1610s in England
Events from the 1610s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch - James I
Events
- 1610
- 1611
- 4 March - George Abbot enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 2 May - The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published,[2] printed in London by Robert Barker.
- 11 May - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, probably new this year,[3] by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre in London.
- 22 May - The first hereditary baronets are created by letters patent from the King, largely as a means of funding the army.[2] Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave in Suffolk becomes the premier baronet of England.
- 22 June - The crew of Henry Hudson's ship Discovery mutiny leaving him adrift in Hudson Bay.[4]
- 1 November - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy and last solo play The Tempest is performed, perhaps for the first time. The Winter's Tale is presented at Court on 5 November.
- John Donne's poem An Anatomy of the World published.
- Ben Jonson's play Catiline His Conspiracy published.[2]
- Cyril Tourneur's play The Atheist's Tragedy published.[2]
- Last known traditional performance of an English mystery play, at Kendal.
- Thomas Sutton founds Charterhouse School on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London.
- 1612
- 1613
- 14 February - Elizabeth, daughter of King James I, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine.[2]
- 29 June - The original Globe Theatre in Southwark is destroyed by a fire started during a performance of the Shakespeare play Henry VIII.[4]
- 15 September - Death of Thomas Overbury by poisoning in the Tower of London, having been imprisoned after quarrelling with Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester.[1]
- 29 September - The New River (engineered by Sir Hugh Myddelton) is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.[2]
- 3 November - Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, is created Earl of Somerset.[2]
- 23 December - Marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard,[1] occasioning John Donne's Eclogue.
- English colonists destroy a French settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.[2]
- The King condemns duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats.
- Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland's closet drama The Tragedy of Mariam is published.
- 1614
- 5 April - Parliament assembles for the first time since 1610 and debates the imposition of taxes by the King.[1]
- 7 June - King James dissolves the Addled Parliament for refusing to impose new taxes.[4]
- June - King James raises money through a Benevolence; non-contributors are arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber.[3]
- 31 October - First performance of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy;[3] it receives a Court performance the following day.
- 1615
- 1616
- 1 January - King James attends the masque The Golden Age Restored, a satire by Ben Jonson on fallen court favorite the Earl of Somerset. The king asks for a repeat performance on 4 January.
- 3 January - The King's current favourite Sir George Villiers is appointed Master of the Horse;[2] on 24 April he receives the Order of the Garter; and on 27 August is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £80,000.
- 10 January - English diplomat Sir Thomas Roe presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in Ajmer, opening the door to the British presence in India.[7]
- 1 February - King James grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks, making him de facto poet laureate.[9]
- 11 March - Roman Catholic priest Thomas Atkinson is hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, at age 70.[10]
- 19 March - Sir Walter Ralegh is released from the Tower of London, where he has been imprisoned for treason, to organise an expedition to El Dorado.[4]
- 26 March–30 August - William Baffin makes a detailed exploration of Baffin Bay whilst searching for the Northwest Passage.[11]
- 23 April - Playwright and poet William Shakespeare dies (on or about his 52nd birthday) in retirement in Stratford-upon-Avon and is buried two days later in the Church of the Holy Trinity there.
- 25 April - Sir John Coke, in the Court of King's Bench, holds the King's actions in a case of In commendam to be illegal.
- May–12 June - John Rolfe brings Pocahontas and their infant son, Thomas Rolfe, to England from America.[11]
- 25 May - The King's former favourite the Earl of Somerset and his wife Frances are convicted of the murder of Thomas Overbury. They are spared death and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London.[1][12]
- July - King James begins to raise revenue by the sale of peerages.[3]
- October - King James's School, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, is founded by Dr. Robert Chaloner.[13]
- October/November - Ben Jonson's satirical five-act comedy The Devil is an Ass is produced at the Blackfriars Theatre by the King's Men, poking fun at credence in witchcraft and Middlesex juries.[14]
- 4 November - Prince Charles, the 15 year-old surviving son of King James and Anne of Denmark, is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall, the last such investiture until 1911.
- 6/25 November - Ben Jonson's works are published in a collected folio edition; the first of any English playwright.[3][15]
- 14 November - Sir Edward Coke is dismissed as Chief Justice of the King's Bench by royal prerogative.
- 25 December - Captain Nathaniel Courthope reaches the nutmeg-rich island of Run in the Moluccas to defend it against the Dutch East India Company. A contract with the inhabitants accepting James I as their sovereign makes it part of the English colonial empire.[16]
- Epidemic typhus outbreak.
