Incumbents

Events

• 17 January - The Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the Second English Civil War.
• February - Ordinances passed against plays; actors to be fined and theatres pulled down.
• 8 March - Royalists seize Pembroke Castle in Wales.
• 30 April - Royalists capture Berwick and Carlisle.
• 2 May
• The Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King.
• The Parliament of England passes an act against blasphemy.
• 8 May - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of St. Fagans.
• 1 June - Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Maidstone.
• 11 July - Second English Civil War: Siege of Pembroke ends with surrender of Pembroke Castle to Parliament.
• 17 August - Second English Civil War: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeats the Royalist Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton at the Battle of Preston.
• 27 August - Second English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax takes Colchester for Parliament.
• 18 September - Second English Civil War: Parliament and the King begin negotiating of the Treaty of Newport.
• 6 December - Pride's Purge of the House of Commons, creating the Rump Parliament.

Undated

• George Fox founds the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Births

• 1 January - Elkanah Settle, writer (died 1724)
• 23 February - Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (died 1730)
• 7 April - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, statesman and poet (died 1721)
• August - Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, politician (died 1715)
• 15 December - Gregory King, statistician (died 1712)
• John Coode, colonial governor (died 1709)
• Richard Hoare, banker (died 1718)
• Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, mistress of King Charles II (died
• James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, (died 1683)
• Thomas Thynne, landowner and politician (died 1682)

Deaths

• 2 February - George Abbot, writer (born c.1605)
• 16 February - Robert Holborne, lawyer and politician (born c. 1598)
• 14 March - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, general (born 1584)
• 20 August - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583)
• 30 October
• Thomas Rainsborough, Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born 1610)
• Thomas Rawton, Leveller (killed in an attempted abudction by Royalists) (born c. 1610)
• 17 November - Thomas Ford, composer (born c.1580)
• Henry Burton, puritan (born 1578)
• Susanna Hall, daughter of William Shakespeare (born 1582)
• Lawrence Hilliard, painter (born 1582)
• Charles Lucas, Royalist commander (born 1613)
• Peter Oliver, painter (born 1594)

References

See also