1664 in England

Events from the year 1664 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

12 March - Province of New Jersey becomes an English colony in North America.
5 April - Passing of the Triennial Act.^[1]
May - Parliament passes the Conventicle Act preventing non-conformist groups of more than five from assembling.^[1]
18 August - England annexes the New Netherland colony in North America. The Dutch surrender the city of New Amsterdam which is renamed New York.^[1]
8 September - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.^[2]

Construction begins of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford as designed by Christopher Wren.^[1]
Francis Child enters the London goldsmith's business which, as the private banking house of Child & Co., will continue into the 21st century.^[3]

24 January - Sir John Vanbrugh (died 1726)
28 February - Thomas Newcomen, inventor (died 1729)
3 July - James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, politician (died 1736)
21 July - Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat (died 1721)
3 September - Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, peer and politician (died 1723)
5 September - Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, daughter of Charles II (died 1718)
18 October - George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, (died 1727)
9 November - Henry Wharton, writer (died 1695)
probable - William Mountfort, actor (died 1692)
Daniel Purcell, composer (died 1717)

20 January - Isaac Ambrose, diarist (born 1604)
February - John Hoskins, painter (year of birth unknown)
7 May - John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet, noble (born 1608)
22 June - Katherine Philips, poet (born 1631)
August - John Lisle, Regicide of Charles I (born 1610)
8 October - John Boys, Royalist (born 1607)
Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet, Parliamentary supporter in the English Civil War (year of birth unknown)
Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby, Royalist (born 1599)
Accepted Frewen, Archbishop (born 1588)
John Goodyer, botanist (born 1592)
John Hutchinson, Roundhead (born 1615)
Richard Overton, Leveller (born 1599)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 271. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Button, Henry G. (1976). The Guinness Book of the Business World. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. p. 107. ISBN 0-900424-32-X.

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