644
– The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established.
June 29, 1644
– Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
July 2, 1644
– English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
September 1, 1644
– Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
October 27, 1644
– Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
November 23, 1644
– John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
Who Were Born On 1644?
January 10, 1644
– Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
April 7, 1644
– François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
June 16, 1644
– Henrietta Anne Stuart, French-born Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
August 6, 1644
– Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
August 12, 1644
– Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)
September 25, 1644
– Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
October 1, 1644
– Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
October 2, 1644
– François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
October 14, 1644
– William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)