1620s in England
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Events from the 1620s in England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - James I of England (to 27 March 1625), Charles I of England
[edit] Events
- 1620
- 27 April - Treaty with Spain arranges marriage between the Prince of Wales and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain in return for relaxation of laws concerning Roman Catholics.[1]
- 3 July - the Honourable East India Company lays claim to Table Bay in Africa.[2]
- 6 September (OS) - The Mayflower leaves Plymouth carrying the Pilgrims to Cape Cod in North America.[3]
- Publication of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon.
- 1621
- 16 January - The Parliament of England sits for the first time since 1614.
- 3 May - Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of corruption; he is pardoned by King James I later in the year.[3]
- 18 December - the House of Commons protests against the King's right to imprison Members of Parliament who criticise his foreign policy.[3]
- 27 December - Sir Edward Coke imprisoned for his part in the Protestation.[3]
- 30 December - King James tears the page bearing the Protestation from the House of Commons Journal.[3]
- Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden appointed by the King to drain parkland around Windsor Castle.[3]
- 1622
- 7 January - MP John Pym arrested for criticising the King in Parliament.[3]
- 8 February - King James I disbands Parliament.[3]
- 22 March - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus settlement.
- 25 May - The East India Company ship Tryall sinks when it hits the Tryal Rocks reef. 94 out of the 143 crew die.
- William Oughtred invents the slide rule.[4]
- Nathaniel Butter begins publication of Newes from Most Parts of Christendom, one of the first regular English language newspapers.[3]
- Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published.[3]
- 1623
- February - Amboyna massacre: English East India Company traders killed by agents of the Dutch East India Company.[3]
- May - The King's favourite George Villiers made Duke of Buckingham.[3]
- 30 August - negotiations of the planned Spanish Match, marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Maria Anna of Spain, break down.[3]
- Building of the Inigo Jones-designed Queen's Chapel in Westminster begins.[3]
- Publication of First Folio, a collection of 36 of the plays of William Shakespeare.[3]
- 1624
- 12 February - Parliament assembles for the last time under James I's reign.[3]
- 10 March - England declares war on Spain.[1]
- May - Parliament impeaches the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex on suspicion of taking bribes.[1]
- 25 May - Parliament passes the Statute of Monopolies.
- 24 June - Virginia becomes an English Crown Colony.[1]
- 12 December - Treaty with France arranges the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Henrietta Maria of France.
- 1625
- 27 March - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England upon the death of James I.[3]
- 13 June - Marriage of King Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.[3]
- 18 June - Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.[3]
- August - Over 40,000 killed by bubonic plague in London; court and Parliament temporarily moved to Oxford.[3]
- 8 September - Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against Spain.[5]
- 8 October - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz.
- November - Cadiz expedition abandoned.[1]
- 9 December The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of Den Haag.[3]
- An English colony is established in Barbados.[3]
- 1626
- 2 February - Coronation of Charles I.
