Events from the
1620s in
England
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. This decade sees a change of monarch.
Incumbents
*
Monarch
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–
James I James I may refer to:
People
*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
*James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
*James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu
*James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
*James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...
(until 27 March 1625), then
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
*
Parliament
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–
3rd of King James I (starting 16 January 1621, until 8 February 1622),
4th of King James I (starting 12 February 1624, until 27 March 1625),
Useless (starting 17 May, until 12 August 1625),
2nd of King Charles I (starting 6 February, until 15 June 1626),
3rd of King Charles I (starting 17 March 1628, until 10 March 1629)
Events
* 1620
**27 April – treaty with Spain arranges marriage between the
Prince of Wales
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and Infanta
Maria Anna of Spain
, house = Habsburg
, father = Philip III of Spain
, mother = Margaret of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = El Escorial, Spain
, death_date =
, death_place = Linz, Austria
, burial_place = Imperial Crypt
, ...
in return for relaxation of laws concerning
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
s.
[
**3 July – Captain ]Andrew Shilling
Andrew Shilling ( 1566 – 1 January 1621), was a naval commander in the fleet of the English East India Company (EIC).
Biography Early life
Shilling was born in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk and christened on 30 July 1566, the son of Henry Shilling ...
, on behalf of the Honourable East India Company
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, lays claim to Table Bay
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in Africa
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.
**15 July – the armed merchant ship ''Mayflower
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'' embarks about 65 emigrants for New England at or near her home port of Rotherhithe
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on the Thames east of London.
**c. 19 July – the ''Mayflower'' anchors in Southampton Water
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to rendezvous with the '' Speedwell'' which on 22 July (1 August NS) sets out from Delfshaven
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The town of Delfshaven grew around the port of the city of Delft. Delft itself was not located on a major river ...
carrying English separatist Puritans
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from Leiden
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, arriving on 26 July. On or about 5 August the ships set sail, but the ''Speedwell'' is found to be leaking.[
**12 or 13 August – the ''Mayflower'' and ''Speedwell'' put into ]Dartmouth, Devon
Dartmouth () is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the ...
, for repairs to the ''Speedwell''.
**23 August – the ''Mayflower'' and ''Speedwell'' set out from Dartmouth; they are well out into the Atlantic when the ''Speedwell'' is again found to be leaking.[
**28 August – the ''Mayflower'' and '' Speedwell'' return again to England, anchoring off ]Plymouth
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Plymouth ...
in the Cattewater
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The Cattewater is that stretch of water where the mout ...
; the latter ship is given up as a participant in the voyage and on 2 September departs for London, with most of her passengers and stores having been transferred to the ''Mayflower''.[
**6 September (16 September NS) – the '']Mayflower
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'' leaves Plymouth carrying the Pilgrims to Cape Cod
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in North America
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, where they land on 11 November. She carries 41 "saints" (English separatists largely from Holland), 40 "strangers" (largely secular planters from London), 23 servants and hired workers, and c. 30 crew.
** Publication of ''Novum Organum
The ''Novum Organum'', fully ''Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera de Interpretatione Naturae'' ("New organon, or true directions concerning the interpretation of nature") or ''Instaurationis Magnae, Pars II'' ("Part II of The Great Instauration ...
'' by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...
.
** Cornelius Drebbel
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel ( ) (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, op ...
demonstrates the first navigable submarine
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in the River Thames
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; his third is first demonstrated on 12 September 1624.
** A severe frost freezes the Thames.
* 1621
**16 January – the Parliament of England
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sits for the first time since 1614.
**3 May – Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London
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on charges of corruption; he is pardoned by King James I James I may refer to:
People
*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
*James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
*James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu
*James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
*James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...
later in the year.
**4 July – 70-year-old James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough
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, marries 17-year-old Jane Boteler, niece of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and possibly also a lover of King James I of England. Buckingham remained at the ...
as his second wife.[''BBC History'', July 2011, p12.]
