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1636 In England
Events from the year 1636 in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles I * Secretary of State – Sir John Coke Events * 3 March – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of the privileged presses. * 8 September – New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later renamed ' Harvard'. * 9 October – John Hampden refuses to pay ship money after a third writ is issued. * Unknown – Completion of excavation of Old Bedford River (begun in 1630). * Unknown – Roger Williams founds the new English colony Rhode Island in North America * Unknown – Construction concluded on the Jacobean mansion Crewe Hall Births * 29 June – Thomas Hyde, orientalist (died 1703) * 29 September – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715) * 7 October – Edward Wetenhall, bishop (died 1713) * 1 December – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, noblewoman (died 1718) * 27 December – John Dormer, born Hud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1636
Events January–March * January 1 – Anthony van Diemen takes office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645. * January 18 – ''The Duke's Mistress'', the last play by James Shirley, is given its first performance. * February 21 – Al Walid ben Zidan, Sultan of Morocco, is assassinated by French renegades. * February 26 – Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as King Alvaro VI of Kongo, in the area now occupied by the African nation of Angola, and rules until his death on February 22, 1641. * March 5 (February 24 Old Style) – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway gives an order, that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as galley rowers. * March 13 (March 3 Old Style) – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press, as the second of the privileged presses in England. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crewe Hall
Crewe Hall is a Jacobean mansion located near Crewe Green, east of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire,Pevsner & Hubbard, p. 22 it is listed at grade I. Built in 1615–36 for Sir Randolph Crewe, it was one of the county's largest houses in the 17th century, and was said to have "brought London into Cheshire". The hall was extended in the late 18th century and altered by Edward Blore in the early Victorian era. It was extensively restored by E. M. Barry after a fire in 1866, and is considered among his best works.de Figueiredo & Treuherz, pp. 66–71 Other artists and craftsmen employed during the restoration include J. Birnie Philip, J. G. Crace, Henry Weekes and the firm of Clayton and Bell. The interior is elaborately decorated and contains many fine examples of wood carving, chimneypieces and plasterwork, some of which are Jacobean in date. The park was landscaped during the 18th century by Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1592 In England
Events from the 1590s in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Elizabeth I * Parliament – 8th of Queen Elizabeth I (starting 18 February, until 10 April 1593), 9th of Queen Elizabeth I (starting 24 October 1597, until 9 February 1598) Events *1590 ** Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry ''The Faerie Queene'' and his satire ''Mother Hubbard's Tale''. ** Publication of Thomas Lodge's prose tale ''Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie''. * 1591 ** 10 April – merchant James Lancaster sets off on a voyage to the East Indies. ** 22 July – the Durtnell (Dartnell) family of Brasted, Kent, begin to work as building contractors. The business continues under thirteen generations of the family until ceasing to trade in 2019. ** 30 August–1 September – Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604): Battle of Flores off Flores Island (Azores) – the fleet of Spain is victorious over the English; English ship ''Revenge'' is captured on 1 September (and Richard Grenville fatally wounded) but soo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Puckering
Sir Thomas Puckering, 1st Baronet (1592 – 20 March 1637) was an English landowner, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. Puckering was the son of Sir John Puckering and his wife Jane Chowne, daughter of George, or Nicholas Chowne of Kent. His father was Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Educated at Warwick School, he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father on 30 April 1596. After five years in the household of Prince Henry, who was tutored by Thomas's brother-in-law, Adam Newton, in September 1610 he travelled to Paris, meeting the English ambassador Sir Thomas Edmondes. He was created baronet on 25 November 1611 and knighted on 3 June 1612. In 1621 Puckering was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth. He was Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1623. In 1625 he was elected MP for Tamworth again, and was re-elected in 1626 and 1628. He sat until 1629 when King Charles decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1700 In England
Events from the year 1700 in England. Incumbents * Monarch – William III * Parliament – 4th of King William III (until 19 December) Events *27 February – the island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier in the western Pacific. *early March – William Congreve's comedy ''The Way of the World'' is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields. *24 March – Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland. *24 June – responsibility for vagrants passes from churchwardens to parish constables under terms of the Vagrant Removal Costs Act (1698). *29 July – Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged eleven leaving the Protestant succession to the Crown in doubt. *September – while in the Netherlands, William III meets his cousin Sophia at Het Loo Palace. This is a precursor to the Act of Settlement of the following year that opens the way to the future succession of the House of Hanover. *20 Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dormer (Jesuit)
John Dormer (1636–1700) was an English Jesuit. Life Dormer, whose real name was Huddleston, was a son of Sir Robert Huddleston, knight. According to his own statement he was born in the village of Cleovin ( Clavering?), Essex, on 27 December 1636, and brought up in London until his twelfth year, when he was sent to the College of St. Omer. Later he entered the English College, Rome, on 6 September 1665. He left that institution to join the novitiate at Bonn in 1656, and in 1673 he became a professed father of the Society of Jesus. He was generally known by the name of Dormer, but he occasionally assumed the alias of Shirley. In 1678 he was serving on the Lincolnshire mission at Blyborough Blyborough is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 115. It lies on the B1398 road, east from Gainsborough, north from Lincoln and south f .... James II had a high regard for him, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1718 In Great Britain
