1600s in England
Events from the 1600s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch - Queen Elizabeth I (to 24 March 1603), King James I. Elizabeth was the last Tudor Monarch of England.
Events
- 1606
- 31 January - Fawkes and his co-plotters are executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.[1]
- 10 April - The London Company is granted a Royal Charter to encourage colonisation in Virginia.[2]
- 12 April - First version of the Union Flag created.[5]
- May - Severe penalties are imposed for Catholic recusancy, and for refusal to take an Oath of Allegiance to James to serve in public office, by An Act for the better discovering and repressing of popish recusants (proclaimed law 22 June).[2]
- 27 May - Second session of Parliament under King James prorogued.[6]
- August (approx.) - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.[2][10]
- 18 November - Third session of Parliament begins.[6]
- 26 December (St. Stephen's night) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before the King at Whitehall.[10]
- 1607
- 1608
- 1609
Births
- 1600
- 1601
- 1602
- 29 March - John Lightfoot, churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675)
- April - William Lawes, composer and musician (died 1645)
- 1 May - William Lilly, astrologer (died 1681)
- 12 October - William Chillingworth, churchman (died 1644)
- 13 October - Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, military leader (died 1668)
- 18 December - Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (died 1650)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1678)
- John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)
- John Greaves, mathematician and antiquary (died 1652)
- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (died 1671)
- Henry Marten, regicide (died 1680)
- Dudley North, 4th Baron North (died 1677)
- Owen Feltham, religious writer (died 1668)
- 1603
- 1604
- 1605
- June - Thomas Randolph, poet and dramatist (died 1635)
- August - Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer and parliamentarian (died 1675)
- 8 August - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675)
- 18 August - Henry Hammond, churchman (died 1660)
- 12 September - William Dugdale, antiquary (died 1686)
- 19 October - Thomas Browne physician and philosopher (died 1682)
- 4 November - William Habington, poet (died 1654)
- William Berkeley, governor of Virginia (died 1677)
- John Gauden, bishop and writer (died 1662)
- Thomas Nabbes, dramatist (died c. 1645)
- Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1666)
- William Goffe, parliamentarian (died 1679)
- 1606
- 28 February - William Davenant, poet and playwright (died 1668)
- March - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
- 3 March - Edmund Waller, poet (died 1687)
- 27 September - Richard Busby, clergyman (died 1695)
- Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
- Edmund Castell, orientalist (died 1685)
- Thomas Harrison, puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
- Thomas Herbert, traveller and historian (died 1682)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
- Thomas Washbourne, clergyman and poet (died 1687)
- 1607
- 1608
- June - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (died 1666)
- 14 July - George Goring, Lord Goring, Royalist soldier (died 1657)
- 6 December - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, soldier (died 1670)
- 9 December - John Milton, poet (died 1674)
- John Desborough, soldier and politician (died 1680)
- Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
- Edward Rainbowe, clergyman and a preacher (died 1684)
- John Tradescant the younger, botanist and gardener (died 1662)
- 1609
- 10 February - John Suckling, poet (died 1642)
- 18 February - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian and statesman (died 1674)
- 29 March - Sarah Boyle, noblewoman (died 1633)
- 8 October - John Clarke, physician (died 1676)
- 26 October - William Sprague, co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675)
- 1 November - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (died 1676)
- 24 December - Philip Warwick, writer and politician (died 1683)
- Samuel Cooper, miniature painter (died 1672)
- Captain John Underhill, soldier and colonist (died 1672)
- Gerrard Winstanley, Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)
Deaths
- 1600
- 1601
- 1602
- 1603
- 1604
- 1605
- 1606
- 1607
- 1608
- 1609
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 238–243. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Edwards, Phillip, ed (1985). Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0-521-29366-9. "Any dating of Hamlet must be tentative." Scholars date its writing as between 1599 and 1601.
- ^ Shakespeare, William (2001). Smith, Bruce R.. ed. Twelfth Night: Texts and Contexts. Boston, Mass: Bedford/St Martin's. p. 2. ISBN 0312202199.
- ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g "The government of James I". http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20282%20James%20government.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
- ^ "Case 1: The Treaty of London". http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/exhibitions/ex1604/treaty.html. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
- ^ "A proclamation concerning the Kings Majesties Stile, of King of Great Britaine, &c.". http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/britstyles.htm#1604. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
- ^ "Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night". 2008. http://www.bonfirenight.net/gunpowder.php. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
- ^ a b Scholars date completion as between 1603 and 1606. Boyce, Charles (1990). Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York: Roundtable Press.
- ^ Bryant, Edward; Haslett, Simon (2002). "Was the AD 1607 Coastal Flooding Event in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel (UK) Due to a Tsumani?". Archaeology in the Severn Estuary (13): 163–7. http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/science-and-the-environment/geography/Tsunami/archaeology-in-the-severn-estuary-2003-paper.pdf.
- ^ "The great flood of 1607: could it happen again?". BBC Somerset. http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2007/01/30/somerset_flood_1607_anniversary_feature.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- ^ "Newton Rebels 1607". http://www.newtonrebels.org.uk/rebels/index.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
- ^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
- ^ a b Hunter, Douglas (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. London: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 1-59691-680-X.
- ^ Nevius, Michelle; James (2008-09-08). "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference". Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City. http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2008/09/new-yorks-many-911-anniversaries-staten.html. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ Opie, Iona; Peter (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 306. ISBN 0198600887.
See also