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Monarch – Charles I (to 30 January); Interregnum

Events

3 January – An explosion of several barrels of gunpowder in Tower Street, London kills 67 people and destroys 60 houses.^[1]^[2]
20 to 27 January – Trial and conviction of King Charles I by a High Court of Justice convened in Westminster Hall.^[3]
30 January
- King Charles I beheaded outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall.^[4]
- The Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government comprising members of the Rump Parliament, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland.
- Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At this time none of the three Kingdoms have recognised him as ruler.
9 February – Eikon Basilike: the Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, purporting to be the spiritual autobiography of Charles I, is published.
23 February – Ships of the Parliamentary navy are to fly the flag of England.^[5]
17 March – The Rump Parliament formally abolishes the English monarchy by passing an act abolishing the kingship.^[3]
19 March – The House of Commons passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".^[3]
March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a General at Sea of the English fleet.^[6]
2 May – Lawyer and regicide Sir Isaac Dorislaus, while in The Hague to negotiate an alliance with the Dutch Republic, is murdered by royalist exiles.^[7]
17 May – Banbury mutiny ends – leaders of the Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged.
19 May – An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Rump Parliament.
22 May–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.
August – The Weybridge.
15 August – Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
3–11 September – Siege of Drogheda in Ireland: Cromwell's New Model Army massacres the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.^[4]
2–11 October – Sack of Wexford in Ireland: New Model Army massacres the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.
October – John Milton's Eikonoklastes: in Answer to a Book Intitl'd Eikon Basilike, a defence of the execution of Charles I, is published.

Births

23 February (bapt.) – John Blow, composer and organist (died 1708)
9 April – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1685)
15 September – Titus Oates, minister and plotter (died 1705)

Deaths

30 January – King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (executed) (born 1600)
9 March
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (executed) (born 1606)
- Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, soldier (executed) (born 1590)
26 March – John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born c. 1587)
11 July – Susanna Hall, daughter and heir of William Shakespeare (born 1583)
6 September – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, explorer and geographer (born 1574)
15 September – John Floyd, Jesuit preacher (born 1572)

References

^ Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & Co.
^ "BBC London, Features, Tower Street". Archived from the original on 25 February 2006. Retrieved 5 December 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 185–186.
^ ^a ^b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
^ Groom, Nick (2007). The Union Jack: the story of the British flag (Paperback ed.). London: Atlantic Books. p. 145.
^ Baumber, Michael (2004). "Blake, Robert (bap. 1598, d. 1657)". (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Todd, Margo (2004). "Dorislaus, Isaac (1595–1649)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

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