Timeline October 1646

Events in October 1646 3

• 1611 – 1646 William Dobson (1611-1646) Died 28 October 1646, aged 35 Dobson was the leading English portrait painter of the 1640s, succeeding Anthony van Dyck as principal painter to Charles I during the Civil War. Working from the Royalist wartime capital at Oxford, he painted many of the king's commanders. He died in London shortly after the war's end, reportedly in poverty.
• 1646 Qing forces capture and kill the Longwu Emperor Southern Ming resistance collapses in Fujian Qing troops captured the Longwu Emperor, a claimant to the Southern Ming throne, at Tingzhou in Fujian in October 1646, and he died shortly after at the hands of his captors. His fall came only months after he had been enthroned at Fuzhou. Ming loyalist resistance in the south continued under other claimants.
• 1646 French capture of Dunkirk Spanish-held port falls to France French forces captured the fortified port of Dunkirk from Spain on 11 October 1646, during the Franco-Spanish War fought alongside the Thirty Years' War. The city's capture strengthened French control of the Flemish coast. Spain would not recover it permanently.