1650 in England

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Events from the year 1650 in England.

Incumbents

• Commonwealth of England

Events

• 1 May - The future King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters.
• 26 May - Oliver Cromwell leaves Ireland (following the Siege of Clonmel), occasioning Andrew Marvell's An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland.
• 23 June - Charles arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth) where he signs the Covenant.^[1]
• 3 September - Oliver Cromwell is victorious over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar.^[1]
• 30 October - The Religious Society of Friends acquires the nickname "Quakers" when the judge at George Fox's blasphemy trial says that they "tremble at the word of the Lord".^[2]

Undated

• With the Treaty of Hartford, the Dutch and English establish the frontiers between their colonies in North America.^[3]
• Cornelius Vermuyden completes excavation of the New Bedford River as part of the drainage of The Fens.
• William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica.

Births

• 2 February - Nell Gwynne, actress and royal mistress (died 1687)
• 24 March - Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, bishop (died 1721)
• 18 April - Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1689)
• 20 April - William Bedloe, informer (died 1680)
• 26 May - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (died 1722)
• 14 September - Theophilus Oglethorpe, soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1702)
• 23 September - Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726)
• 20 October - Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, courtier (died 1717)
• 7 November - John Robinson, diplomat (died 1723)
• November - Cloudesley Shovell, admiral (died 1707)
• 14 November - King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)
• Solomon de Medina, army contractor (died 1720)
• George Rooke, admiral (died 1709)
• Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, statesman (died 1721)
• William Talman, architect (died 1719)

Deaths

• February - Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1586)
• 9 March - Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers, courtier (born 1581)
• 18 April - Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (born 1602)
• 9 July (burial) - Alice Barnham, wife of Francis Bacon (born 1592)
• 25 August - Richard Crashaw, poet (born c. 1613)
• 8 September - Princess Elizabeth of England, daughter of Charles I (born 1635)
• 13 November - Thomas May, poet and historian (born 1595)
• Isaac Ewer, soldier and regicide (year of birth unknown)
• Phineas Fletcher, poet (born 1582)

References

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