1648 in England

Events from the year 1648 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

Monarch - King Charles I of England

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.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1648.htm|title=1648, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-16]
* February - Ordinances passed against plays; actors to be fined and theatres pulled down.
* 8 March - Royalists seize Pembroke Castle in Wales.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 182-183|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 30 April - Royalists capture Berwick and Carlisle.
* 2 May
** The Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King.
** The Parliament of England passes an act against blasphemy.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=262–263]
* 8 May - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of St. Fagans.
* 1 June - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Maidstone.
* 11 July - Second English Civil War: Siege of Pembroke ends with surrender of Pembroke Castle to Parliament.
* 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.
* 27 August - Second English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax takes Colchester for Parliament.
* 18 September - Second English Civil War: Parliament and the King begin negotiating of the Treaty of Newport.
* 6 December - Pride's Purge of the House of Commons, creating the Rump Parliament.

Undated

* George Fox founds the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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
* 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

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