Saul Attacking David by Guercino (1591-1666)
In the year 1646, Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church (Feb 28), King Charles I of England surrenders his forces to a Scottish army in Nottinghamshire (May 5), France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time (Oct 10), global temperatures begin to decline, as part of the Little Ice Age (Dec 21), Scottish Covenanters hand over King Charles to the Parliamentarians (Dec 23), the Italian painter Guercino paints Saul Attacking David - and all these fine people were born:
1646-xxxx David Makeléer* nobleman/ soldier/civil servant - Sweden (1708/62)
1646-0106 Jan van Cleve (III)* Flemish painter - Venlo, Netherlands (1716/70)
1646-0210 Hans Adam Weissenkircher* Austrian painter - Laufen an der Salzach, Bavaria (1695/48)
1646-0217 Pierre Le Pesant* sieur de Boisguilbert/lawmaker/one of the inventors of the notion of an economic market - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1714/68)
1646-0223 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi* 徳川 綱吉 the fifth shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty/great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu - Edo, Japan (1709/62)
1646-0319 Michael Kongehl* German baroque poet - Kreuzburg, Prussia (1710/64)
1646-0325 Nils Strömberg af Clastorp* (b Brattman) soldier/ Governor-General of Swedish Estonia - Jönköping, Sweden (1723/77)
1646-0404 Antoine Galland* orientalist/archaeologist/first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights - Rollot, Kingdom of France (1715/68)
1646-0415 Christian V of Denmark* king of Denmark and Norway - Duborg Castle, Flensburg, Kingdom of Denmark (1699/53)
1646-0416 Jules Hardouin-Mansart* Baroque architect/builder - Paris, France (1708/62)
1646-0420 Charles Plumier* botanist - Marseille, Kingdom of France (1704/58)
1646-0529 Isaac Johannes Lamotius (B) governor of Mauritius/ ichthyologist - Beverwijk, Dutch Republic (1718/c.72) dates in dispute
1646-0606 Hortense Mancini* known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as one of the Mazarinettes – Rome, Papal States (1699/53)
1646-0630 Paul Hermann* physician/botanist - Halle (1695/48)
1646-0701 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz* German polymath/ scientist /diplomat - Leipzig, Electrorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1716/70)
1646-0808 Godfrey Kneller* portrait painter – Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire (1723/77)
1646-0819 John Flamsteed* astronomer who laid the foundation stone for the Royal Greenwich Observatory – Denby, Derbyshire, England (1719/73)
1646-0916 Juan Romero de Figueroa* Roman Catholic priest/active in Gibraltar during the last years of Gibraltar’s Spanish period and first ones of the British period - Gibraltar, Spain (1720/73)
1646-1003 Joseph Parrocel* battle scenes painter - Brignoles, Kingdom of France (1704/57)
1646-1108 Cresheld Draper* politician/MP - England (1694/47)
1646-1109 John Egerton* nobleman/politician/MP - England (1701/54)
1646-1226 Robert Bolling* wealthy early American settler/planter/ merchant/first marriage to the granddaughter of Pocahontas - Tower Street, London, England (1709/62)
Updated 20.9.2021-1
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