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1646 in England
Events from the year 1646 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 9 January - Battle of Bovey Heath: Parliament secures a significant victory over the Royalists in Devon.* 13 March - Parliament captures Cornwall after Royalists surrender at Truro....

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1647 in England
Events from the year 1647 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 30 January - Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.* March - Folk dancing and bear-baiting banned....

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1649 in England
Events from the year 1649 in England.-Incumbents:Monarch - King Charles I of England ; Interregnum-Events:* 3 January - An explosion of several barrels of gunpowder in Tower Street, London kills 67 people and destroys 60 houses....

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1650 in England
Events from the year 1650 in England.-Events:* 1 May - The future King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters.* 23 June - Charles arrives in Scotland where he signs the Covenant....


Events from the year 1648 in the Kingdom of England
Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...

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Events

  • 17 January - The Long Parliament
    Long Parliament
    The Long Parliament was made on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It received its name from the fact that through an Act of Parliament, it could only be dissolved with the agreement of the members, and those members did not agree to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and...

     passes the Vote of No Addresses
    Vote of No Addresses
    The Vote of No Addresses was a measure passed on 17 January 1648 by the English Long Parliament when they broke off negotiations with King Charles I. The vote was in response to the news that Charles I was entering into an engagement with the Scots...

    , breaking off negotiations with King Charles I
    Charles I of England
    Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

     and thereby setting the scene for the Second English Civil War
    Second English Civil War
    The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1652 and also include the First English Civil War and the...

    .
  • February - Ordinances passed against play
    Play (theatre)
    A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

    s; actors to be fined and theatres pulled down.
  • 8 March - Royalists seize Pembroke Castle
    Pembroke Castle
    Pembroke Castle is a medieval castle in Pembroke, West Wales. Standing beside the River Cleddau, it underwent major restoration work in the early 20th century. The castle was the original seat of the Earldom of Pembroke....

     in Wales
    Wales
    Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

    .
  • 30 April - Royalists capture Berwick
    Berwick-upon-Tweed
    Berwick-upon-Tweed or simply Berwick is a town in the county of Northumberland and is the northernmost town in England, on the east coast at the mouth of the River Tweed. It is situated 2.5 miles south of the Scottish border....

     and Carlisle.
  • 2 May
    • The Parliament of Scotland
      Parliament of Scotland
      The Parliament of Scotland, officially the Estates of Parliament, was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland. The unicameral parliament of Scotland is first found on record during the early 13th century, with the first meeting for which a primary source survives at...

       votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King.
    • The Parliament of England
      Parliament of England
      The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws...

       passes an act
      Act of Parliament
      An Act of Parliament is a statute enacted as primary legislation by a national or sub-national parliament. In the Republic of Ireland the term Act of the Oireachtas is used, and in the United States the term Act of Congress is used.In Commonwealth countries, the term is used both in a narrow...

       against blasphemy
      Blasphemy
      Blasphemy is irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things. Some countries have laws to punish blasphemy, while others have laws to give recourse to those who are offended by blasphemy...

      .
  • 8 May - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of St. Fagans
    Battle of St. Fagans
    The Battle of St. Fagans was a pitched battle in the Second English Civil War in 1648. A detachment from the New Model Army defeated an army of former Parliamentarian soldiers who had rebelled and were now fighting against Parliament.-Background:...

    .
  • 1 June - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Maidstone
    Battle of Maidstone
    The Battle of Maidstone was fought in the Second English Civil War and was a victory for the attacking parliamentarian troops over the defending Royalist forces.- Background :...

    .
  • 11 July - Second English Civil War: Siege of Pembroke
    Siege of Pembroke
    The Siege of Pembroke took place in 1648 during the Second English Civil War.- Background :In April 1648, Parliamentarian troops in Wales, who had not been paid for a long time, staged a Royalist rebellion under the command of the Colonel John Poyer, the Parliamentarian Governor of Pembroke Castle...

     ends with surrender of Pembroke Castle to Parliament.
  • 17 August - Second English Civil War: Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

    's New Model Army
    New Model Army
    The New Model Army of England was formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, and was disbanded in 1660 after the Restoration...

     defeats the Royalist
    Cavalier
    Cavalier was the name used by Parliamentarians for a Royalist supporter of King Charles I and son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration...

     Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton
    James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
    General Sir James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton KG was a Scottish nobleman and influential Civil war military leader.-Young Arran:...

     at the Battle of Preston
    Battle of Preston (1648)
    The Battle of Preston , fought largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire, resulted in a victory by the troops of Oliver Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots commanded by the Duke of Hamilton...

    .
  • 27 August - Second English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax
    Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
    Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a general and parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War...

     takes Colchester
    Colchester
    Colchester is an historic town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in Essex, England.At the time of the census in 2001, it had a population of 104,390. However, the population is rapidly increasing, and has been named as one of Britain's fastest growing towns. As the...

     for Parliament.
  • 18 September - Second English Civil War: Parliament and the King begin negotiating of the Treaty of Newport
    Treaty of Newport
    The Treaty of Newport was a failed treaty between Parliament and King Charles I of England, intended to bring an end to the hostilities of the English Civil War...

    .
  • 6 December - Pride's Purge
    Pride's Purge
    Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...

     of the House of Commons
    British House of Commons
    The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

    , creating the Rump Parliament
    Rump Parliament
    The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....

    .

Births

  • 1 January - Elkanah Settle
    Elkanah Settle
    Elkanah Settle was an English poet and playwright.He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His first tragedy, Cambyses, King of Persia, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667...

    , writer (died 1724
    1724 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1724 in Great Britain.-Incumbents:*Monarch - George I of Great Britain*Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig-Events:...

    )
  • 23 February - Arabella Churchill
    Arabella Churchill (royal mistress)
    Arabella Churchill was the mistress of King James II, and the mother of four of his children...

    , mistress of King James II
    James II of England
    James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...

     (died 1730
    1730 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.-Incumbents:*Monarch - King George II*Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig-Events:...

    )
  • 7 April - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
    John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
    John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC , was a poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.-Career:...

    , statesman and poet (died 1721
    1721 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1721 in Great Britain.-Incumbents:*Monarch - George I of Great Britain*Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig-Events:...

    )
  • August - Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton
    Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton
    Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton PC was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton and his second wife, Jane Goodwin, only daughter of Colonel Arthur Goodwin of Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and heiress to the extensive Goodwin estates in...

    , politician (died 1715
    1715 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1715 in Great Britain.-Events:* February to March - General election results in victory for the Whigs.* 27 March - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke flees to France. His part in secret negotiations with France leading to the Treaty of Utrecht has cast suspicion on him in...

    )
  • 15 December - Gregory King
    Gregory King
    Gregory King was an English genealogist, engraver and statistician.-Life:Gregory King was born at Lichfield, England. His father was a surveyor and landscape gardener. Gregory was a very bright boy and his father used him as an assistant in his surveying work. At 14 Gregory became a clerk to...

    , statistician (died 1712
    1712 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1712 in Great Britain.-Events:* 1 January - War of the Spanish Succession: Peace congress opens at Utrecht.* 17 January - Robert Walpole imprisoned in the Tower of London following charges of corruption....

    )
  • John Coode
    John Coode (Governor of Maryland)
    John Coode is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689...

    , colonial governor (died 1709
    1709 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1709 in Great Britain.-Events:* January to March - Unusually cold weather brings floating ice into the North Sea....

    )
  • Richard Hoare
    Richard Hoare
    Sir Richard Hoare was the founder of C. Hoare & Co, one of the United Kingdom's oldest private banks.-Career:Having been raised near Smithfield Market in London, Richard Hoare began his working life apprenticed to a goldsmith. He was granted the Freedom of the Goldsmiths' Company on 5 July 1672....

