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1637 in England
Years of the 17th century in England
1637 in England
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Events from the year
1637
in
England
.
Incumbents
[
edit
]
Monarch
–
Charles I
Secretary of State
–
Sir John Coke
Events
[
edit
]
18 February –
Eighty Years' War
:
Battle off Lizard Point
: off the coast of
Cornwall
, a
Spanish
fleet intercepts an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
30 April – King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem
emigration
to the
North American
colonies.
[
1
]
27 June – English merchants led by captain
John Weddell
establish the first trading settlement at
Canton
.
[
1
]
30 June –
William Prynne
is branded as a seditious libeller, and sentenced to
pillorying
and mutilation.
[
2
]
13 October –
First-rate
ship of the line
HMS
Sovereign of the Seas
is launched at
Woolwich Dockyard
at a cost of £65,586, adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings.
Member of Parliament
John Hampden
continues to refuse to pay ship money although a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality.
[
2
]
Births
[
edit
]
March –
Anne Hyde
, first wife of King
James II
(died
1671
)
17 March –
Princess Anne
(died
1640
)
27 August –
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
, Governor of Maryland (died 1715)
6 December –
Edmund Andros
, colonial administrator (died 1714)
Deaths
[
edit
]
6 August –
Ben Jonson
, writer (born
1572
)
8 September –
Robert Fludd
, mystic (born
1574
)
4 December –
Nicholas Ferrar
, trader (born
1592
)
References
[
edit
]
^
a
b
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
a
b
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
253–257
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
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