1645
Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
Years: 1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 - 1645 - 1646 1647 1648 1649 1650
Events
- July 2: Fight at Alford[?], Aberdeenshire
- Siege of Ragban Castle[?] during the Civil War, see Abergavenny
- The Long Parliament outlaws the 1559 version of the Book of Common Prayer
- Beginning of the Maunder Minimum, a time period when sunspots became exceedingly rare
- Founding of the Stolberg-Wernigerode branch of the family of counts of Stolberg and Wernigerode in Germany
Births
- Captain William Kidd, Scottish privateer and alleged pirate
Deaths
- Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
- May 19 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
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after him in her shrillest tone. But poor Nicholas! As he went
roguish wind--or perhaps it was one of the bugaboos that were known to
into the very doorway of the tavern that he had been warned, under
and tobacco went into his nostrils. His resolution, if he had one,
him to another; he was bound to do as much for them; shilling by
was heard to make a muttered assertion that it was his own money anyhow,
mutterings grew faint and merged into snores. When he awoke it was at
he saw there two strangers,--sailors, he thought, from their leather
said? Gold? On the marshes? At the old Flatlands tide.html">tide-mill? The
when the idea had fairly eaten its way into his intellect, he arose with
left the place. He crunched back to his home, and seeing nobody astir
thence continued with all consistent speed to the tumbledown tide-mill
hope and schnapps impelled him.
He reached the mill, and, hastening to the cellar, began to probe in.
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