1657 in England
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Events from the year 1657 in The Protectorate.
Incumbents
- Lord Protector - Oliver Cromwell
Events
- January - Regional military government in England abolished.[1]
- 8 January - Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London and arrested.[2]
- 23 February - Oliver Cromwell is offered the Crown by the Humble Petition and Advice.[3]
- 13 March - Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): With the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain;[4] England receives Dunkirk.
- 20 April - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish treasure fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.[4]
- 8 May - Cromwell formally rejects the offer to become King.[2]
- 26 June - Cromwell is installed as Lord Protector for the second time at a ceremony at Westminster.[2]
- 13 July - Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.[2]
- undated - England's first chocolate house is opened in London.[5]
Publications
- Thomas Middleton's tragedy Women Beware Women (posthumous).[4]
Births
- 26 January - William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1737)
- 29 January - Francis Moore, astrologer (died 1715)
- 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)
- Clopton Havers, physician (died 1702)
- approx. date - Elizabeth Villiers, Royal mistress (died 1733)
Deaths
- 13 February - Miles Sindercombe, failed assassin of Oliver Cromwell (year of birth unknown) (suicide by poisoning while awaiting execution)
- 3 June - William Harvey, physician (born 1578)
- 17 August - Robert Blake, admiral (born 1599)
- 29 August - John Lilburne, dissenter (born c. 1614)
- November - John French, physician and chemist (born c. 1616)
- 20 November - Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600)
- 5 December - Drowned in shipwreck on the Goodwin Sands:
- Sir John Reynolds, soldier (born 1625)
- Major Francis White, soldier (year of birth unknown)
References
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 187–188. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "1657". British Civil Wars. Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- ↑ Morrill, John (2004). "Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6765. Retrieved 2012-02-17. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 267–268. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ "Chocolate Arrives in England". Cadbury. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
See also
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