1643 In England

Events from the year 1643 in England. This is the second year of the First English Civil War, fought between Roundheads ( Parliamentarians) and Cavaliers (Royalist supporters of King Charles I).

Incumbents

* Monarch – Charles I
* Parliament – Revolutionary Long

Events

* 19 January – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Braddock Down secures dominance in Cornwall.
* 23 January – First English Civil War: Leeds falls to Parliamentary forces.
* 13 March – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the First Battle of Middlewich in Cheshire.
* 18 March – Irish Confederate Wars: Battle of New Ross in Ireland – English troops defeat those of Confederate Ireland.
* 19 March – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Hopton Heath in Staffordshire, but the Royalist commander, the Earl of Northampton, is killed.
* 25 April – First English Civil War: Reading falls to Parliament after the Siege of Reading.
* 13 May – First English Civil War: Parliamentary forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat Royalist forces at Grantham.
* 16 May – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Stratton confirms dominance in Cornwall and Devon.
* 14 June – Licensing Order of 1643 passed by Parliament to censor newspapers.
* 18 June – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Chalgrove Field in Oxfordshire.
* 30 June – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Adwalton Moor gives control of Yorkshire.
* 1 July – the Westminster Assembly of theologians ("divines") and parliamentarians is convened at Westminster Abbey with the aim of restructuring the Church of England.
* 5 July – First English Civil War: pyrrhic Royalist victory at the Battle of Lansdowne near Bath, Somerset.
* 13 July – First English Civil War: Royalist cavalry led by Henry Wilmot, newly created Baron Wilmot, win a crushing victory at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes over Parliamentarians led by Sir William Waller.
* 26 July – First English Civil War: Royalists capture Bristol.
* 28 July – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Gainsborough.
* 18 August – Parliament passes "An Ordinance for Explanation of a former Ordinance for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates with some Enlargements", including an "Oath of Abjuration" of the Pope.
* c. 26 August – Parliament passes an ordinance for the cleansing of churches from altars and other monuments of "superstition" or "idolatry".
* 20 September – First English Civil War: strategic Parliamentary victory at the First Battle of Newbury over Royalist forces led personally by the king.
* 25 September – the Solemn League and Covenant is signed between the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.
* 11 October – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire.
* 13 December – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Alton in Hampshire.
* 25 December – Christmas Island is sighted and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company's ship ''Royal Mary''.
* 27 December – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Second Battle of Middlewich.

Publications

* Cromwell's ''Soldiers' Pocket Bible''.
* Dr Thomas Browne's spiritual testament ''Religio Medici'' ("true and full coppy").

Births

* 4 January ( N.S.) – Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
* 16 February – John Sharp, Archbishop of York (died 1714)
* 1 November – John Strype, historian and biographer (died 1737)

Deaths

* 14 January – John Bois, Bible translator (born 1560)
* 2 March – Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, Parliamentary General (born 1608)
* 19 March – Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton, soldier and politician (born 1601)
* 24 June – John Hampden, parliamentarian (born c. 1595)
* 5 July – Bevil Grenville, soldier (born 1595)
* 25 July – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, statesman (born 1584)
* 20 August – Anne Hutchinson, Puritan preacher (born 1591)
* 20 September, at the First Battle of Newbury:
** Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, politician, soldier and author (born c. 1610)
** Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (born 1610)
** Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland (born 1620)
* 3 November – John Bainbridge, astronomer (born 1583)
* 29 November – William Cartwright, dramatist (born 1611)
* 8 December – John Pym, statesman (born 1583)
* ''approx. date'' – Henry Glapthorne, dramatist (born 1610)

References

{{Year in Europe, 1643

Years of the 17th century in England