1630s in England

1630s in England

Events from the 1630s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Charles I of England

Events

* 1630
** The Winthrop Fleet takes 700 immigrants from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and founds Boston.
** Thomas Middleton's satirical comedy "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" published posthumously.
* 1631
** Philip Massinger's play "Believe as You List" first performed.
** Poor harvest for second year in a row causes widespread social unrest.
* 1632
** April - Royal charter issued for the foundation of Maryland colony; Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor.
** The Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays published.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=253–257]
** Publication of William Prynne's "Histriomastix", an attack on the English Renaissance theatre.
* 1633
** May - King Charles revives medieval forest laws to raise funds from fines.
** 6 August - William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
** John Ford's play "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" published.
** Earliest surviving edition of the Christopher Marlowe play "The Jew of Malta" published.
** John Donne's "Collected Poems" published posthumously.
* 1634
** 7 May - William Prynne sentenced by the Star Chamber to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment, pillorying and the loss of part of his ears when his "Histriomastix" is viewed as an attack on King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria.
** 20 October - King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navy.
** First Newmarket Gold Cup horse race.
** Cornelius Vermuyden begins the draining of The Fens to reclaim farmland.
* 1635
** 4 August - Second writ for ship money is issued, extending the payments to inland towns.
** Peter Paul Rubens paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
** First secondary school established in the North American colonies; the English High and Latin School, at Boston.
** First General Post Office opens to the public, at Bishopsgate, London.
** English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.
* 1636
** 9 October - John Hampden refuses to pay ship money after a third writ is issued.
** New College founded at the English colony of Massachusetts; later re-named 'Harvard'.
* 1637
** 30 April - King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies.
** 30 June - William Prynne branded a seditious libeller, and sentenced to pillorying and mutilation.
** Member of Parliament John Hampden continues to refuse to refuse to pay ship money even a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality.
** English merchants establish the first trading settlement at Canton.
* 1638
** 18 April - flogging of John Lilburne for distributing Puritan publications.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1638.htm|title="1638", British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60|accessdate=2007-11-23]
** 12 June - trial of John Hampden for non-payment of ship money concludes.
** 21 October - Great thunderstorm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
** John Milton's "Lycidas" published.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 177-178|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 1639
** 26 January - King Charles I tries to raise an army to fight the Scottish Covenanters.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1639.htm|title="1639", British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60|accessdate=2007-11-23]
** 27 February - Charles denounces the Covenanters.
** 21 April - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke imprisoned for refusing to fight against the Covenanters.
** 25 April - Charles issues a proclamation promising to pardon rebels.
** 14 May - Charles issues a further proclamation promising to settle the Covenanters' grievances and not to invade Scotland.
** 19 June - Treaty of Berwick signed between the King and the Covenanters.
** 15 September - Battle of the Downs between the Dutch and Spanish in English waters.
** 4 December - astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus.

Births

* 1630
** 28 April - Charles Cotton, poet (died 1687)
** 29 May - King Charles II of England (died 1685)
** 1 August - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, statesman (died 1673)
** October - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1694)
* 1631
** 1 January - Katherine Philips, poet (died 1664)
** 20 February - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, statesman (died 1712)
** 19 August - John Dryden, writer (died 1700)
** 4 November - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1660)
** 14 December - Lady Anne Finch Conway, philosopher (died 1679)
* 1632
** 29 August - John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
** 20 October - Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723)
** 17 December - Anthony Wood, antiquarian (died 1695)
* 1633
** 23 February - Samuel Pepys, civil servant and diarist (died 1703)
** 14 October - King James II of England (died 1701)
** 11 November - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, writer and statesman (died 1695)
** Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1708)
* 1635
** 18 July - Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)
** 22 November - Francis Willughby, biologist (died 1672)
** 28 December - Princess Elizabeth of England (died 1650)
* 1636
** 29 June - Thomas Hyde, orientalist (died 1703)
** 29 September - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
* 1637
** March - Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II (died 1671)
** 17 March - Princess Anne of England (died 1640
* 1638
** 24 January - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (died 1706)
** 6 May - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
** Martin Lister, naturalist (died 1712)
** Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, diplomat (died 1709)
** William Sacheverell, statesman (died 1691)
* 1639
** 7 March - Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (died 1672)
** 8 July - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (died 1660)
** 29 September - Lord William Russell, politician (died 1683)

Deaths

* 1630
** 26 January - Henry Briggs, mathematician (born 1556)
** 12 February - Fynes Moryson, traveller and writer (born 1566)
** 26 February - William Brade, composer (born 1560)
** 10 April - William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, courtie (born 1580)
** 17 September - Thomas Lake, statesman (born 1567)
** Gabriel Harvey, writer (born c. 1545)
* 1631
** 1 January - Thomas Hobson, carrier and origin of the phrase "Hobson's choice" (born 1544)
** 31 March - John Donne, writer and prelate (born 1572)
** 6 May - Robert Bruce Cotton, politician (born 1570)
** 21 June - John Smith of Jamestown, soldier and colonist (born 1580)
** 23 December - Michael Drayton, poet (born 1563)
* 1632
** 22 June - James Whitelocke, judge (born 1570)
** 25 August - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c. 1572)
** 27 November - John Eliot, statesman (born 1592)
* 1633
** 1 March - George Herbert, poet and orator (born 1593)
** 5 August - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1562)
** 10 August - Anthony Munday, writer (born 1553)
** 14 November - William Ames, philosopher (born 1576)
* 1634
** 12 May - George Chapman, author (born c. 1559)
** 25 June - John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
** 9 August - William Noy, jurist (born 1577)
** 3 September - Edward Coke, colonial entrepreneur and jurist (born 1552)
** 25 December - Lettice Knollys, noblewoman (born 1540)
* 1635
** March - Thomas Randolph, poet (born 1605)
** 27 March - Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)
** 15 November - Thomas Parr, Alleged oldest living man (born 1483)
** John Hall, physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (year of birth unknown)
** Anthony Shirley, traveller (born 1565)
* 1636
** 18 April - Julius Caesar, judge (born c. 1557)
* 1637
** 6 August - Ben Jonson, writer (born 1572)
** 8 September - Robert Fludd, mystic (born 1574)
** 4 December - Nicholas Ferrar, trader (born 1592)
* 1638
** 14 September - John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (born 1607)
* 1639
** 7 November - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, politician (born c. 1560)

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