English History (Part 6)

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Historical Events

Events 501 - 600 of 1,349

Event of Interest

1668-03-27 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

King of England Charles II — King of England
Charles II

1668-04-13 John Dryden (36) appointed first English poet laureate by Charles II

Event of Interest

1669-05-31 Citing poor eyesight, English civil servant Samuel Pepys records the last event in his famous diary

Diarist Samuel Pepys — Diarist
Samuel Pepys

Event of Interest

1669-07-21 John Locke's Constitution of English colony Carolina is approved

Philosopher John Locke — Philosopher
John Locke

1670-06-01 English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1670-12-31 France & England sign Boyne-treaty
1671-04-22 King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1672-06-07 Battle by Solebay: Dutch admiral M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1673-03-29 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions
1673-06-14 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1673-08-09 Dutch under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674

1673-08-21 Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
1673-11-09 English King Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury
1674-02-09 English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1674-02-19 Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
1674-11-10 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
1675-03-04 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
1675-06-20 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag Native Americans form anti-English front under Metacom
1675-06-22 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1675-11-22 English king Charles II adjourns Parliament
1678-07-26 England and Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1678-07-30 English troops land in Flanders
1678-11-30 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1679-01-24 King Charles II disbands English parliament
1679-05-27 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England
1679-10-23 Meal Tub Plot against James Duke of York (future James II of England)
1679-11-15 English House of Commons accepts Exclusion Bill

Event of Interest

1681-03-04 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn — English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

1682-08-30 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

Event of Interest

1682-09-04 English astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet named after him

Astronomer, Mathematician and Physicist Edmond Halley — Astronomer, Mathematician and Physicist
Edmond Halley

1682-10-19 English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland
1682-10-27 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn
1682-12-02 English Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam
1683-06-06 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum
1683-06-12 Rye House plot against English King Charles II uncovered
1683-11-01 The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1683-12-25 English Whig leader Duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
1684-10-23 Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
1685-02-06 Duke of York becomes King James II of England and VII of Scotland upon the death of his brother Charles II
1686-04-04 English King James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1687-04-04 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in English churches
1687-07-02 King James II disbands English parliament

Historic Publication

1687-07-05 Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.

Physicist & Mathematician Isaac Newton — Physicist & Mathematician
Isaac Newton

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 501 - 600 of 4,813

1719-03-30 John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
1720-01-13 Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
1720-01-27 Samuel Foote, British actor, dramatist and theatre manager (Mirror), born in Truro, Cornwall (d. 1777)
1720-03-09 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
1720-07-18 Gilbert White, English "father of British naturalists"
1720-08-18 Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1720-08-30 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and Member of Parliament, born in Cardington, Bedfordshire (d. 1796)
1720-12-31 [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne (Jacobite rebellion), born in Rome (d. 1788)
1721-04-14 William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader
1721-08-04 Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1721-11-09 Mark Akenside, English poet and physician, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1770)
1721-12-25 William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
1722-04-11 Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols), born in Shipbourne, England (d. 1771)
1722-07-16 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey), born in London (d. 1803)
1722-08-11 Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
1722-11-05 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
1723-02-24 John Burgoyne, British general (surrendered at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War), born in Sutton, England (d. 1792)
1723-04-14 John Wainwright, English composer and organist (d. 1768)
1723-06-20 Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)

William Blackstone

1723-07-10 William Blackstone, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), born in London, England

1723-07-16 Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
1724-01-24 Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1724-08-25 George Stubbs, British animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion), born in Liverpool (d. 1806)
1724-10-31 Christopher Anstey, English poet (The New Bath Guide), born in Brinkley, England (d. 1805)

Samuel Hood

1724-12-12 Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars, born in Butleigh, England (d. 1816)

1725-02-04 Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
1725-03-28 Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, born in Nottingham (d. 1795)
1725-07-24 John Newton, English cleric and hymnist, born in Wapping, London (d. 1807)
1725-08-29 Charles Townshend, English politician, 3rd Viscount of Townshend, born in Raynham Hall, Norfolk (d. 1767)
1725-09-29 Robert Clive, English explorer and founder (British empire in India), born in Styche, England (d. 1773)
1725-10-17 John Wilkes, English radical, journalist (The North Briton) and politician, born in London (d. 1797)
1726-04-12 Charles Burney, English music historian, born in Shrewsbury, England (d. 1814)
1726-05-20 Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1726-07-20 William Jones, English composer and curate, born in Lowick (d. 1800)
1726-10-14 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)

James Wolfe

1727-01-02 James Wolfe, British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, born in Westerham, England (d. 1759)

