1610s in England

Events from the 1610s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - James I of England

Events

* 1610
** 9 February - Parliament assembles and debates the Great Contract proposed by Robert Cecil whereby in return for an annual grant of £200,000, the Crown should give up its feudal rights of Wardship and Purveyance, as well as New Impositions.cite web|url=http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20282%20James%20government.htm|title=The government of James I|accessdate=2008-03-17]
** 23 May - The House of Commons petitions King James I against imposed duties.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=243–248]
** 9 July - Arbella Stuart, a claimant to the throne, imprisoned for marrying William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, another claimant.
** 23 July - Parliament prorogued.
** 3 August - Henry Hudson leads an expedition to Hudson Bay.
** 16 October - Parliament assembles.
** 6 December - Parliament prorogued and does not assemble again until 1614.
** The decision in Dr. Bonham's Case asserts the supremacy of the common law.
** First performance of Ben Jonson's play "The Alchemist".
** First performance of William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline".
** Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first astronomers to observe sunspots.
* 1611
** 4 March - George Abbot enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
** 22 June - the crew of Henry Hudson's ship "Discovery" mutiny leaving him adrift in Hudson Bay.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
** James I establishes the baronetage as a method of raising money.
** The Authorized King James Version of the Bible published.
** Ben Jonson's play "Catiline His Conspiracy" published.
** Cyril Tourneur's play "The Atheist's Tragedy" published.
** William Shakespeare's plays "The Tempest" and "The Winter's Tale" first performed.
* 1612
** 11 April - Edward Wightman and Bartholomew Legate burnt at the stake for heresy.
** 24 May - Secretary of state Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury dies and is succeeded by the King's favourite Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester.
** 20 August - Ten people are hanged, suspected of withcraft following the Pendle witch trials.
** John Webster's play "The White Devil" published.
** Michael Drayton's topographical poem "Poly-Olbion" published.
* 1613
** 14 February - Elizabeth, daughter of King James I, marries Frederick V, Elector Palatine.
** 29 June - The Globe Theatre is destroyed by a fire started during a performance of the Shakespeare play "Henry VIII".
** 15 September - Death of Thomas Overbury by poisoning in the Tower of London, having been imprisoned after quarrelling with Viscount Rochester.
** 3 November - Viscount Rochester made Earl of Somerset.
** 23 December - Marriage of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard.
** English colonists destroy a French settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
** The New River is opened to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.
* 1614
** 5 April - Parliament assembles for the first time since 1610 and debates the imposition of taxes by the King.
** 7 June - King James dissolves the Addled Parliament for refusing to impose new taxes.
** June - King James raises money through a Benevolence; non-contributors are arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber.
** 31 October - first performance of Ben Jonson's play "Bartholomew Fair".
* 1615
** January - Sir Thomas Roe becomes the first English ambassador to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
** January - The King's favourite the Earl of Somerset and his wife Frances put on trial for the murder of Thomas Overbury. They are spared death and are sentenced to imprisonment.
** 27 September - Arbella Stuart starves herself to death in the Tower of London.
* 1616
** 3 January - the King's favourite Sir George Villiers appointed Master of the Horse.
** 19 March - Sir Walter Raleigh released from the Tower of London having been imprisoned for treason.
** July - King James raises revenue by beginning to sell peerages.
** William Baffin discovers Baffin Bay whilst searching for the Northwest Passage."1616." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 2 Jun, 2007]
** John Rolfe brings the Native American Pocahontas to England.
** Inigo Jones designs Queen's House in Greenwich.
** Ben Jonson's plays published in a folio edition; the first of any English playwright.
* 1617
** January - Sir George Villiers made Earl of Buckingham.
** January - Pocahontas received at court; she dies two months later.
** 7 March - Francis Bacon appointed Lord High Chancellor.
** 17 March - Sir Walter Raleigh leaves on a second expedition to the Orinoco River in search of El Dorado.
** 23 August - the first one-way street is created in London.
* 1618
** July - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk imprisoned for embezzling state funds while serving as Lord Treasurer.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 170-172|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
** 29 October - Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh who had angered the Spanish on his final voyage by attacking one of their settlements on the Orinoco. The Spanish ambassador Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar pressurised King James I to execute Raleigh.
** King James issues the Declaration of Sports permitting certain sports to be played on Sundays and other holidays.
** John Selden's work "The History of Tythes" suppressed by the Privy Council.
** English West Africa Company founded; establishes trading posts.
* 1619
** 11 March - Witches of Belvoir: Margaret and Philippa Flower are burnt at the stake having be found guilty of witchcraft. [cite web|url=http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/march/11.htm|title="March 11th", The Book of Days, Chambers, 1869|accessdate=2007-11-21]
** 2 June - a treaty is signed to regulate trade and resolve disputes between the English and the Dutch East India Company.
** Inigo Jones designs the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
** Publication of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's plays "A King and No King" and "The Maid's Tragedy".

