1648 in England

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Events from the year 1648 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Charles I

Events

• 17 January - The Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the Second English Civil War.^[1]
• February - Ordinances passed against plays; actors to be fined and theatres pulled down.^[2]
• 8 March - Royalists seize Pembroke Castle in Wales.^[2]
• 30 April - Royalists capture Berwick and Carlisle.^[2]
• 2 May
  • The Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King.^[1]
  • The Parliament of England passes an act against blasphemy.^[3]
• 8 May - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of St. Fagans.^[1]
• 1 June - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Maidstone.^[1]
• 11 July - Second English Civil War: Siege of Pembroke ends with surrender of Pembroke Castle to Parliament.^[1]
• 17 August - Second English Civil War: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeats the Royalist Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton at the Battle of Preston.^[3]
• 27 August - Second English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax takes Colchester for Parliament.^[3]
• 18 September - Second English Civil War: Parliament and the King begin negotiating of the Treaty of Newport.^[3]
• 6 December - Pride's Purge of the House of Commons, creating the Rump Parliament.^[3]

Undated

• George Fox founds the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).^[3]

Births

• 1 January - Elkanah Settle, writer (died 1724)
• 23 February - Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (died 1730)
• 7 April - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, statesman and poet (died 1721)
• August - Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, politician (died 1715)
• 15 December - Gregory King, statistician (died 1712)
• John Coode, colonial governor (died 1709)
• Richard Hoare, banker (died 1718)
• Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, mistress of King Charles II (died 1702)
• James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, (died 1683)
• Thomas Thynne, landowner and politician (died 1682)

Deaths

• 2 February - George Abbot, writer (born c. 1605)
• 16 February - Robert Holborne, lawyer and politician (born c. 1598)
• 14 March - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, general (born 1584)
• 20 August - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583)
• 30 October
  • Thomas Rainsborough, Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born 1610)
  • Thomas Rawton, Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born c. 1610)
• 17 November - Thomas Ford, composer (born c. 1580)
• Henry Burton, puritan (born 1578)
• Susanna Hall, daughter of William Shakespeare (born 1582)
• Lawrence Hilliard, painter (born 1582)
• Charles Lucas, Royalist commander (born 1613)
• Peter Oliver, painter (born 1594)

References

See also