Editing 1646 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; The populist political movement called the [[Levellers]] appears in England with the publication of the Levellers manifesto, '' A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens'' by Richard Overton and William Walwyn.<ref>Martin Loughlin, ''Political Jurisprudence'' (Oxford University Press, 2017)</ref> 
* [[July 12]] &ndash; Lightning strikes the gunpowder tower of the castle of [[Bredevoort]] in the Netherlands, causing an explosion that destroys parts of the [[castle]] and the town, killing Lord Haersolte of Bredevoort and his family, as well as others. Only one son, Anthonie, who is not home that day, survives.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BywXAAAAYAAJ&q=bredevoort&pg=PA52|via=Google Books|title=Geldersche volks-Almanack ... met dedewerking van vele beoefenaars der geldersche geschiedenis|year=1868}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] &ndash; Commissioners of the [[Parliament of England]] and Scottish [[Covenanter]]s meeting in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] set out the [[Heads of Proposals]] ("Newcastle Propositions") demanding that [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics, as the basis for a constitutional settlement.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[August 19]]
**The [[Westminster Assembly]] of Divines, meeting in London, approves a resolution to begin the drawing up of the [[Westminster Confession of Faith]], declaring that "These heads of Faith, Repentance, and Good Works shall be referred to the three Committees in their order to prepare something upon them for the Confession of Faith.";<ref>"The Making of the Westminster Confession, and Especially of Its Chapter on the Decree of God", ''The Presbyterian and Reformed Review'' (April 1901) p. 253</ref> the draft is printed and sent to the Parliament of England in December.
**[[First English Civil War]]: [[Raglan Castle]] in [[Wales]] surrenders to [[General Fairfax]] after a 2-month siege; it is later destroyed.<ref>{{cite book | last = Manganiello | first = Stephen | title = The concise encyclopedia of the revolutions and wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660 | publisher = Scarecrow Press | location = Lanham, Md | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780810851009 | page=450 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; The new [[Orange College of Breda]] opens at [[Breda]] in the [[Dutch Republic]].