1630s in England
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Events from the 1630s in England.
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[edit] Incumbents
Monarch - Charles I of England
[edit] Events
- 1630
- The Winthrop Fleet takes 700 immigrants from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and founds Boston.[1]
- Thomas Middleton's satirical comedy A Chaste Maid in Cheapside published posthumously.[1]
- 1631
- Philip Massinger's play Believe as You List first performed.
- Poor harvest for second year in a row causes widespread social unrest.[1]
- 1632
- April - Royal charter issued for the foundation of Maryland colony; Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor.[1]
- The Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays published.[2]
- Publication of William Prynne's Histriomastix, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre.
- 1633
- May - King Charles revives medieval forest laws to raise funds from fines.[1]
- 6 August - William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.[2]
- John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore published.[2]
- Earliest surviving edition of the Christopher Marlowe play The Jew of Malta published.[2]
- John Donne's Collected Poems published posthumously.[1]
- 1634
- 7 May - William Prynne sentenced by the Star Chamber to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment, pillorying and the loss of part of his ears when his Histriomastix is viewed as an attack on King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria.[2]
- 20 October - King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navy.[2]
- First Newmarket Gold Cup horse race.[1]
- Cornelius Vermuyden begins the draining of The Fens to reclaim farmland.[1]
- 1635
- 4 August - Second writ for ship money is issued, extending the payments to inland towns.[1]
- Peter Paul Rubens paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.[1]
- First secondary school established in the North American colonies; the English High and Latin School, at Boston.[1]
- First General Post Office opens to the public, at Bishopsgate, London.[1]
- English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.[1]
- 1636
- 9 October - John Hampden refuses to pay ship money after a third writ is issued.[1]
- New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later re-named 'Harvard'.[1]
- 1637
- 30 April - King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies.[1]
- 30 June - William Prynne branded a seditious libeller, and sentenced to pillorying and mutilation.[2]
- Member of Parliament John Hampden continues to refuse to refuse to pay ship money even a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality.[2]
- English merchants establish the first trading settlement at Canton.[1]
- 1638
- 18 April - flogging of John Lilburne for distributing Puritan publications.[3]
- 12 June - trial of John Hampden for non-payment of ship money concludes.[3]
- 21 October - Great thunderstorm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
- John Milton's Lycidas published.[1]
- 1639
- 26 January - King Charles I tries to raise an army to fight the Scottish Covenanters.[4]
- 27 February - Charles denounces the Covenanters.[4]
- 21 April - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters.[4]
- 25 April - Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels.[4]
- 14 May - Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.[4]
- 19 June - Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters.[4]
- 15 September - Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters.[4]
- 4 December - astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus.
[edit] Births
- 1630
- 28 April - Charles Cotton, poet (died 1687)
- 29 May - King Charles II of England (died 1685)
- 1 August - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, statesman (died 1673)
- October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1694)
- 1631
- 1 January - Katherine Philips, poet (died 1664)
- 20 February - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, statesman (died 1712)
- 19 August - John Dryden, writer (died 1700)
- 4 November - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1660)
- 14 December - Lady Anne Finch Conway, philosopher (died 1679)
- 1632
- 29 August - John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
- 20 October - Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723)
- 17 December - Anthony Wood, antiquarian (died 1695)
- 1633
- 23 February - Samuel Pepys, civil servant and diarist (died 1703)
- 14 October - King James II of England (died 1701)
- 11 November - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, writer and statesman (died 1695)
- Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1708)
- 1635
- 18 July - Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)
- 22 November - Francis Willughby, biologist (died 1672)
- 28 December - Princess Elizabeth of England (died 1650)
- 1636
- 1637
- 1638
- 24 January - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (died 1706)
- 6 May - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
- Martin Lister, naturalist (died 1712)
- Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, diplomat (died 1709)
- William Sacheverell, statesman (died 1691)
- 1639
- 7 March - Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (died 1672)
- 8 July - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died 1660)
- 29 September - Lord William Russell, politician (died 1683)
[edit] Deaths
- 1630
- 26 January - Henry Briggs, mathematician (born 1556)
- 12 February - Fynes Moryson, traveller and writer (born 1566)
- 26 February - William Brade, composer (born 1560)
- 10 April - William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, courtie (born 1580)
- 17 September - Thomas Lake, statesman (born 1567)
- Gabriel Harvey, writer (born c. 1545)
- 1631
- 1 January - Thomas Hobson, carrier and origin of the phrase "Hobson's choice" (born 1544)
- 31 March - John Donne, writer and prelate (born 1572)
- 6 May - Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (born 1570)
- 21 June - John Smith of Jamestown, soldier and colonist (born 1580)
- 23 December - Michael Drayton, poet (born 1563)
- 1632
- 22 June - James Whitelocke, judge (born 1570)
- 25 August - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c. 1572)
- 27 November - John Eliot, statesman (born 1592)
- 1633
- 1 March - George Herbert, poet and orator (born 1593)
- 5 August - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1562)
- 10 August - Anthony Munday, writer (born 1553)
- 14 November - William Ames, philosopher (born 1576)
- 1634
- 12 May - George Chapman, author (born c. 1559)
- 25 June - John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
- 9 August - William Noy, jurist (born 1577)
- 3 September - Edward Coke, colonial entrepreneur and jurist (born 1552)
- 25 December - Lettice Knollys, noblewoman (born 1540)
- 1635
- March - Thomas Randolph, poet (born 1605)
- 27 March - Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)
- 15 November - Thomas Parr, Alleged oldest living man (born 1483)
- John Hall, physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (year of birth unknown)
- Anthony Shirley, traveller (born 1565)
- 1636
- 18 April - Julius Caesar, judge (born c. 1557)
- 1637
- 6 August - Ben Jonson, writer (born 1572)
- 8 September - Robert Fludd, mystic (born 1574)
- 4 December - Nicholas Ferrar, trader (born 1592)
- 1638
- 14 September - John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (born 1607)
- 1639
- 7 November - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, politician (born c. 1560)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 177-178. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 253–257. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ a b 1638, British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g 1639, British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
