1648 in England
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Events from the year 1648 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - King Charles I of England
[edit] Events
- 17 January - The Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the Second English Civil War.[1]
- February - Ordinances passed against plays; actors to be fined and theatres pulled down.[2]
- 8 March - Royalists seize Pembroke Castle in Wales.[2]
- 30 April - Royalists capture Berwick and Carlisle.[2]
- 2 May
- The Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King.[1]
- The Parliament of England passes an act against blasphemy.[3]
- 8 May - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of St. Fagans.[1]
- 1 June - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Maidstone.[1]
- 11 July - Second English Civil War: Siege of Pembroke ends with surrender of Pembroke Castle to Parliament.[1]
- 17 August - Second English Civil War: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeats the Royalist Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton at the Battle of Preston.[3]
- 27 August - Second English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax takes Colchester for Parliament.[3]
- 18 September - Second English Civil War: Parliament and the King begin negotiating of the Treaty of Newport.[3]
- 6 December - Pride's Purge of the House of Commons, creating the Rump Parliament.[3]
[edit] Undated
- George Fox founds the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).[3]
[edit] Births
- 1 January - Elkanah Settle, writer (died 1724)
- 23 February - Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (died 1730)
- 7 April - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, statesman and poet (died 1721)
- August - Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, politician (died 1715)
- 15 December - Gregory King, statistician (died 1712)
- John Coode, colonial governor (died 1709)
- Richard Hoare, banker (died 1718)
- Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, mistress of King Charles II (died
- James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, (died 1683)
- Thomas Thynne, landowner and politician (died 1682)
[edit] Deaths
- 2 February - George Abbot, writer (born c.1605)
- 16 February - Robert Holborne, lawyer and politician (born c. 1598)
- 14 March - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, general (born 1584)
- 20 August - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583)
- 30 October
- Thomas Rainsborough, Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born 1610)
- Thomas Rawton, Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born c. 1610)
- 17 November - Thomas Ford, composer (born c.1580)
- Henry Burton, puritan (born 1578)
- Susanna Hall, daughter of William Shakespeare (born 1582)
- Lawrence Hilliard, painter (born 1582)
- Charles Lucas, Royalist commander (born 1613)
- Peter Oliver, painter (born 1594)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e 1648, British Civil Wars. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
- ^ 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 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 262–263. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
