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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1594 | - 1594: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
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| 2 | 1597 | - 1597: Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor Poor Rate collection
allowed
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| 3 | 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
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| 4 | 1600 | - 1 Jan 1600: Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
- 31 Dec 1600: British East India Company founded
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| 5 | 1601 | - 1601: First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
- 1601: Great English Poor Law Act passed
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| 6 | 1602 | - 20 Mar 1602: Dutch East India Company founded
- 8 Nov 1602: Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
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| 7 | 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: Coronation James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
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| 8 | 1604 | - 1 Nov 1604: Shakespeare: "Othello" first presented
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| 9 | 1605 | - 5 Nov 1605: Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
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| 10 | 1606 | - 1606: Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)
- 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
- 31 Jan 1606: Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators executed
- 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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| 11 | 1607 | - 14 May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia settled to become the first permanent British colony in
North America
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| 12 | 1608 | - 1608: First use of telescope by Galileo he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in
Jan 1610
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| 13 | 1610 | - 1610: James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland Prebyterians persecuted
and many of their records lost
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| 14 | 1611 | - 1611: Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
- 22 May 1611: James VI & I created the title of baronet
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| 15 | 1613 | - 1613: A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
- 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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| 16 | 1616 | - 23 Apr 1616: Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
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| 17 | 1618 | - 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
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| 18 | 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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| 19 | 1620 | - 1620: Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
- 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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| 20 | 1621 | - 1621: Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
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| 21 | 1622 | - 1622: First English newspaper appeared - "Weekly News"
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| 22 | 1624 | - 1624: Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
- 1624: Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
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| 23 | 1625 | - 1625: The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
- 27 Mar 1625: Death of King James VI & I
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| 24 | 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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| 25 | 1629 | - 10 Mar 1629: Parliament dissolved by King Charles I did not meet for another 11 yea
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| 26 | 1633 | - Jun 1633: Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
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| 27 | 1635 | - 1635: Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
- 1635: Letter Office of England & Scotland started
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| 28 | 1636 | - 1636: Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
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| 29 | 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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| 30 | 1639 | - 1639: Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
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| 31 | 1640 | - 3 Nov 1640: Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish
invasion
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| 32 | 1641 | - 1641: Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
- 1641: Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
- 23 Oct 1641: 50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
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| 33 | 1642 | - 1642: English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
- 1642: The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
- 22 Aug 1642: Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham First Civil War in England (to
1649)
- 13 Nov 1642: Battle of Turnham Green Royalist forces withdraw in face of the
Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
- 24 Nov 1642: Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
- 18 Dec 1642: Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
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| 34 | 1643 | - 13 Dec 1643: Battle of Alton victory for Parliamentarians Sir Richard Bolle killed in St
Lawrence's church
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| 35 | 1644 | - 29 Jun 1644: Battle of Cropredy Bridge Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
- 2 Jul 1644: Battle of Marston Moor, near York Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
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| 36 | 1645 | - 1645: Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland
- 1645: Plague made its last appearance in Scotland
- 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
- 14 Jun 1645: Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
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| 37 | 1646 | - 5 May 1646: Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
- 20 Jun 1646: Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
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| 38 | 1648 | - 1648: First practical thermometers made
- 1648: Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
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| 39 | 1649 | - 1649: Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
- 1649: King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
- 6 Jan 1649: 'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
- 30 Jan 1649: King Charles I executed
- 19 May 1649: Commonwealth declared
- 20 Dec 1649: Christmas banned by Cromwell
- 20 Dec 1649: Theatres banned by Cromwell
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| 40 | 1650 | - 1650: Coffee brought to England about this time
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| 41 | 1651 | - 1651: Scottish prisoners transported to the British settlements in America
- 1651: The second English Civil War (1651-1652)
- 3 Sep 1651: Battle of Worcester
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| 42 | 1653 | - 1653: Commonwealth registers start
- 1653: Provincial probate courts abolished probates granted only in London
- 1653: Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land
- 20 Apr 1653: Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
- 16 Dec 1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,
Scotland and Ireland
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| 43 | 1657 | - 1657: A few Jews permitted to settle in England
- 1657: Post Office established by Act of Parliament [others say 1660]
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| 44 | 1658 | - 1658: Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector (-1660)
- 3 Sep 1658: Death of Oliver Cromwell
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1594 - 1658 (64 years)
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