**24 July – while hunting at Bramshill
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, George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally kills a keeper with his crossbow. A royal commission of inquiry narrowly finds in his favour.
**22 November – poet John Donne
John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a clergy, cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's ...
is installed as Dean of St Paul's
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The current dean is Andrew Tremlett, ...
Cathedral in London.
**18 December – the House of Commons
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protests against the King's right to imprison Members of Parliament
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who criticise his foreign policy
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.
**27 December – Sir Edward Coke
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History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...
imprisoned for his part in the Protestation.
**30 December – King James tears the page bearing the Protestation from the House of Commons Journal.
**Spring–October (approx.) – '' Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France'', one of the first English language
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newspapers (translated from the Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
), circulates in London.
** Francis Mitchell
Francis Mitchell (c. 1556 – died in or after 1628) was the last English knight of the realm to be publicly degraded (stripped of his knighthood), after being found guilty of extorting money from licensees following his being granted monopol ...
becomes the last British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
knight
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of the realm to be publicly degraded (stripped of his knighthood) after being found guilty of extorting
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money from licensee
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s of his monopoly
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on the licensing of inns.
** Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
engineer Cornelius Vermuyden
Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (Sint-Maartensdijk, 1595 – London, 11 October 1677) was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch land reclamation methods to England. Vermuyden was
commissioned by the Crown to drain Hatfield Chase in the Isle of Axholme, ...
appointed by the King to drain parkland around Windsor Castle
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The original cast ...
and begins reclamation of Canvey Island
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.
** The University of Oxford Botanic Garden
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, the oldest botanical garden
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in the British Isles
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, is founded as a physic garden
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History
Modern botanical gardens were preceded by medieval physic gardens, often monastic gardens, that existed by 800 at least. Gardens of ...
by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby
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Life
He was the second son of Sir John Danvers, Knt., of Daunts ...
.
** Robert Burton
Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, who wrote the encyclopedic tome ''The Anatomy of Melancholy''.
Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burt ...
publishes his treatise ''The Anatomy of Melancholy
''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' (full title: ''The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Ph ...
''.
* 1622
**6 January (probably) – the Banqueting House, Whitehall
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, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson
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's ''The Masque of Augurs
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A second performance of the masque, with textual revisions by Jonson, occu ...
'' designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones
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As the most notable archit ...
.
**7 January – John Pym
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arrested for criticizing the King in Parliament.
**8 February – King James I disbands Parliament.
**22 February – a patent
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is granted for Dud Dudley
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B ...
's process for smelting
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iron ore
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with coke.
**22 March – in the Jamestown massacre
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, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia
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(33% of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus
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settlement.
**23 May – Nathaniel Butter
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begins publication in London of ''Newes from Most Parts of Christendom'' or ''Weekly News from Italy, Germany, Hungaria, Bohemia, the Palatinate, France and the Low Countries'', one of the first regular English language
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newspapers.
**25 May – the East India Company
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ship ''Tryall
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'' sinks when it hits the Tryal Rocks
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reef off Australia. 94 out of the 143 crew die.
**William Oughtred
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invents the slide rule
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.
** William Burton's ''Description of Leicester Shire'' published.
** Second part of Michael Drayton
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Early life
Drayton was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothin ...
's ''Poly-Olbion
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...
'' published.
** Sir Richard Hawkins
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Biography
He was from his earlier days familiar with ships and the s ...
' narrative of his adventures ''Voiage into the South Sea'' published.
* 1622–1624 – Famine
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in east Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
.
* 1623
** February – Amboyna massacre
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: English East India Company traders killed by agents of the Dutch East India Company
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.
** May – the King's favourite
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George Villiers made Duke of Buckingham.
**30 August – negotiations of the planned Spanish Match
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, marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales
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to Maria Anna of Spain
, house = Habsburg
, father = Philip III of Spain
, mother = Margaret of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = El Escorial, Spain
, death_date =
, death_place = Linz, Austria
, burial_place = Imperial Crypt
, ...
