1633 in England

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Events from the year 1633 in England.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – Charles I
* Secretary of State – Sir John Coke
* Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

## Events

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* 13 February – Fire engines are used for the first time in England to control and extinguish a fire that breaks out at London Bridge, but not before 43 houses are destroyed.[1]
* May – King Charles revives medieval forest laws to raise funds from fines.
* 1 August – Exeter School is founded in Devon.
* 6 August – William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 18 October – Charles I reissues the Declaration of Sports, which had originated during his father's reign, listing the sports and recreations permitted on Sundays and other holy days.
* St Paul's, Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones in 1631 overlooking his piazza, opens to worship, the first wholly new parish church built in London since the English Reformation.
* English colonists settle what will become the town of Hingham, Massachusetts.

## Literature

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* John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore published.
* Earliest surviving edition of the Christopher Marlowe play The Jew of Malta published, around 40 years after its first performance.
* John Donne's collected Poems published posthumously.

## Births

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* 23 February – Samuel Pepys, civil servant and diarist (died 1703)
* 26 March (bapt.) – Mary Beale, portrait painter (died 1699)
* 14 October – King James II of England (died 1701)
* 11 November – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, writer and statesman (died 1695)
* 3 December (bapt.) – Sir Anthony Deane, naval architect and politician (died 1721)
* Approximate date
* Thomas Armstrong, politician (executed 1684)
* Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1708)

## Deaths

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* 17 February – Frances Walsingham, noblewoman (born 1567)
* 1 March – George Herbert, poet and orator (born 1593)
* 5 August – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1562)
* 10 August – Anthony Munday, writer (born 1553)
* 14 November – William Ames, philosopher (born 1576)

## References

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1. ^ Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great". The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. and E. Layton. p. 29.

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