- 6 February - Parliament meets, and refuses to grant funds to King Charles without redress of various greivances.[1]
- 15 June - King Charles dissolves Parliament after it refuses to grant him Tonnage and Poundage rights; imposes forced loans.[1]
- 26 June - King Charles expels Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants from court.[1]
- 1627
- January - French ships seized in the English Channel, resulting in an undeclared war with France.[1]
- 2 June - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham leads an expedition to assist the Huguenots at the Siege of La Rochelle.[3]
- 8 November - Duke of Buckingham leaves La Rochelle, having lost half of his expeditionary force.[1]
- 28 November - 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.[1]
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis published posthumously.[1]
- 1628
- 1 March - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
- 17 March - Charles I reconvenes Parliament. Oliver Cromwell becomes an MP for the first time.[1]
- 7 June - Charles I forced to accept the Petition of Right, as a concession to gain his subsidies.[3]
- 23 August - John Felton assassinates George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.[3]
- December - Thomas Wentworth appointed President of the Council of the North.[3]
- William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus.[4]
- 1629
- 20 January - Parliament criticises the King for levying Tonnage and Poundage without its authority.[3]
- 2 March - Parliament criticises Archbishop William Laud's religious reforms.[3]
- 10 March - The King dissolves Parliament and begins an 11-year Personal Rule.[1]
[edit] Births
- 1620
- 31 October - John Evelyn, diarist and writer (died 1706)
- 1621
- 27 January - Thomas Willis, physician (died 1675)
- 31 March - Andrew Marvell, poet (died 1678)
- 22 July - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (died 1683)
- 23 December
- Edmund Berry Godfrey, magistrate (died 1678)
- Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor (died 1682)
- 1623
- 27 May - Sir William Petty, scientist and philosopher (died 1687)
- 30 May - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, politician (died 1686)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (died 1673)
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (died 1668)
- 1624
- July - George Fox, founder of the Quakers (died 1691)
- 10 September - Thomas Sydenham, physician (died 1689)
- 1625
- Charles Hart, actor (died 1683)
- Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, politician (died 1699)
- 1626
- 12 March - John Aubrey, antiquary and writer (died 1697)
- 4 October - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1712)
- 1627
- 27 March - Sir Stephen Fox, statesman (died 1716)
- 29 November - John Ray, biologist (died 1705)
- John Flavel, dissenter (died 1691)
- 1628
- 10 January - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, statesman (died 1687)
- 20 January - Henry Cromwell, soldier, politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland (died 1674)
- 25 April - Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, statesman and essayist (died 1699)
- 29 August - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, royalist statesman (died 1701)
- 28 November - John Bunyan, writer (died 1688)
- 1629
- 21 September - Philip Cardinal Howard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1694)
[edit] Deaths
- 1620
- 1 March - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (born 1567)
- 16 May - William Adams, navigator and samurai (born 1564)
- 1621
- 2 July - Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1560)
- 25 September - Mary Sidney, writer, patroness and translator (born 1561)
- 26 November - Ralph Agas, surveyor (born c. 1540)
- 1622
- 23 January - William Baffin, explorer (born 1584)
- 19 February - Sir Henry Savile, educator (born 1549)
- 1 July - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, politician (born 1575)
- 1623
- 8 February - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, politician (born 1546)
- 4 July - William Byrd, composer (born 1543)
- 21 October - William Wade, statesman and diplomat (born 1546)
- 9 November - William Camden, historian (born 1551)
- 1624
- 13 February - Stephen Gosson, satirist (born 1554)
- 10 November - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of the theatre (born 1573)
- 14 December - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, statesman (born 1536)
- 1625
- 27 March - King James I of England (born 1566)
- 5 June - Orlando Gibbons, composer and organist (born 1583)
- August - John Fletcher, writer (born 1579)
- John Florio, linguist and lexicographer (born 1553)
- 1626
- 24 January - Samuel Argall, adventurer and naval officer (born 1580)
- 20 February - John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
- 9 April - Francis Bacon, scientist and statesman (born 1561)
- 4 May - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, bishop and Bible translator (born 1569)
- 13 July - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (born 1563)
- 25 September - Lancelot Andrewes, scholar (born 1555)
- 25 November - Edward Alleyn, actor (born 1566)
- 30 November - Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
- 8 December - John Davies, poet (born 1569)
- 10 December - Edmund Gunter, mathematician (born 1581)
- 1627
- 19 April - Sir John Beaumont, poet (born 1583)
- June 27 - Sir John Hayward, historian (born c. 1560)
- Thomas Middleton, playwright (born 1580)
- Sir John Suckling, politician (born 1569)
- 1628
- 12 March - John Bull, composer (born c. 1562)
- 29 March - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (born 1546)
- 13 July - Robert Shirley, adventurer (born c. 1581)
- 23 August - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, statesman (born 1592)
- 30 September - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, writer (born 1554)
- 1629
- 23 March - Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (born c. 1580)
[edit] References
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