1657 in England

1657 in England

Events from the year 1657 in the The Protectorate.

Incumbents

*Lord Protector - Oliver Cromwell

Events

* January - Regional military government in England abolished.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 187-188|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 13 March - Anglo-Spanish War: With the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=267–268]
* 31 March - Oliver Cromwell is offered the Crown by the "Humble Petition and Advice".
* 20 April - Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
* 8 May - Cromwell rejects the offer to become King.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1657.htm|title=1657, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-20]
* 26 June - Cromwell becomes Lord Protector for the second time at a ceremony at Westminster.

Ongoing events

* Anglo-Spanish War 1654–1660

Publications

* Thomas Middleton's tragedy "Women Beware Women" (posthumous).

Births

* 26 January - William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1737)
* 10 June - James Craggs the Elder, politician (died 1721)
* 26 November - William Derham, minister and writer (died 1735)
* 14 December - Edmund Dunch, Member of Parliament (died 1719)
* John Dennis, dramatist (died 1734)
* Clopton Havers, physician (died 1702)
* Francis Moore, astrologer (died 1715)
* Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, Royal mistress (died 1733)

Deaths

* 13 February - Miles Sindercombe, failed assassin of Oliver Cromwell (year of birth unknown)
* 3 June - William Harvey, physician (born 1578)
* 17 August - Robert Blake, admiral (born 1599)
* 29 August - John Lilburne, dissenter (born c. 1614)
* 20 November - Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600)
* John French, doctor and chemist (born 1616)
* John Reynolds, soldier (born 1625)

References

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