, break down.
**26 October – "Fatal Vespers
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": 95 people are killed when an upper floor of the French ambassador's house in Blackfriars, London
Blackfriars is in central London, specifically the south-west corner of the City of London.
Blackfriars Priory
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, collapses under the weight of a congregation attending a mass.
** Between 8 November and early December – publication of the "''First Folio
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''" (''Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies''), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare
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(d. 1616), half of which have not previously been printed.
** Medieval right of asylum
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abolished.
** Building of the Inigo Jones
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As the most notable archit ...
-designed Queen's Chapel
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in Westminster
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The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Bu ...
begins.
* 1624
**12 February – Parliament assembles for the last time under James I's reign.
**2 March – Parliament passes a resolution that its elected members are not permitted simply to resign their seats of their own will.
**10 March – England declares war on Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
.[
** May – Parliament impeaches the ]Lord Treasurer
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, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (1575 – 6 August 1645) was an English merchant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranfield.
Life
He was the second son ...
, on suspicion of taking bribes.[
**25 May – Parliament passes the ]Statute of Monopolies
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.
**24 June – Virginia
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becomes an English Crown Colony
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.[
**5–14 August – the King's Men perform ]Thomas Middleton
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's satire
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''A Game at Chess
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The plot ...
'' at the Globe Theatre
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, London
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, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match
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.
**August – the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire
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begins to function as a trade guild
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of metalworkers based in Sheffield
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, having been incorporated by Act of Parliament
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.
**12 December – treaty with France
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arranges the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Henrietta Maria of France
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.
** The Latymer School
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and Latymer Upper School
(Slowly Therefore Surely)
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, closed =
, sister_school = Godolphin and Latymer School
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in London are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer
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Life
Edward was the older son of William L ...
.
** The 15-arch Berwick Bridge
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by James Burrell is opened to traffic.
* 1625
**27 March – Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England
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upon the death of his father, James I, at Theobalds House
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.
**13 June – Marriage in person of King Charles I and the Catholic Henrietta Maria, Princess of France
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and Navarra
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, at Canterbury.
**18 June – The "Useless Parliament
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" refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, seeking to restrict him to one year instead.
** August
*** Over 40,000 killed by bubonic plague
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in London; court and Parliament temporarily moved to Oxford
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.
*** Barbary pirates
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enslave about 60 people from Mount's Bay
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in Cornwall
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.
**8 September – Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic
The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...
against Spain
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, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
.
**8 October – Cádiz expedition (1625), Cádiz expedition: Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth
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Plymouth ...
for Cádiz.
**1–7 November – Cádiz expedition: English forces are decisively defeated by the Spanish and the expedition is abandoned.[
**9 December – The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of Den Haag (1625), Treaty of Den Haag.]
** An English colony is established in Barbados.
** A very high tide occurs, the highest ever known in the Thames, and the sea walls in Kent, Essex and Lincolnshire are overthrown, with great desolation caused to the lands near the sea.
* 1626
**2 February – Coronation of King Charles I in Westminster Abbey.
**6 February – Parliament meets, and refuses to grant funds to King Charles without redress of various grievances.[
**15 June – King Charles dissolves Parliament after it refuses to grant him Tonnage and Poundage rights; imposes forced loans.][
**26 June – King Charles expels Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants from court.][
**Start of Western Rising of 1626–32: anti-enclosure riots in the royal forests of South West England.
** ]Cornelius Vermuyden
Sir Cornelius Vermuyden (Sint-Maartensdijk, 1595 – London, 11 October 1677) was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch land reclamation methods to England. Vermuyden was
commissioned by the Crown to drain Hatfield Chase in the Isle of Axholme, ...
appointed by the King to drain Hatfield Chase.
** Spa waters found at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Mrs Thomasin Farrer.
* 1627
** January – French ships seized in the English Channel, resulting in an undeclared war with France
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.[
**2 June – ]George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and possibly also a lover of King James I of England. Buckingham remained at the ...
