1647 in England
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Events from the year 1647 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - King Charles I of England
[edit] Events
- 30 January - Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.[1]
- March - Folk dancing and bear-baiting banned.[1]
- 15 March - Harlech surrenders; the last Royalist castle to do so.[1]
- 18 May - The House of Commons decides to disband the Army.[2]
- 4 June - King |Charles I taken to Newmarket as a prisoner of the New Model Army.[2]
- 2 August - The King rejects the proposals set out in the Heads of Proposals.[2]
- 7 August - Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army.[2]
- 8 August - Irish Confederate Wars: An English Parliamentary army defeats the Irish Confederate's Leinster army.[2]
- 20 August - Parliament passes the Null and Void Ordinance.[3]
- October - The Levellers publish their manifesto Agreement of the People.[2]
- 28 October - the Putney Debates between the New Model Army and the Levellers.[3]
- 11 November - The King attempts to escape captivity but is captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.[2]
- 15 November - Corkbush Field mutiny: two regiments of the New Model Army threaten to mutiny.[3]
- 24 December - Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects.[2]
- 26 December - The King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promised to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.[4]
[edit] Undated
- Anglican professors are sacked at the University of Oxford.[2]
[edit] Births
- 1 April - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet (died 1680)
- 3 April - Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, statesman (died 1709)
- 2 July - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, privy councillor (died 1730)
- date unknown - Henry Aldrich, theologian and philosopher (died 1710)
[edit] Deaths
- 29 January - Francis Meres, writer (born 1565)
- 12 March - Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1591)
- 20 April - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1593)
- 12 June - Thomas Farnaby, grammarian (born c.1575)
- 7 July - Thomas Hooker, religious and colonial leader (born 1586)
- August - Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder-general (year of birth unknown)
- 24 August - Nicholas Stone, sculptor and architect (born 1586)
- October - Lady Anne Stanley, heir to the throne (born 1580)
- Thomas Abington, antiquarian (born 1550)
- Leonard Calvert, colonial governor (born 1606)
- Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)
- Elizabeth Raleigh, wife of Walter Raleigh (born 1565)
- John Saltmarsh, clergyman (year of birth unknown)
- Degory Wheare, academic (born 1573)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 182-183. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 261–262. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b c 1647, British Civil Wars. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
- ^ The Engagement, 1648, British Civil Wars. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
