1620s in England

Events from the 1620s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - James I of England (to 27 March 1625), Charles I of England

Events

* 1620
** 27 April - Treaty with Spain arranges marriage between the Prince of Wales and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain in return for relaxation of laws concerning Roman Catholics.
** 3 July - the Honourable East India Company lays claim to Table Bay in Africa. [cite web
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title=Cape Town: The Making of a City : an Illustrated Social History By Nigel Worden, Elizabeth Van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith|accessdate=2007-11-22]
** 6 September (OS) - The "Mayflower" leaves Plymouth carrying the Pilgrims to Cape Cod in North 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=248–253]
** Publication of "Novum Organum" by Francis Bacon.
* 1621
** 16 January - The Parliament of England sits for the first time since 1614.
** 3 May - Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of corruption; he is pardoned by King James I later in the year.
** 18 December - the House of Commons protests against the King's right to imprison Members of Parliament who criticise his foreign policy.
** 27 December - Sir Edward Coke imprisoned for his part in the Protestation.
** 30 December - King James tears the page bearing the Protestation from the House of Commons Journal.
** Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden appointed by the King to drain parkland around Windsor Castle.
* 1622
** 7 January - MP John Pym arrested for criticising the King in Parliament.
** 8 February - King James I disbands Parliament.
** 22 March - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus settlement.
** 25 May - The East India Company ship "Tryall" sinks when it hits the Tryal Rocks reef. 94 out of the 143 crew die.
** William Oughtred invents the slide rule.cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]
** Nathaniel Butter begins publication of "Newes from Most Parts of Christendom", one of the first regular English language newspapers.
** Second part of Michael Drayton's "Poly-Olbion" published.
* 1623
** February - Amboyna massacre: English East India Company traders killed by agents of the Dutch East India Company.
** May - The King's favourite George Villiers made Duke of Buckingham.
** 30 August - negotiations of the planned Spanish Match, marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Maria Anna of Spain, break down.
** Building of the Inigo Jones-designed Queen's Chapel in Westminster begins.
** Publication of "First Folio", a collection of 36 of the plays of William Shakespeare.
* 1624
** 12 February - Parliament assembles for the last time under James I's reign.
** 10 March - England declares war on Spain.
** May - Parliament impeaches the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex on suspicion of taking bribes.
** 25 May - Parliament passes the Statute of Monopolies.
** 24 June - Virginia becomes an English Crown Colony.
** 12 December - Treaty with France arranges the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Henrietta Maria of France.
* 1625
** 27 March - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England upon the death of James I.
** 13 June - Marriage of King Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.
** 18 June - Parliament refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, restricting him to one year instead.
** August - Over 40,000 killed by bubonic plague in London; court and Parliament temporarily moved to Oxford.
** 8 September - Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against Spain. ["1625." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 19 Jun, 2007]
** 8 October - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz.
** November - Cadiz expedition abandoned.
** 9 December The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of Den Haag.
** An English colony is established in Barbados.
* 1626
** 2 February - Coronation of Charles I.
** 6 February - Parliament meets, and refuses to grant funds to King Charles without redress of various greivances.
** 15 June - King Charles dissolves Parliament after it refuses to grant him Tonnage and Poundage rights; imposes forced loans.
** 26 June - King Charles expels Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants from court.
* 1627
** January - French ships seized in the English Channel, resulting in an undeclared war with France.
** 2 June - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham leads an expedition to assist the Huguenots at the Siege of La Rochelle.
** 8 November - Duke of Buckingham leaves La Rochelle, having lost half of his expeditionary force.
** 28 November - Sir Thomas Darnell launches an unsuccessful appeal against his imprisonment without trial for refusing to pay forced loans; a major impetus for the Petition of Right the following year.
** Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" published posthumously.
* 1628
** 1 March - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
** 17 March - Charles I reconvenes Parliament. Oliver Cromwell becomes an MP for the first time.
** 7 June - Charles I forced to accept the Petition of Right, as a concession to gain his subsidies.
** 23 August - John Felton assassinates George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
** December - Thomas Wentworth appointed President of the Council of the North.
** William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus".
* 1629
** 20 January - Parliament criticises the King for levying Tonnage and Poundage without its authority.
** 2 March - Parliament criticises Archbishop William Laud's religious reforms.
** 10 March - The King dissolves Parliament and begins an 11-year Personal Rule.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 174-175|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]