, leads an expedition to assist the Huguenots at the Siege of La Rochelle.
**8 November – Duke of Buckingham leaves La Rochelle, having lost half of his expeditionary force.[
**28 November – Sir Thomas Darnell, 1st Baronet, Sir Thomas Darnell launches an unsuccessful appeal against his imprisonment without trial for refusing to pay forced loans; a major impetus for the Petition of Right the following year.][
**Barbary corsairs from the Republic of Salé begin a 5-year occupation of the Bristol Channel island of Lundy under the command of Dutch people, Dutch renegade Jan Janszoon.
**Pitstone Windmill in Buckinghamshire known to exist; it will survive into the 21st century.
**]Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...
's ''New Atlantis'' published posthumously.[
* 1628
** February – writs are issued by ]Charles I of England
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compelling every county in England (not just seaport towns) to pay ship tax by 1 March (1628).
**2 March – great fire of Banbury.
**17 March – Charles I reconvenes Parliament. Oliver Cromwell becomes an MP for the first time.[
**7 June – Charles I forced to accept the Petition of Right, as a concession to gain his subsidies.]
**23 August – John Felton (assassin), John Felton assassinates George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
** December – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas Wentworth appointed President of the Council of the North.
** Publication of Sir Edward Coke
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History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...
's ''Institutes of the Lawes of England'' begins with ''A Commentary upon Thomas de Littleton, Littleton''.
** William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in ''Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'' (published in Frankfurt).[
* 1629
**20 January – Parliament criticises the King for levying Tonnage and Poundage without its authority.]
**11 February–19 June – around 350 English Puritans on six ships, led by Francis Higginson in the ''Lyon's Whelp'', sail from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to Salem, Massachusetts, Salem to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America as part of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640).
**2 March – Parliament criticises Archbishop William Laud's religious reforms.
**4 March – Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal Charter.
**10 March – the King dissolves Parliament and begins an 11-year Personal Rule.
Births
* 1620
**3 February – Sir James Clavering, 1st Baronet, landowner (died 1702 in England, 1702)
**23 February – Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, politician (died 1708 in England, 1708)
**13 March – Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston (died 1691 in England, 1691)
**29 March – Edward Digges, barrister and Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1674 in England, 1674)
**15 April – Edward Villiers (1620–1689), Edward Villiers, politician and military officer (died 1689 in England, 1689)
**18 April – Winston Churchill (Cavalier), Winston Churchill, noble and Cavalier soldier (died 1688 in England, 1688)
**24 April – John Graunt, demographer (died 1674 in England, 1674)
**25 May – Warwick Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun of Okehampton, Member of Parliament (died 1665 in England, 1665)
**6 June – Sir John Covert, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1679 in England, 1679)
**11 June – John Moore (Lord Mayor), John Moore, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament for the City of London (died 1702 in England, 1702)
**6 August – William Hiseland, soldier and reputed supercentenarian (died 1732 in Great Britain, 1732)
**22 August – Alexander Rigby (died 1694), Alexander Rigby, politician (died 1694 in England, 1694)
**24 August – Thomas Stucley (MP), Thomas Stucley, politician (died 1663 in England, 1663)
**15 October – William Borlase (died 1665), William Borlase, politician (died 1665 in England, 1665)
**31 October – John Evelyn, diarist and writer (died 1706 in England, 1706)
**2 November ''(bapt.)'' – Roger Pratt (architect), Roger Pratt, gentleman architect (died 1684 in England, 1684)
**late November - Peregrine White, first English subject born in New England, aboard the Mayflower while anchored off Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
(died 1704)
* 1621
