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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 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)
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| 2 | 1607 | - 14 May 1607—14 May 1607:
Jamestown, Virginia settled - to become the first permanent British colony in
North America
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| 3 | 1608 | - 1608—1608:
First use of telescope by Galileo - he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in
Jan 1610
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| 4 | 1610 | - 1610—1610:
James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland - Prebyterians persecuted
and many of their records lost
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| 5 | 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
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| 6 | 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)
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| 7 | 1616 | - 23 Apr 1616—23 Apr 1616:
Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
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| 8 | 1618 | - 1618—1618:
Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
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| 9 | 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)
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| 10 | 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)
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| 11 | 1621 | - 1621—1621:
Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
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| 12 | 1622 | - 1622—1622:
First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
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| 13 | 1624 | - 1624—1624:
Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
- 1624—1624:
Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
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| 14 | 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
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| 15 | 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
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| 16 | 1629 | - 10 Mar 1629—10 Mar 1629:
Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 yea
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| 17 | 1633 | - Jun 1633—Jun 1633:
Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
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| 18 | 1635 | - 1635—1635:
Letter Office of England & Scotland started
- 1635—1635:
Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
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| 19 | 1636 | - 1636—1636:
Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
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| 20 | 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)
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| 21 | 1639 | - 1639—1639:
Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
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| 22 | 1640 | - 3 Nov 1640—3 Nov 1640:
Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish
invasion
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| 23 | 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
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| 24 | 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
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| 25 | 1643 | - 13 Dec 1643—13 Dec 1643:
Battle of Alton - victory for Parliamentarians - Sir Richard Bolle killed in St
Lawrence's church
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| 26 | 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
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| 27 | 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
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| 28 | 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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| 29 | 1648 | - 1648—1648:
Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
- 1648—1648:
First practical thermometers made
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| 30 | 1649 | - 1649—1649:
Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
- 1649—1649:
King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
- 6 Jan 1649—6 Jan 1649:
'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
- 30 Jan 1649—30 Jan 1649:
King Charles I executed
- 19 May 1649—19 May 1649:
Commonwealth declared
- 20 Dec 1649—20 Dec 1649:
Theatres banned by Cromwell
- 20 Dec 1649—20 Dec 1649:
Christmas banned by Cromwell
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| 31 | 1650 | - 1650—1650:
Coffee brought to England about this time
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