1640 in England

1640 in England

Events from the year 1640 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

Monarch - King Charles I of England

Events

* 12 January - Thomas Wentworth becomes Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and Earl of Strafford. [http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1640.htm British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60] ]
* 17 January - John Finch becomes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
* 13 April - King Charles I summons the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops Wars.
* 17 April - John Pym makes a speech attacking the King in Parliament.
* 4 May - Oliver St John calls on Parliament to outlaw ship money.
* 5 May - The King dismisses the Short Parliament and prepares to attack Scotland.
* 6 May - The Earl of Warwick, Lord Brooke, Lord Saye, John Pym, John Hampden, and Sir Walter Earle arrested.
* 20 August - an Army of Scottish Covenanters invades England.
* 28 August - Battle of Newburn: The Covenanter army defeats the English army.
* 26 October - Treaty of Ripon signed between the King and the Covenanters.
* 3 November - The Long Parliament is summoned.
* 25 November - The Earl of Strafford imprisoned in the Tower of London.
* 18 December - Archbishop Laud impeached for treason.

Births

* 25 January - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, soldier and statesman (died 1707)
* 30 March - John Trenchard, statesman (died 1695)
* 10 July - Aphra Behn, author (died 1689)
* 13 December - Robert Plot, naturalist (died 1696)

Deaths

* 14 January - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, lawyer and judge (born 1578)
* 25 January - Robert Burton, scholar (born 1577)
* 17 March - Philip Massinger, dramatist (born 1583)
* 3 June
**John Aylmer, political theorist (born 1521)
**Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, politician (born 1584)
* 20 October - John Ball, Puritan clergyman (born 1585)
* 8 December - Princess Anne of England (born 1637)
*"probable" - John Ford, dramatist (born 1586)

References

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