1630s in England

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Events from the 1630s in England.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References
6 See also

Incumbents

Monarch - Charles I of England

Events

1630
- The Winthrop Fleet takes 700 immigrants from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and founds Boston.^[1]
- Thomas Middleton's satirical comedy A Chaste Maid in Cheapside published posthumously.^[1]
1631
- Poor harvest for second year in a row causes widespread social unrest.^[1]
- Philip Massinger's play Believe as You List first performed.
- Inigo Jones designs a church overlooking his piazza at Covent Garden in London.
1632
- 15 June - Sir Francis Windebank is made chief Secretary of State.
- 20 June - Royal charter issued for the foundation of Maryland colony; Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor.^[1]
- July - Portraitist Anthony van Dyck, newly returned to London, is knighted and granted a pension as principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties.
- The Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays published.^[2]
- Publication of William Prynne's Histriomastix, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre.
1633
- May - King Charles revives medieval forest laws to raise funds from fines.^[1]
- 6 August - William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.^[2]
- John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore published.^[2]
- Earliest surviving edition of the Christopher Marlowe play The Jew of Malta published.^[2]
- John Donne's Collected Poems published posthumously.^[1]
1634
- after 19 January - William Davenant's comedy The Wits first performed by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre, London.
- 7 May - William Prynne sentenced by the Star Chamber to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment, pillorying and the loss of part of his ears when his Histriomastix is viewed as an attack on King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria.^[2]
- 20 October - King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navy.^[2]
- First Newmarket Gold Cup horse race.^[1]
- Cornelius Vermuyden begins the draining of The Fens to reclaim farmland.^[1]
- Thomas Johnson begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants.
1635
- 4 August - Second writ for ship money is issued, extending the payments to inland towns.^[1]
- Peter Paul Rubens paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.^[1]
- First secondary school established in the North American colonies, the English High and Latin School at Boston.^[1]
- First General Post Office opens to the public, at Bishopsgate, London.^[1]
- English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.^[1]
1636
- 8 September (OS) - New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later re-named 'Harvard'.^[1]
- 9 October - John Hampden refuses to pay ship money after a third writ is issued.^[1]
- Completion of excavation of Old Bedford River (begun in 1630).
1637
- 30 April - King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies.^[1]
- 30 June - William Prynne is branded as a seditious libeller, and sentenced to pillorying and mutilation.^[2]
- 13 October - First-rate ship of the line HMS Sovereign of the Seas is launched at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £65,586.
- Member of Parliament John Hampden continues to refuse to refuse to pay ship money although a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality.^[2]
- English merchants establish the first trading settlement at Canton.^[1]
1638
- 18 April - Flogging of John Lilburne for distributing Puritan publications.^[3]
- 12 June - Trial of John Hampden for non-payment of ship money concludes.^[3]
- 21 October - Great thunderstorm at Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
- John Milton's Lycidas published.^[1]
1639
- 26 January - King Charles I tries to raise an army to fight the Scottish Covenanters.^[4]
- 27 February - Charles denounces the Covenanters.^[4]
- 21 April - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters.^[4]
- 25 April - Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels.^[4]
- 14 May - Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.^[4]
- 19 June - Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters.^[4]
- 15 September - Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters.^[4]
- 4 December - Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks makes the first observation of a transit of Venus.

Births

1630
- 28 April - Charles Cotton, poet (died 1687)
- 29 May - King Charles II of England (died 1685)
- 1 August - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, statesman (died 1673)
- October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1694)
1631
- 1 January - Katherine Philips, poet (died 1664)
- 20 February - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, statesman (died 1712)
- 19 August - John Dryden, writer (died 1700)
- 4 November - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1660)
- 14 December - Lady Anne Finch Conway, philosopher (died 1679)
1632
- 29 August - John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
- 20 October - Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723)
- 17 December - Anthony Wood, antiquarian (died 1695)
1633
- 23 February - Samuel Pepys, civil servant and diarist (died 1703)
- 14 October - King James II of England (died 1701)
- 11 November - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, writer and statesman (died 1695)
- Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1708)
1635
- 18 July - Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)
- 22 November - Francis Willughby, biologist (died 1672)
- 28 December - Princess Elizabeth of England (died 1650)
1636
- 29 June - Thomas Hyde, orientalist (died 1703)
- 29 September - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
1637
- March - Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II (died 1671)
- 17 March - Princess Anne of England (died 1640)
1638
- 24 January - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (died 1706)
- 6 May - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
- Martin Lister, naturalist (died 1712)
- Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, diplomat (died 1709)
- William Sacheverell, statesman (died 1691)
1639
- 7 March - Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (died 1672)
- 8 July - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died 1660)
- 29 September - Lord William Russell, politician (died 1683)

Deaths

1630
- 26 January - Henry Briggs, mathematician (born 1556)
- 12 February - Fynes Moryson, traveller and writer (born 1566)
- 26 February - William Brade, composer (born 1560)
- 10 April - William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, courtie (born 1580)
- 17 September - Thomas Lake, statesman (born 1567)
- Gabriel Harvey, writer (born c. 1545)
1631
- 1 January - Thomas Hobson, carrier and origin of the phrase "Hobson's choice" (born 1544)
- 31 March - John Donne, writer and prelate (born 1572)
- 6 May - Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (born 1570)
- 21 June - John Smith of Jamestown, soldier and colonist (born 1580)
- 23 December - Michael Drayton, poet (born 1563)
1632
- 22 June - James Whitelocke, judge (born 1570)
- 25 August - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c. 1572)
- 27 November - John Eliot, statesman (born 1592)
1633
- 1 March - George Herbert, poet and orator (born 1593)
- 5 August - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1562)
- 10 August - Anthony Munday, writer (born 1553)
- 14 November - William Ames, philosopher (born 1576)
1634
- 12 May - George Chapman, author (born c. 1559)
- 25 June - John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
- 9 August - William Noy, jurist (born 1577)
- 3 September - Edward Coke, colonial entrepreneur and jurist (born 1552)
- 25 December - Lettice Knollys, noblewoman (born 1540)
1635
- March - Thomas Randolph, poet (born 1605)
- 27 March - Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)
- 15 November - Thomas Parr, Alleged oldest living man (born 1483)
- John Hall, physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (year of birth unknown)
- Anthony Shirley, traveller (born 1565)
1636
- 18 April - Julius Caesar, judge (born c. 1557)
1637
- 6 August - Ben Jonson, writer (born 1572)
- 8 September - Robert Fludd, mystic (born 1574)
- 4 December - Nicholas Ferrar, trader (born 1592)
1638
- 14 September - John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (born 1607)
1639
- January - Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (born 1603)
- 7 November - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, politician (born c. 1560)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 253–257. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ ^a ^b "1638, British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60". http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1638.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "1639, British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60". http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1639.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-23.

1630s in England

Contents

Incumbents

Events

Births

Deaths

References

See also