Births

* 1610
** 1 March - John Pell, mathematician (died 1685)
** 4 March - William Dobson, portrait painter (died 1646)
** 23 April - Lettice Boyle, noblewoman (died 1657)
** Richard Deane, soldier, sailor, and regicide (died 1653)
** George Carteret, Royalist statesman (died 1680)
* 1611
** 1 September - William Cartwright, dramatist (died 1643)
* 1612
** 17 January - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (died 1671)
** 22 February - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, statesman (died 1677)
** 28 February - John Pearson, theologian (died 1686)
** 4 December - Samuel Butler, satirist (died 1680)
* 1613
** 2 February - William Thomas, bishop (died 1689)
** Henry Vane, politician (died 1662)
** Richard Crashaw, poet (died 1649)
* 1614
** 1 January - John Wilkins, clergyman (died 1672)
** 10 July - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, royalist statesman (died 1686)
* 1615
** 14 January - John Biddle, theologian (died 1662)
** 7 September - Colonel John Birch, soldier (died 1691)
** 12 November - Richard Baxter, clergyman (died 1691)
* 1616
** 23 January - Ralph Josselin, vicar of Earls Colne in Essex (died 1683)
** 30 January - William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1693)
** June - John Thurloe, secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (died 1668)
** August - William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (died 1700)
** 18 October - Nicholas Culpeper, botanist (died 1654)
** 23 November - John Wallis, mathematician, (died 1703)
** 17 December - Roger L'Estrange, pamphleteer and author (died 1704)
** Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont, Royalist (died 1656)
** William Holder, music theorist (died 1698)
** John Owen, Nonconformist church leader and theologian (died 1683)
** Edward Sexby, Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell (died 1658)
** Obadiah Walker, academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (died 1699)
* 1617
** 23 May - Elias Ashmole, antiquarian (died 1692)
** 5 October – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (died 1684)
* 1618
** Richard Lovelace, poet (died c. 1657)
* 1619
** 17 December - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1682)

Deaths

* 1610
** 15 April - Robert Parsons, Jesuit priest (born 1546)
** July - Richard Knolles, historian (born 1545)
** 2 November - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1544)
** Peter Bales, calligraphist (born 1547)
* 1611
** Henry Hudson, sea explorer and navigator (born 1570)
* 1612
** 11 April - Edward Wightman, Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (born 1566)
** 24 May - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, statesman and spymaster (born 1563)
** 4 August - Hugh Broughton, scholar (born 1549)
** 6 November - Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne (born 1594, Scotland)
** 12 November - John Harington, writer (born 1561)
* 1613
** 28 January - Thomas Bodley, diplomat and library founder (born 1545)
** 7 August - Thomas Fleming, judge (born 1544)
** 15 September - Thomas Overbury, poet (murdered) (born 1581)
* 1614
** 15 June - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, politician (born 1540)
** 1 July - Isaac Casaubon, classical scholar and philologist (born 1559, Geneva)
* 1615
** 27 September - Arbella Stuart, noblewoman and woman of letters (born 1575)
* 1616
** 6 January - Philip Henslowe, theatre manager (born 1550)
** 6 March - Francis Beaumont, dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (born 1584)
** 23 April (O.S.) - William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (born 1564)
** 23 November - Richard Hakluyt, author, editor and translator (born c. 1552)
** Henry Robinson, bishop (born 1553)
* 1617
** 27 October - Ralph Winwood, politician (born c. 1563)
** 10 November - Barnabe Rich, soldier and writer (born c. 1540)
* 1618
** 7 June - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Governor of Virginia (born 1577)
** 28 September - Joshua Sylvester, poet (born 1563)
** 29 October - Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, courtier and explorer (executed) (born 1554)
* 1619
** 7 January - Nicholas Hilliard, painter (born c. 1547)
** 3 February - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, conspirator (born 1564)
** 4 March - Anne of Denmark, queen of James I (born 1574)
** 13 March - Richard Burbage, actor (born c. 1567)
** 14 October - Samuel Daniel, poet (born 1562)

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