1652 in England

Events from the year 1652 in the Commonwealth of England.

Incumbents

* Commonwealth of England

Events

* 19 May - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Goodwin Sands fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|author=William L. R. Cates|year=1863]
* 30 June - First Anglo-Dutch War: Britain formally declares war on the Netherlands.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 185-186|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 26 August - First Anglo-Dutch War: An English fleet attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter at the Battle of Plymouth.
* 6 September - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Elba
* 8 October - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames.
* 30 November - First Anglo-Dutch War: English under Blake defeated by Dutch under Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness.

Births

* 3 March - Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)
* John Radcliffe, physician (died 1714)

Deaths

* 21 June - Inigo Jones, architect (born 1573)
* 23 August - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, royalist politician (born 1600)
* 8 October - John Greaves, mathematician and antiquarian (born 1602)

References

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