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   Date  Event(s)
1 1616 
  • 23 Apr 1616—23 Apr 1616:
    Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
2 1618 
  • 1618—1618:
    Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
3 1619 
  • 4 Dec 1619—4 Dec 1619:
    (Nov 24 old style): Colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas)
4 1620 
  • 1620—1620:
    Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
  • 21 Dec 1620—21 Dec 1620:
    (Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New England (had initially set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
5 1621 
  • 1621—1621:
    Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
6 1622 
  • 1622—1622:
    First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
7 1624 
  • 1624—1624:
    Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
  • 1624—1624:
    Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
8 1625 
  • 1625—1625:
    The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
  • 27 Mar 1625—27 Mar 1625:
    Death of King James VI & I
9 1628 
  • 1 Mar 1628—1 Mar 1628:
    Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
10 1629 
  • 10 Mar 1629—10 Mar 1629:
    Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 yea
11 1633 
  • Jun 1633—Jun 1633:
    Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
12 1635 
  • 1635—1635:
    Letter Office of England & Scotland started
  • 1635—1635:
    Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
13 1636 
  • 1636—1636:
    Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
14 1638 
  • 1638—1638:
    King Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason - forced Scots to choose between their church and the King - a ?Covenant' swearing to resist these changes to the Death was signed in Greyfriars Church Edinburgh and was accepted by hundreds of thousands of Scots (revival of Presbyterian Church)
15 1639 
  • 1639—1639:
    Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
16 1640 
  • 3 Nov 1640—3 Nov 1640:
    Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish invasion
17 1641 
  • 1641—1641:
    Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
  • 1641—1641:
    Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
  • 23 Oct 1641—23 Oct 1641:
    50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
18 1642 
  • 1642—1642:
    The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
  • 1642—1642:
    English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
  • 22 Aug 1642—22 Aug 1642:
    Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to 1649)
  • 13 Nov 1642—13 Nov 1642:
    Battle of Turnham Green - Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
  • 24 Nov 1642—24 Nov 1642:
    Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
  • 18 Dec 1642—18 Dec 1642:
    Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
19 1643 
  • 13 Dec 1643—13 Dec 1643:
    Battle of Alton - victory for Parliamentarians - Sir Richard Bolle killed in St Lawrence's church
20 1644 
  • 29 Jun 1644—29 Jun 1644:
    Battle of Cropredy Bridge - Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
  • 2 Jul 1644—2 Jul 1644:
    Battle of Marston Moor, near York - Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
21 1645 
  • 1645—1645:
    Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland
  • 1645—1645:
    Scotland: Each county and burgh ordered to raise and maintain a number of foot soldiers, according to population, to serve as militia - population of Scotland estimated at 420,000
  • 1645—1645:
    Plague made its last appearance in Scotland
  • 14 Jun 1645—14 Jun 1645:
    Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
22 1646 
  • 5 May 1646—5 May 1646:
    Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
  • 20 Jun 1646—20 Jun 1646:
    Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
23 1648 
  • 1648—1648:
    Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
  • 1648—1648:
    First practical thermometers made
24 1649 
  • 1649—1649:
    Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
  • 1649—1649:
    King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
  • 6 Jan 1649—6 Jan 1649:
    'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
  • 30 Jan 1649—30 Jan 1649:
    King Charles I executed
  • 19 May 1649—19 May 1649:
    Commonwealth declared
  • 20 Dec 1649—20 Dec 1649:
    Theatres banned by Cromwell
  • 20 Dec 1649—20 Dec 1649:
    Christmas banned by Cromwell
25 1650 
  • 1650—1650:
    Coffee brought to England about this time
26 1651 
  • 1651—1651:
    The second English Civil War (1651-1652)
  • 1651—1651:
    Scottish prisoners transported to the British settlements in America
  • 3 Sep 1651—3 Sep 1651:
    Battle of Worcester
27 1652 
  • 6 Apr 1652—6 Apr 1652:
    SA - The first white settlers, led by Jan van Riebeeck, arrive in Table Bay. The Cape Colony is governed by the Dutch East India Company(VOC)until 1795.
28 1653 
  • 1653—1653:
    Commonwealth registers start
  • 1653—1653:
    Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land
  • 1653—1653:
    Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
  • 20 Apr 1653—20 Apr 1653:
    Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
  • 16 Dec 1653—16 Dec 1653:
    Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
29 1654 
  • 1654—1654:
    SA - Asian convicts brought to Cape as slaves
30 1657 
  • 1657—1657:
    SA - Settlement in Liesbeeck Valley (Rondebosch) by first 9 free white burghers. Slaves imported from Madagascar and Java.
  • 1657—1657:
    SA - First Free Burghers settle on Khoekhoe land
  • 1657—1657:
    Post Office established by Act of Parliament [others say 1660]
  • 1657—1657:
    A few Jews permitted to settle in England
31 1658 
  • 1658—1658:
    Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector (-1660)
  • 3 Sep 1658—3 Sep 1658:
    Death of Oliver Cromwell
32 1659 
  • 1659—1660:
    SA - Armed Khoekhoe resist Dutch seizure of land
  • 1659—1659:
    Start of national meteorological Temperature records in the UK
  • 6 Feb 1659—6 Feb 1659:
    Date of first known bank cheque to be drawn
33 1660 
  • 1660—1679:
    SA - Expansion of Cape settlement
  • 1660—1660:
    SA - Almond hedge planted to protect the settlement from the Hottentots (Khoikhoi). First horses arrive at the Cape from Batavia, circa 1660s.
  • 1660—1660:
    Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
  • 1660—1660:
    Provincial Probate Courts re-established
  • 1660—1660:
    Clarendon code restricts Puritans' religious freedom
  • 1660—1660:
    Composition of light discovered by Newton
  • 1660—1660:
    Honourable East India Company founded by British
  • 1 Jan 1660—1 Jan 1660:
    Samuel Pepys starts his diary
  • 29 May 1660—29 May 1660:
    Restoration of British monarchy (Charles II) - 'Oak Apple Day' - theatres reopened
  • 17 Oct 1660—17 Oct 1660:
    Ten Regicides are executed at Charing Cross or Tyburn
  • 28 Nov 1660—28 Nov 1660:
    Twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society
  • 8 Dec 1660—8 Dec 1660:
    First actress plays in London (Margaret Hughes as Desdemona)
34 1661 
  • 1661—1661:
    SA - Rumours noted at Cape concerning "Briqua" - later known to be Tswana
  • 1661—1661:
    Restoration of Episcopacy in Scotland
  • 1661—1661:
    Board of Trade founded in London
  • 1661—1661:
    Hand-struck postage stamps first used
  • 1661—1661:
    Corporation Act prevents non-Anglicans from holding municipal office
  • 30 Jan 1661—30 Jan 1661:
    Oliver Cromwell formally 'executed', having been dead for over two years!
35 1662 
  • 1662—1662:
    'Hearth Tax' introduced - until 1689 (1690 in Scotland)
  • 1662—1662:
    Poor Relief Act or Act of Settlement' - gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin (repealed 1834)
  • 1662—1662:
    Tea introduced to Britain
  • May 1662—May 1662:
    SA - Jan van Riebeeck leaves the Cape for Malacca.
  • 24 Aug 1662—24 Aug 1662:
    Act of Uniformity - Acceptance of Book of Common Prayer required - About 2,000 vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists (Presbyterians and Independents) - Persecution of all non-conformists - Presbyterianism dis-established - Episcopalian Church of England restored

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