1657 in England
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Events from the year 1657 in the The Protectorate.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Lord Protector - Oliver Cromwell
[edit] Events
- January - Regional military government in England abolished.[1]
- 13 March - Anglo-Spanish War: With the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain.[2]
- 31 March - Oliver Cromwell is offered the Crown by the Humble Petition and Advice.[2]
- 20 April - Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.[2]
- 8 May - Cromwell rejects the offer to become King.[3]
- 26 June - Cromwell becomes Lord Protector for the second time at a ceremony at Westminster.[3]
[edit] Ongoing events
- Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660
[edit] Publications
- Thomas Middleton's tragedy Women Beware Women (posthumous).[2]
[edit] Births
- 26 January - William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1737)
- 10 June - James Craggs the Elder, politician (died 1721)
- 26 November - William Derham, minister and writer (died 1735)
- 14 December - Edmund Dunch, Member of Parliament (died 1719)
- John Dennis, dramatist (died 1734)
- Clopton Havers, physician (died 1702)
- Francis Moore, astrologer (died 1715)
- Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, Royal mistress (died 1733)
[edit] Deaths
- 13 February - Miles Sindercombe, failed assassin of Oliver Cromwell (year of birth unknown)
- 3 June - William Harvey, physician (born 1578)
- 17 August - Robert Blake, admiral (born 1599)
- 29 August - John Lilburne, dissenter (born c. 1614)
- 20 November - Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600)
- John French, doctor and chemist (born 1616)
- John Reynolds, soldier (born 1625)
[edit] References
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 187-188. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 267–268. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b 1657, British Civil Wars. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
