- 1652 in England
Events from the year
1652 in theCommonwealth of England .Incumbents
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Commonwealth of England Events
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19 May -First Anglo-Dutch War :Battle of Goodwin Sands fought off Dover between Lt.-AdmiralMaarten Harpertszoon Tromp 's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other byNehemiah 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 theNetherlands .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 theUnited Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-CommodoreMichiel de Ruyter at theBattle of Plymouth .
*6 September - First Anglo-Dutch War:Battle of Elba
*8 October - First Anglo-Dutch War:Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in theNorth Sea about 30 km from the mouth of theriver Thames .
*30 November - First Anglo-Dutch War: English under Blake defeated by Dutch under Tromp at theBattle of Dungeness .Births
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3 March -Thomas Otway , dramatist (died 1685)
* John Radcliffe, physician (died 1714)Deaths
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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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