1642 in England
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Events from the year 1642 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - King Charles I of England
[edit] Events
- 4 January - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape.[1]
- 13 February - Charles assents to the Bishops Exclusion Act thereby removing all bishops from the House of Lords.[1]
- 27 February - Charles rejects the Militia Bill.[1]
- 5 March - Parliament declares that "the People are bound by the Ordinance for the Militia, though it has not received the Royal Assent".[1]
- 18 June - Charles rejects the Nineteen Propositions.[1]
- 10 July–30 July - Charles besieges Hull in an attempt to gain control of its arsenal.[1]
- 22 August - Charles raises the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.[1]
- 2 September - Parliament orders the theatres of London closed, effectively ending the era of English Renaissance theatre.[1]
- 23 September - English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Powick Bridge.[2]
- 23 October - English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the War.[1]
- 29 October - King Charles enters Oxford and establishes his court there.[2]
- 13 November - At the Battle of Turnham Green, the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London.[1]
[edit] Births
- 20 June - George Hickes, minister and scholar (died 1715)
- 25 December (O.S.) - Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
[edit] Deaths
- 7 February - William Bedell, clergyman (born 1571)
- 24 October - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (born 1583)
- 7 November - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, politician (born c. 1563)