    , banker (died 1718
    1718 in Great Britain
    Events from the year 1718 in Great Britain.-Events:* 7 January - Occasional Conformity Act repealed.* 15 May - James Puckle patents the Puckle Gun, an early form of machine gun....

    )
  • Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
    Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
    Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II...

    , mistress of King Charles II
    Charles II of England
    Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

     (died
  • James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
    James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
    James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1660 to 1668, was an English nobleman....

    , (died 1683
    1683 in England
    Events from the year 1683 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 9 January - Charles II gives orders establishing the dates on which he will perform the "Touching the King's Evil" ceremony....

    )
  • Thomas Thynne
    Thomas Thynne (landowner)
    Thomas Thynne was an English landowner of the family that is now headed by the Marquess of Bath and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1670 to 1682. He went by the nickname "Tom of Ten Thousand" due to his great wealth...

    , landowner and politician (died 1682
    1682 in England
    Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 11 March - The Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers is founded in London.* 25 August - Following the Bideford witch trial, three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.* September - Halley's...

    )

Deaths

  • 2 February - George Abbot
    George Abbot (English writer)
    George Abbot was an English writer, known as "The Puritan" and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1648.-Life:...

    , writer (born c.1605)
  • 16 February - Robert Holborne
    Robert Holborne
    Sir Robert Holborne was an English lawyer and politician, of Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn . He acted as counsel for John Hampden in the ship-money case. He sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642 and supported the Royalist[ cause in the English Civil War...

    , lawyer and politician (born c. 1598)
  • 14 March - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
    Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
    Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron , English parliamentary general.-Early life:He was born in Yorkshire the eldest son of Thomas Fairfax, whom Charles I in 1627 created Lord Fairfax of Cameron in the Peerage of Scotland and received a military education in the Netherlands. Two of his...

    , general (born 1584)
  • 20 August - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
    Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
    Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.-Early life:...

    , diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583)
  • 30 October
    • Thomas Rainsborough
      Thomas Rainsborough
      Thomas Rainsborough , or Rainborough or Raineborough or Rainborowe or Rainbow or Rainborow, was a prominent figure in the English Civil War, and was the leading spokesman of the Levellers in the Putney Debates.-Life:He was the son of William Rainsborough, a captain and Vice-Admiral in the Royal...

      , Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born 1610)
    • Thomas Rawton
      Thomas Rawton
      Thomas Rawton was one of the highest-ranking officers to support the Levellers, and served with Parliament on both land and sea...

      , Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born c. 1610)
  • 17 November - Thomas Ford
    Thomas Ford (composer)
    Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.He was attached to the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of James I, who died in 1612...

    , composer (born c.1580)
  • Henry Burton
    Henry Burton (Puritan)
    Henry Burton , was an English puritan. Along with John Bastwick and William Prynne, Burton's ears were cut off in 1637 for writing pamphlets attacking the views of Archbishop Laud.-Early life:...

    , puritan (born 1578)
  • Susanna Hall
    Susanna Hall
    Susanna Hall , née Shakespeare, was the eldest child of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the older sister of Judith Quiney and Hamnet Shakespeare...

    , daughter of William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

     (born 1582)
  • Lawrence Hilliard
    Lawrence Hilliard
    Lawrence Hilliard was an English miniature painter.Hilliard, a son of Nicholas Hilliard and his wife Alice Brandon – was christened on 5 March 1582. He evidently derived his Christian name from that of his grandmother, Laurence Wall, the daughter of John Wall, a London goldsmith...

    , painter (born 1582)
  • Charles Lucas
    Charles Lucas
    Sir Charles Lucas was an English soldier, a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.-Biography:Lucas was the son of Sir Thomas Lucas of Colchester, Essex. As a young man Lucas served in the Netherlands under the command of his brother, and in the "Bishops' Wars" he commanded Cheesea troop of...

    , Royalist commander (born 1613)
  • Peter Oliver, painter (born 1594)
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