Births

* 1620
** 31 October - John Evelyn, diarist and writer (died 1706)
* 1621
** 27 January - Thomas Willis, physician (died 1675)
** 31 March - Andrew Marvell, poet (died 1678)
** 22 July - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (died 1683)
** 23 December
*** Edmund Berry Godfrey, magistrate (died 1678)
*** Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor (died 1682)
* 1623
** 27 May - Sir William Petty, scientist and philosopher (died 1687)
** 30 May - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, politician (died 1686)
** Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (died 1673)
** Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (died 1668)
* 1624
** July - George Fox, founder of the Quakers (died 1691)
** 10 September - Thomas Sydenham, physician (died 1689)
* 1625
** Charles Hart, actor (died 1683)
** Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, politician (died 1699)
* 1626
** 12 March - John Aubrey, antiquary and writer (died 1697)
** 4 October - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1712)
* 1627
** 27 March - Sir Stephen Fox, statesman (died 1716)
** 29 November - John Ray, biologist (died 1705)
** John Flavel, dissenter (died 1691)
* 1628
** 10 January - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, statesman (died 1687)
** 20 January - Henry Cromwell, soldier, politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland (died 1674)
** 25 April - Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, statesman and essayist (died 1699)
** 29 August - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, royalist statesman (died 1701)
** 28 November - John Bunyan, writer (died 1688)
* 1629
** 21 September - Philip Cardinal Howard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1694)

Deaths

* 1620
** 1 March - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (born 1567)
** 16 May - William Adams, navigator and samurai (born 1564)
* 1621
** 2 July - Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1560)
** 25 September - Mary Sidney, writer, patroness and translator (born 1561)
** 26 November - Ralph Agas, surveyor (born c. 1540)
* 1622
** 23 January - William Baffin, explorer (born 1584)
** 19 February - Sir Henry Savile, educator (born 1549)
** 1 July - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, politician (born 1575)
* 1623
** 8 February - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, politician (born 1546)
** 4 July - William Byrd, composer (born 1543)
** 21 October - William Wade, statesman and diplomat (born 1546)
** 9 November - William Camden, historian (born 1551)
* 1624
** 13 February - Stephen Gosson, satirist (born 1554)
** 10 November - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, patron of the theatre (born 1573)
** 14 December - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, statesman (born 1536)
* 1625
** 27 March - King James I of England (born 1566)
** 5 June - Orlando Gibbons, composer and organist (born 1583)
** August - John Fletcher, writer (born 1579)
** John Florio, linguist and lexicographer (born 1553)
* 1626
** 24 January - Samuel Argall, adventurer and naval officer (born 1580)
** 20 February - John Dowland, composer and lutenist (born 1563)
** 9 April - Francis Bacon, scientist and statesman (born 1561)
** 4 May - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, bishop and Bible translator (born 1569)
** 13 July - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, statesman (born 1563)
** 25 September - Lancelot Andrewes, scholar (born 1555)
** 25 November - Edward Alleyn, actor (born 1566)
** 30 November - Thomas Weelkes, English composer (born 1576)
** 8 December - John Davies, poet (born 1569)
** 10 December - Edmund Gunter, mathematician (born 1581)
* 1627
** 19 April - Sir John Beaumont, poet (born 1583)
** June 27 - Sir John Hayward, historian (born c. 1560)
** Thomas Middleton, playwright (born 1580)
** Sir John Suckling, politician (born 1569)
* 1628
** 12 March - John Bull, composer (born c. 1562)
** 29 March - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (born 1546)
** 13 July - Robert Shirley, adventurer (born c. 1581)
** 23 August - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, statesman (born 1592)
** 30 September - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, writer (born 1554)
* 1629
** 23 March - Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (born c. 1580)

References

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