- Witch trials under the Witchcraft Act 1604: Elizabeth Rutter is hanged as a witch in Middlesex, Agnes Berrye in Enfield, and nine women in Leicester at a summer assize presided over by Sir Humphrey Winch.[17]
- Inigo Jones designs the Queen's House at Greenwich.[11]
- The Anchor Brewery is established in London by James Monger next to the Globe Theatre in Southwark; it will be the world's largest by the early nineteenth century and brew until the 1970s.[18]
- Other publications
- 1617
- January
- Sir George Villiers made Earl of Buckingham.[2]
- Pocahontas received at court; she dies two months later at Gravesend.[3]
- 7 March - Francis Bacon appointed Lord High Chancellor.[2]
- 17 March - Sir Walter Ralegh in The Destiny leaves on a second expedition to the Orinoco River in search of El Dorado.[2] On 12 June, soon after leaving Plymouth, his fleet is scattered by a storm and it is unable to set out again (from Cork) until 19 August.
- 23 August - The first one-way streets are created in alleys near the River Thames in London.[4][19]
- 1618
- July - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk imprisoned for embezzling state funds while serving as Lord Treasurer.[3]
- 29 October - Execution at the Palace of Westminster of Sir Walter Ralegh who has angered the Spanish on his final voyage by attacking one of their settlements on the Orinoco. The Spanish ambassador Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar has pressurised King James I over the matter.[2]
- King James issues the Declaration of Sports permitting certain sports to be played on Sundays and other holidays.[2]
- John Selden's work The History of Tythes suppressed by the Privy Council.[2]
- English West Africa Company founded; establishes trading posts.[3]
- 1619
Births
- 1610
- 1 March - John Pell, mathematician (died 1685)
- 23 April - Lettice Boyle, noblewoman (died 1657)
- 8 July (bapt.) - Richard Deane, soldier, sailor, and regicide (died 1653)
- 28 July (bapt.) - Henry Glapthorne, dramatist (died c.1643)
- Abraham Wood, explorer in America, Indian trader, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (died c.1682 at Fort Henry (Virginia))
- approx. date - George Carteret, Royalist statesman (died 1680)
- 1611
- 1612
- 1613
- 1614
- 1615
- 1616
- 23 January - Ralph Josselin, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex (died 1683)
- 30 January - William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1693)
- June - John Thurloe, secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (died 1668)
- August - William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (died 1700)
- 18 October - Nicholas Culpeper, botanist (died 1654)
- 23 November - John Wallis, mathematician, (died 1703)
- 17 December - Roger L'Estrange, pamphleteer and author (died 1704)
- Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont, Royalist (died 1656)
- William Holder, music theorist (died 1698)
- John Owen, Nonconformist church leader and theologian (died 1683)
- Edward Sexby, Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell (died 1658)
- Obadiah Walker, academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (died 1699)
- 1617
- 1619
Deaths
- 1610
- 1611
- 1612
- 1613
- 1614
- 1615
- 27 September - Arbella Stuart, noblewoman and woman of letters (born 1575)
- 1616
- 1617
- 1618
- 1619
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "The government of James I". Retrieved 2008-03-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 170–172. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ Grafton, Anthony. "A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters". Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
- ↑ Haddon, Celia (2004). The First Ever English Olimpick Games. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-86274-2.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Strachan, Michael (2004). "Roe, Sir Thomas (1581–1644)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23943. Retrieved 2012-10-09. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Friar, Stephen (2001). The Sutton Companion to Local History (rev. ed.). Stroud: Sutton Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 0-7509-2723-2.
- ↑ Donaldson, Ian (2004). "Jonson, Benjamin (1572–1637)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15116. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
- ↑
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. Thomas Atkinson". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. - ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1616". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
- ↑ Bellany, Alastair (2004). "Carr, Robert, earl of Somerset (1585/6?–1645)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4754. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
- ↑ Kellett, Arnold (2003). King James's School, 1616-2003. Knaresborough: King James's School. ISBN 0-9545195-0-7.
- ↑ Published 1631.
- ↑ Bland, M. (1998). "William Stansby and the production of the Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615–16". The Library (Bibliographical Society) 20: 10. doi:10.1093/library/20.1.1.
- ↑ Ratnikas, Algirdas J. "Timeline Indonesia". Timelines.ws. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ↑ Robbins, Russell Hope (1959). The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. New York: Bonanza Books.
- ↑ Lesley Richmond; Alison Turton (1990). The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records. Manchester University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7190-3032-1.
- ↑ Homer, Trevor (2006). The Book of Origins. London: Portrait. pp. 283–4. ISBN 0-7499-5110-9.
- ↑ "March 11th", The Book of Days (Chambers), 1869, archived from the original on 18 December 2007, retrieved 2007-11-21
- ↑ Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
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