Events from the year 1718 in Great Britain. Incumbents * Monarch – George I * Parliament – 5th Events * 7 January – Religious Worship Act 1718 repeals the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 and Schism Act 1714, restoring some freedoms to dissenters. * 15 May – James Puckle patents the Puckle Gun. * 2 August – Quadruple Alliance formed between Britain, the Kingdom of France, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic. * 11 August – a British fleet under Admiral Byng defeats a Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro, a prelude to the War of the Quadruple Alliance. * 24 November – 'Calico Jack' Rackham becomes captain of the pirate sloop ''Ranger'' in The Bahamas. * 17 December – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Britain, the Kingdom of France, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic declare war on Spain. Undated * The Proper motion of stars discovered by Edmond Halley. * Marrow Controversy, an ecclesiastical dispute in Scotland, begins. * Greenwich Hospit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Capell, Countess Of Essex
Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex (1 December 1636 – 5 February 1718; née Percy) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland. She was the wife of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex. Elizabeth was the subject of a portrait by court painter Sir Peter Lely. Family Lady Elizabeth was born on 1 December 1636 at Petworth Manor, Sussex, England, one of the five daughters of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland by his first wife, Lady Anne Cecil. She had one older surviving sister, Anne who married Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. Her paternal grandparents were Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, known by his sobriquet of The Wizard Earl, and Dorothy Devereux, the sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Elizabeth's maternal grandparents were William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and Lady Catherine Howard. When Elizabeth was just a year old, her mother died; her father married secondly in 1642, Lady Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1713 In Great Britain
Events from the year 1713 in Great Britain. Incumbents * Monarch – Anne * Parliament – 3rd (until 8 August), 4th (starting 12 November) Events * 27 March – First Treaty of Utrecht between Britain and Spain. Spain cedes Gibraltar and Menorca. * 11 April – Second Treaty of Utrecht signed between Britain and France ending the War of the Spanish Succession. France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts. * 14 April – first performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play '' Cato, a Tragedy''. * 7 July – Handel's "Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate" is performed at a service in St Paul's Cathedral to commemorate the Peace of Utrecht * July to August – General election results in a Tory victory. Undated * Board of Longitude established. * John Rowley of London produces an orrery to a commission by Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery. Publications * Matthew Hale – ''The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England'', the first published his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wetenhall
Edward Wetenhall (1636–1713) was an English bishop of the Church of Ireland. His name is also spelled Wettenhall, Whetenhall, Whitnall, Withnoll, and Wythnall. Life Wetenhall was born at Lichfield on 7 October 1636. Educated at Westminster School under Richard Busby, he was admitted as a king's scholar in 1651, and went to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a foundation scholar. After graduating B.A. 1659–60, he migrated (1660) to Lincoln College, Oxford, of which he became chaplain, was incorporated B.A. 18 June, and graduated M.A. 10 July 1661. Wetenhall held the perpetual curacy of Combe Long, Oxfordshire, and the vicarage of St. Stephen's, near St Albans, Hertfordshire; on 11 June 1667 he was collated to a prebend at Exeter, holding with it the mastership (headmaster) of the blue-coat school. He graduated B.D. at Oxford 26 May 1669, and was incorporated B.D. at Cambridge 1670. Michael Boyle the younger, the Archbishop of Dublin, brought him over to Dublin in 1672, as m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1715 In Great Britain
Events from the year 1715 in Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain. Incumbents * List of British monarchs, Monarch – George I of Great Britain, George I * Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament – 4th Parliament of Great Britain, 4th (until 15 January), 5th Parliament of Great Britain, 5th (starting 17 March) Events * February to March – 1715 British general election, General election results in victory for the British Whig Party, Whigs. * 27 March – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke flees to France. His part in secret negotiations with France leading to the Treaty of Utrecht has cast suspicion on him in the eyes of the Whigs (British political party), Whig government. He becomes Secretary of State (Jacobite), Secretary of State to the Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, James Edward Stuart. * 3 May – A total solar eclipse is seen across southern England and Scandinavia, the last total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years. * 10 June ** Impeachment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archbishop Of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justin Welby, who was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013. Welby is the 105th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to Augustine of Canterbury, the "Apostle to the English", sent from Rome in the year 597. Welby succeeded Rowan Williams. From the time of Augustine until the 16th century, the archbishops of Canterbury were in full communion with the See of Rome and usually received the pallium from the pope. During the English Reformation, the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope. Thomas Cranmer became the first holder of the office following the English Reformation in 1533, while Reginald Pole was the last Roman Catholic in the position, serving from 1556 to 1558 during the Counter-Reformatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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