1622 in England


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Events from the 1620s in England.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 References
6 See also

Incumbents

Monarch — King James I (until 27 March 1625), King Charles I

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.^[1]
- 3 July - The Honourable East India Company lays claim to Table Bay in Africa.^[2]
- 6 September (OS) - The Mayflower leaves Plymouth carrying the Pilgrims to Cape Cod in North America.^[3]
- Publication of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon.
- Cornelius Drebbel demonstrates the first navigable submarine in the River Thames.^[4]^[5]
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.^[3]
- 4 July - 70-year-old James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, marries 17-year-old Jane Boteler, niece of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham as his second wife.^[6]
- 24 July - While hunting at Bramshill, George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally kills a keeper with his crossbow.^[6] A royal commission of inquiry narrowly finds in his favour.
- 18 December - The House of Commons protests against the King's right to imprison Members of Parliament who criticise his foreign policy.^[3]
- 27 December - Sir Edward Coke imprisoned for his part in the Protestation.^[3]
- 30 December - King James tears the page bearing the Protestation from the House of Commons Journal.^[3]
- Spring–October (approx.) - Corante: or, Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungarie, Spaine and France, one of the first English language newspapers (translated from the Dutch), circulates in London.
- Francis Mitchell becomes the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded (stripped of his knighthood) after being found guilty of extorting money from licensees of his monopoly on the licensing of inns.
- Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden appointed by the King to drain parkland around Windsor Castle and begins reclamation of Canvey Island.^[3]
- The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanical garden in the British Isles, is founded as a physic garden by Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby.^[7]
- Robert Burton publishes his treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy.
1622
- 6 January (probably) - The Banqueting House, Whitehall, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.^[8]
- 7 January - John Pym arrested for criticizing the King in Parliament.^[3]
- 8 February - King James I disbands Parliament.^[3]
- 22 February - A patent is granted for Dud Dudley's process for smelting iron ore with coke.
- 22 March - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (33% of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus settlement.
- 23 May - Nathaniel Butter begins publication in London of Newes from Most Parts of Christendom or Weekly News from Italy, Germany, Hungaria, Bohemia, the Palatinate, France and the Low Countries, one of the first regular English language newspapers.^[3]
- 25 May - The East India Company ship Tryall sinks when it hits the Tryal Rocks reef off Australia. 94 out of the 143 crew die.
- William Oughtred invents the slide rule.^[9]
- Second part of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion published.^[3]
- Sir Richard Hawkins' narrative of his adventures Voiage into the South Sea published.
1623
- February - Amboyna massacre: English East India Company traders killed by agents of the Dutch East India Company.^[3]
- May - The King's favourite George Villiers made Duke of Buckingham.^[3]
- 30 August - Negotiations of the planned Spanish Match, marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Maria Anna of Spain, break down.^[3]
- 8 November - Publication of the "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare (d. 1616), half of which have not previously been printed.^[3]
- Building of the Inigo Jones-designed Queen's Chapel in Westminster begins.^[3]
1624
- 12 February - Parliament assembles for the last time under James I's reign.^[3]
- 2 March - Parliament passes a resolution that its elected members are not permitted simply to resign their seats of their own will.
- 10 March - England declares war on Spain.^[1]
- May - Parliament impeaches the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, on suspicion of taking bribes.^[1]
- 25 May - Parliament passes the Statute of Monopolies.
- 24 June - Virginia becomes an English Crown Colony.^[1]
- 5–14 August - The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
- August - The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire begins to function as a trade guild of metalworkers based in Sheffield, having been incorporated by Act of Parliament.^[10]
- 12 December - Treaty with France arranges the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Henrietta Maria of France.
- The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer.
- Completion of the 15-arch Berwick Bridge by James Burrell.
1625
- 27 March - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England upon the death of James I.^[3]
- 13 June - Marriage of King Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.^[3]
- 18 June - The "Useless Parliament" refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, seeking to restrict him to one year instead.^[3]
- August
  - Over 40,000 killed by bubonic plague in London; court and Parliament temporarily moved to Oxford.^[3]
  - Barbary pirates enslave about 60 people from Mount's Bay in Cornwall.^[11]
- 8 September - Treaty of Southampton makes an alliance between England and the Dutch Republic against Spain.^[12]
- 8 October - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz.
- November - Cadiz expedition abandoned.^[1]
- 9 December - The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of Den Haag.^[3]
- An English colony is established in Barbados.^[3]
1626
- 2 February - Coronation of King Charles I in Westminster Abbey.
- 6 February - Parliament meets, and refuses to grant funds to King Charles without redress of various grievances.^[1]
- 15 June - King Charles dissolves Parliament after it refuses to grant him Tonnage and Poundage rights; imposes forced loans.^[1]
- 26 June - King Charles expels Queen Henrietta Maria's French attendants from court.^[1]
- Start of Western Rising of 1626–32: Anti-enclosure riots in the royal forests of South West England.^[13]
- Cornelius Vermuyden appointed by the King to drain Hatfield Chase.
1627
- January - French ships seized in the English Channel, resulting in an undeclared war with France.^[1]
- 2 June - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leads an expedition to assist the Huguenots at the Siege of La Rochelle.^[3]
- 8 November - Duke of Buckingham leaves La Rochelle, having lost half of his expeditionary force.^[1]
- 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.^[1]
- Barbary corsairs from the Republic of Salé begin a 5-year occupation of the Bristol Channel island of Lundy under the command of Dutch renegade Jan Janszoon.^[14]
- Francis Bacon's New Atlantis published posthumously.^[1]
1628
- February - Writs are issued by Charles I of England compelling every county in England (not just seaport towns) to pay ship tax by 1 March (1628).
- 17 March - Charles I reconvenes Parliament. Oliver Cromwell becomes an MP for the first time.^[1]
- 7 June - Charles I forced to accept the Petition of Right, as a concession to gain his subsidies.^[3]
- 23 August - John Felton assassinates George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.^[3]
- December - Thomas Wentworth appointed President of the Council of the North.^[3]
- Publication of Sir Edward Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England begins with A Commentary upon Littleton.
- William Harvey publishes his findings about blood circulation in Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (published in Frankfurt).^[9]
1629
- 20 January - Parliament criticises the King for levying Tonnage and Poundage without its authority.^[3]
- 11 February–19 June - Around 350 English Puritans on six ships, led by Francis Higginson in the Lyon's Whelp, sail from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to Salem to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America as part of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640).^[15]
- 2 March - Parliament criticises Archbishop William Laud's religious reforms.^[3]
- 4 March - Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal Charter.
- 10 March - The King dissolves Parliament and begins an 11-year Personal Rule.^[1]

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 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)
- 27 June - 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)

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1622 in England

1622 in England

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