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Agnes Mapledurham

Female Est 1595 - 1647  (52 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1597 
  • 1597—1597:
    Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor - Poor Rate collection allowed
2 1598 
  • 1598—1598:
    Bishop's transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers start - parish records were to be kept in 'great decent books of parchment' and copies or 'Bishop's Transcripts' of new entries were to be sent each month to the diocesan centre
3 1600 
  • 1 Jan 1600—1 Jan 1600:
    Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
  • 31 Dec 1600—31 Dec 1600:
    British East India Company founded
4 1601 
  • 1601—1601:
    Great English Poor Law Act passed
  • 1601—1601:
    First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
5 1602 
  • 20 Mar 1602—20 Mar 1602:
    Dutch East India Company founded
  • 8 Nov 1602—8 Nov 1602:
    Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
6 1603 
  • 24 Mar 1603—24 Mar 1603:
    Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns - under King James VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625)
  • 25 Jul 1603—25 Jul 1603:
    Coronation - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
7 1604 
  • 1 Nov 1604—1 Nov 1604:
    Shakespeare: Othello' first presented
8 1605 
  • 5 Nov 1605—5 Nov 1605:
    Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
9 1606 
  • 1606—1606:
    The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery leave England on 19th De c taking 144 days to reach America
  • 1606—1606:
    Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)
  • 31 Jan 1606—31 Jan 1606:
    Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators executed
  • 12 Mar 1606—12 Mar 1606:
    Adoption of Union Flag as the flag of Great Britain' (the term Union Jack is used officially only when the Union Flag is flown from the Jack Mast of a Royal Naval vessel)
10 1607 
  • 14 May 1607—14 May 1607:
    Jamestown, Virginia settled - to become the first permanent British colony in North America
11 1608 
  • 1608—1608:
    First use of telescope by Galileo - he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in Jan 1610
12 1610 
  • 1610—1610:
    James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland - Prebyterians persecuted and many of their records lost
13 1611 
  • 1611—1611:
    Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
  • 22 May 1611—22 May 1611:
    James VI & I created the title of baronet
14 1613 
  • 1613—1613:
    A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
  • 29 Jun 1613—29 Jun 1613:
    The Globe Theatre in London burns during a performance of Henry the Eighth (finally pulled down in 1644)
15 1616 
  • 23 Apr 1616—23 Apr 1616:
    Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
16 1618 
  • 1618—1618:
    Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
17 1619 
  • 4 Dec 1619—4 Dec 1619:
    (Nov 24 old style): Colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas)
18 1620 
  • 1620—1620:
    Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
  • 21 Dec 1620—21 Dec 1620:
    (Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New England (had initially set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
19 1621 
  • 1621—1621:
    Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
20 1622 
  • 1622—1622:
    First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
21 1624 
  • 1624—1624:
    Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
  • 1624—1624:
    Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
22 1625 
  • 1625—1625:
    The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
  • 27 Mar 1625—27 Mar 1625:
    Death of King James VI & I
23 1628 
  • 1 Mar 1628—1 Mar 1628:
    Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
24 1629 
  • 10 Mar 1629—10 Mar 1629:
    Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 yea
25 1633 
  • Jun 1633—Jun 1633:
    Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
26 1635 
  • 1635—1635:
    Letter Office of England & Scotland started
  • 1635—1635:
    Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
27 1636 
  • 1636—1636:
    Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
28 1638 
  • 1638—1638:
    King Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason - forced Scots to choose between their church and the King - a ?Covenant' swearing to resist these changes to the Death was signed in Greyfriars Church Edinburgh and was accepted by hundreds of thousands of Scots (revival of Presbyterian Church)
29 1639 
  • 1639—1639:
    Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
30 1640 
  • 3 Nov 1640—3 Nov 1640:
    Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish invasion
31 1641 
  • 1641—1641:
    Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
  • 1641—1641:
    Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
  • 23 Oct 1641—23 Oct 1641:
    50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
32 1642 
  • 1642—1642:
    The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
  • 1642—1642:
    English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
  • 22 Aug 1642—22 Aug 1642:
    Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to 1649)
  • 13 Nov 1642—13 Nov 1642:
    Battle of Turnham Green - Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
  • 24 Nov 1642—24 Nov 1642:
    Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
  • 18 Dec 1642—18 Dec 1642:
    Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
33 1643 
  • 13 Dec 1643—13 Dec 1643:
    Battle of Alton - victory for Parliamentarians - Sir Richard Bolle killed in St Lawrence's church
34 1644 
  • 29 Jun 1644—29 Jun 1644:
    Battle of Cropredy Bridge - Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
  • 2 Jul 1644—2 Jul 1644:
    Battle of Marston Moor, near York - Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
35 1645 
  • 1645—1645:
    Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland
  • 1645—1645:
    Scotland: Each county and burgh ordered to raise and maintain a number of foot soldiers, according to population, to serve as militia - population of Scotland estimated at 420,000
  • 1645—1645:
    Plague made its last appearance in Scotland
  • 14 Jun 1645—14 Jun 1645:
    Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
36 1646 
  • 5 May 1646—5 May 1646:
    Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
  • 20 Jun 1646—20 Jun 1646:
    Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford

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