- 1650 in England
Events from the year
1650 inEngland .Incumbents
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Commonwealth of England Events
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1 May - The future KingCharles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the ScottishCovenanters .
*23 June - Charles arrives inScotland where he signs the Covenant.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1650.htm|title=1650, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-19]
*3 September -Oliver Cromwell is victorious over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar.
*30 October - TheReligious Society of Friends acquires the nickname "Quakers" when the judge atGeorge Fox 's blasphemy trial says that they "tremble at the word of the Lord".cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]Undated
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Treaty of Hartford , the Dutch and English establish the frontiers between their colonies inNorth America .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=263–264]Births
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2 February -Nell Gwynne , actress and royal mistress (died 1687)
*24 March -Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet , bishop (died 1721)
*18 April -Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet , Member of Parliament (died 1689)
*20 April -William Bedloe , informer (died 1680)
*26 May -John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , general (died 1722)
*14 September -Theophilus Oglethorpe , soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1702)
*23 September -Jeremy Collier , theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726)
*20 October -Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers , courtier (died 1717)
*7 November - John Robinson, diplomat (died 1723)
* November -Cloudesley Shovell , admiral (died 1707)
*14 November - KingWilliam III of England , Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)
*Solomon de Medina , army contractor (died 1720)
*George Rooke , admiral (died 1709)
*Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough , statesman (died 1721)
* William Talman, architecht (died 1719)Deaths
* February -
Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet , politician (born 1586)
*9 March -Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers , courtier (born 1581)
*18 April -Simonds d'Ewes , antiquarian and politician (born 1602)
*9 July (burial) -Alice Barnham , wife ofFrancis Bacon (born 1592)
*25 August -Richard Crashaw , poet (born c. 1613)
*8 September -Princess Elizabeth of England , daughter of Charles I (born 1635)
*13 November -Thomas May , poet and historian (born 1595)
*Isaac Ewer , soldier and regicide (year of birth unknown)
*Phineas Fletcher , poet (born 1582)References
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