**27 January – Thomas Willis, physician (died 1675 in England, 1675)
**31 March – Andrew Marvell, poet (died 1678 in England, 1678)
**23 April – William Penn (Royal Navy officer), William Penn, admiral (died 1670 in England, 1670)
**22 July – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (died 1683 in England, 1683)
**2 October ''(bapt.)'' – Hugh May, architect
**23 December
*** Edmund Berry Godfrey, magistrate (died 1678 in England, 1678)
*** Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor (died 1682 in England, 1682)
* 1623
**15 January – Algernon Sidney, political radical (executed 1683 in England, 1683)
**27 May – Sir William Petty, scientist, philosopher and economist (died 1687 in England, 1687)
**30 May – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, politician (died 1686 in England, 1686)
** Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (died 1673 in England, 1673)
** Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (died 1668 in England, 1668)
* 1624
**July – George Fox, founder of the Quakers (died 1691 in England, 1691)
**10 September – Thomas Sydenham, physician (died 1689 in England, 1689)
* 1625
**25 May – Ann, Lady Fanshawe, née Harrison, memoirist (died 1680 in England, 1680)
**23 June – John Fell (bishop), John Fell, bishop and academic (died 1686 in England, 1686)
**10 October – Arthur Gorges, courtier, naval captain, poet and translator (born 1569 in England, 1569)
**11 December ''(bapt.)'' – Charles Hart (17th-century actor), Charles Hart, actor (died 1683 in England, 1683)
* 1626
**12 March – John Aubrey, antiquary and writer (died 1697 in England, 1697)
**4 October – Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1712 in Great Britain, 1712)
* 1627
**15 February – Charles Morton (educator), Charles Morton, nonconformist minister and educator (died 1698 in New England)
**27 March – Sir Stephen Fox, statesman (died 1716 in Great Britain, 1716)
**29 November – John Ray, biologist (died 1705 in England, 1705)
** John Flavel, dissenter (died 1691 in England, 1691)
* 1628
**10 January – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, statesman (died 1687 in England, 1687)
**20 January – Henry Cromwell, soldier, politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland (died 1674 in England, 1674)
**25 April – Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, statesman and essayist (died 1699 in England, 1699)
**29 August – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, royalist statesman (died 1701 in England, 1701)
**28 November – John Bunyan, writer and preacher (died 1688 in England, 1688)
* 1629
**8 January – Sir William Hickman, 2nd Baronet, Member of the House of Commons of England (died 1682 in England, 1682)
**5 February – Henry Muddiman, journalist and publisher (died 1692 in England, 1692)
**10 March – Metcalfe Robinson, politician (died 1689 in England, 1689)
**21 July – Elizabeth Claypole, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (died 1658 in England, 1658)
**26 July – John Ferrers (died 1680), John Ferrers, politician (died 1680 in England, 1680)
**6 August – Thomas Walcot, judge (died 1685 in England, 1685)
**30 August – Matthew Wren (writer), Matthew Wren, politician and writer (died 1672 in England, 1672)
**3 September – Lady Mary Dering, composer (died 1704 in England, 1704)
**10 September – John Heydon (astrologer), John Heydon, neoplatonist occult philosopher (died 1667 in England, 1667)
**21 September – Philip Howard (cardinal), Philip Howard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1694 in England, 1694)
**10 October – Richard Towneley, mathematician and astronomer (died 1707 in England, 1707)
**11 December – Sir Baynham Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1681 in England, 1681)
**23 December – Paul Rycaut, diplomat (died 1700 in England, 1700)
**Katherine Austen, diarist and poet (died c. 1683 in England, 1683)
Deaths
* 1620
**23 January – John Croke, judge and Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1553 in England, 1553)
**1 March – Thomas Campion, poet and composer (born 1567 in England, 1567)
**16 May – William Adams (sailor, born 1564), William Adams, navigator and samurai (born 1564 in England, 1564)
* 1621
**3 May – Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621), Elizabeth Bacon, aristocrat (born c. 1541 in England, 1541)
**2 July – Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1560 in England, 1560)
**25 September – Mary Sidney, writer, patroness and translator (born 1561 in England, 1561)
**26 November – Ralph Agas, surveyor (born c. 1540 in England, 1540)
* 1622
