1620s in England
Events from the 1620s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch - King James I (to 27 March 1625), King Charles I
Events
- 1620
- 1621
- 16 January - The Parliament of England sits for the first time since 1614.
- 3 May - Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of corruption; he is pardoned by King James I later in the year.[3]
- 4 July - 70-year-old James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, marries 17-year-old Jane Boteler, niece of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham as his second wife.[6]
- 24 July - While hunting at Bramshill, George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally kills a keeper with his crossbow.[7] A royal commission of inquiry narrowly finds in his favour.
- 18 December - The House of Commons protests against the King's right to imprison Members of Parliament who criticise his foreign policy.[3]
- 27 December - Sir Edward Coke imprisoned for his part in the Protestation.[3]
- 30 December - King James tears the page bearing the Protestation from the House of Commons Journal.[3]
- Francis Mitchell becomes the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded (stripped of his knighthood) after being found guilty of extorting money from licensees of his monopoly on the licensing of inns.
- Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden appointed by the King to drain parkland around Windsor Castle and begins reclamation of Canvey Island.[3]
- The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanical garden in the British Isles, is founded as a physic garden by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby.[8]
- Robert Burton publishes his treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy.
- 1622
- 1623
- 1624
- 1625
- 1626
- 1627
- 1628
- 1629
Births
- 1620
- 1621
- 1623
- 1624
- 1625
- 1626
- 1627
- 1628
- 1629
Deaths
- 1620
- 1621
- 1622
- 1623
- 1624
- 1625
- 1626
- 24 January - Samuel Argall, adventurer and naval officer (born 1580)
- 20 February - John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
- 9 April - Francis Bacon, scientist and statesman (born 1561)
- 4 May - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, bishop and Bible translator (born 1569)
- 13 July - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (born 1563)
- 25 September - Lancelot Andrewes, scholar (born 1555)
- 25 November - Edward Alleyn, actor (born 1566)
- 30 November - Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
- 8 December - John Davies, poet (born 1569)
- 10 December - Edmund Gunter, mathematician (born 1581)
- 1627
- 1628
- 1629
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 174–175. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Worden, Nigel; Van Heyningen, Elizabeth; Bickford-Smith, Vivian. Cape Town – the Making of a City: an Illustrated Social History. http://books.google.com/books?id=ntsyoxWIB44C&printsec=frontcover&dq=east+india+company+1620+table+mountain#PPA12,M1. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 248–253. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Davis, R. H. (1955). Deep Diving and Submarine Operations (6th ed.). Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey: Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd. p. 693.
- ^ Acott, C. (1999). "A brief history of diving and decompression illness". South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal 29 (2). ISSN 0813-1988. OCLC 16986801. http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6004. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ BBC History, July 2011, p12
- ^ BBC History, July 2011, p12
- ^ "A History of The Gardens". The University of Oxford Botanic Garden. http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/Garden/History%20Sub/obg-history-1.html. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
- ^ a b The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ Everett, Jason M., ed (2006). "1625". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
See also