**23 January – William Baffin, explorer (born 1584 in England, 1584)
**19 February – Sir Henry Savile, educator (born 1549 in England, 1549)
**1 July – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, politician (born 1575 in England, 1575)
* 1623
**8 February – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, politician (born 1546 in England, 1546)
**4 July – William Byrd, composer (born 1543 in England, 1543)
**18 August – Samuel Sandys (died 1623), Samuel Sandys, politician (born 1560 in England, 1560)
**21 October – William Wade (English politician), William Wade, statesman and diplomat (born 1546 in England, 1546)
**9 November – William Camden, historian (born 1551 in England, 1551)
* 1624
**4 February – Thomas Humphrey (MP), Thomas Humphrey, politician (born 1554 in England, 1554)
**13 February – Stephen Gosson, satirist (born 1554 in England, 1554)
**1 March – Thomas White (benefactor), Thomas White, clergyman and benefactor (born c. 1550)
**12 May – John Rashleigh (1554–1624), John Rashleigh, merchant and politician (born 1554 in England, 1554)
**31 May ''(bur.)'' – John Knewstub, Puritan (born 1544 in England, 1544)
**7 September – Carew Reynell (politician), Carew Reynell, politician (born 1563 in England, 1563)
**10 November – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of the theatre (born 1573 in England, 1573)
**14 December – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, statesman (born 1536 in England, 1536)
**30 December – John Kendrick (cloth merchant), John Kendrick, cloth merchant (born 1573 in England, 1573)
*1625
**Spring – Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (born 1577 in England, 1577)
**27 March – King James VI and I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1566 in Scotland)
**5 June – Orlando Gibbons, composer and organist (born 1583 in England, 1583)
**29 August ''(bur.)'' – John Fletcher (playwright), John Fletcher, dramatist (born 1579 in England, 1579)
**September – Thomas Lodge, dramatist, writer and physician (born c. 1558)
**c. October – John Florio, linguist and lexicographer (born 1553 in England, 1553)
*1626
**24 January – Samuel Argall, adventurer and naval officer (born 1580 in England, 1580)
**20 February – John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563 in England, 1563)
**9 April – Francis Bacon (philosopher), Francis Bacon, scientist and statesman (born 1561 in England, 1561)
**4 May – Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, bishop and Bible translator (born 1569 in England, 1569)
**13 July – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (born 1563 in England, 1563)
**25 September – Lancelot Andrewes, bishop and scholar (born 1555 in England, 1555)
**25 November – Edward Alleyn, actor (born 1566 in England, 1566)
**30 November – Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
**8 December – John Davies (poet, born 1569), John Davies, poet (born 1569 in England, 1569)
**10 December – Edmund Gunter, mathematician (born 1581 in England, 1581)
*1627
**27 March – Sir John Suckling (politician), John Suckling, politician (born 1569 in England, 1569)
**19 April – Sir John Beaumont (poet), John Beaumont, poet (born 1583 in England, 1583)
**27 June – Sir John Hayward (historian), John Hayward, historian (born c. 1560 in England, 1560)
**4 July ''(bur.)'' – Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt ''Midleton'') was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jac ...
, playwright (born 1580 in England, 1580)
*1628
**3 March – Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (born c. 1550 in England, 1550)
**12 March – John Bull (composer), John Bull, composer (born c. 1562 in England, 1562)
**29 March – Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (born 1546 in England, 1546)
**13 July – Robert Shirley, adventurer (born c. 1581 in England, 1581)
**23 August – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and possibly also a lover of King James I of England. Buckingham remained at the ...
, statesman (born 1592 in England, 1592)
**30 September – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, writer (born 1554 in England, 1554)
* 1629
**23 March – Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, politician (born c. 1580 in England, 1580)
**25 March – John Guy (governor), John Guy, merchant adventurer and first Governor of Newfoundland (born 1568 in England, 1568)
**27 March – George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, general and administrator (born 1555 in England, 1555)
**22 September – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex (born 1573 in England, 1573)
References
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