1727-05-14 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized

Horatio Gates

1727-07-26 Horatio Gates, British-American soldier (general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War), born in Maldon, England (d. 1806)

1728-02-29 Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
1728-04-23 Samuel Wallis, English explorer (Wallis Island), born in Camelford, Cornwall (d. 1795)

1728-10-27 James Cook, British explorer, navigator and cartographer who was the first European to explore much of Australia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, born in Marton, Yorkshire, England (d. 1779)

Explorer James Cook — Explorer
James Cook

1729-04-13 Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore
1729-05-25 Jean de Neufville, Dutch/US merchant (started 4th English war)

William Howe

1729-08-10 William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British military leader (commander of British forces in the American Revolutionary War), born in England (d. 1814)

1730-01-15 John Malchair, German-born English artist, violinist and composer, born in Cologne (d. 1812) baptismal date
1730-03-27 Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar and critic, born in London (d. 1786)

Charles Watson-Wentworth

1730-05-13 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, British Prime Minister (Whig: 1765-66, 1782), born in Wentworth, Yorkshire, England (d. 1782)

1730-05-29 William Jackson [Jackson of Exeter], English composer and organist, born in Exeter, England (d. 1803)
1730-07-12 Josiah Wedgwood, English pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), born in Burslem
1730-12-08 John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia
1730-12-14 Capel Bond, English composer, born in Gloucester (d. 1790)
1731-10-10 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist and chemist (discovered hydrogen), born in Nice (d. 1810)
1731-11-15 William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS]
1731-11-26 William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
1731-12-12 Erasmus Darwin, influential English physician, poet, philosopher, and botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), born in Newark-on-Trent, England (d. 1807)
1732-12-06 Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)

Richard Arkwright

1732-12-23 Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame), born in Preston, England (d. 1792)

1733-01-17 Thomas Linley the elder, English composer and tenor, born in Badminton, Gloucestershire (d. 1795)
1733-03-24 Joseph Priestley, England, Birstall England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1733-07-27 Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer, born in Cockfield, County Durham, England (d. 1779)
1734-10-07 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1735-05-08 Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter, born in London (d. 1811)
1735-09-05 Johann Christian Bach (English Bach), German composer, 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1782)
1735-09-14 Robert Raikes, British philanthropist and Sunday school pioneer, born in Gloucester, England (d. 1811)

Augustus FitzRoy

1735-09-28 Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, British Prime Minister (1768-70), born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1811)

1735-11-10 Granville Sharp, English abolitionist, born in Durham, England (d. 1813)

1737-07-31 Princess Augusta Frederica of Great Britain, born in London, England (d. 1813)
1737-08-11 Joseph Nollekins, sculptor, born in London, England

William Cavendish-Bentinck

1738-04-14 William Cavendish-Bentinck, British 3rd Duke of Portland, Whig Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783, 1807-09), born in Nottinghamshire, (d. 1809)

1738-06-04 George III, King of Great Britain (1760-1820), born in London, England
1740-11-04 Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
1740-11-24 John Bacon, English sculptor
1742-01-08 Philip Astley, English 'Father of the Modern Circus', born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (d. 1814)
1742-11-05 Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)

Joseph Banks

1743-02-13 Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist who accompanied James Cook on board the Endeavour, born in London (d. 1820)

1743-04-24 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor (power loom), born in Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1823)
1744-10-27 Mary Moser, English painter (Flowers Still Life), born in London (d. 1819)
1745-01-23 William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1745-02-20 Henry James Pye, English poet, British Poet Laureate (1790-1813), born in London (d. 1813)
1746-01-11 William Curtis, English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine)
1746-06-03 James Hook, English composer, born in Norwich (d. 1827)
1746-09-28 Sir William Jones, British Orientalist and jurist born in London (d. 1794)
1747-01-15 John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1748-02-15 Jeremy Bentham, London England philosopher/originator (Utilitarian)
1748-09-17 Robert Wainwright, English composer and church organist (d.1782)
1749-05-17 Edward Jenner, English physician, father of immunology, pioneered smallpox vaccinations, born in Berkeley (d. 1823)
1751-12-10 George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1752-06-13 Fanny Burney, English novelist (Camille, Evelina), born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England (d. 1840)
1752-11-20 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1753-07-04 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
1753-08-01 Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
1753-08-12 Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
1753-09-10 John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum)
1753-12-03 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine)
1754-08-21 Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (Waxhaws Massacre), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1833)
1754-12-24 George Crabbe, English poet (Everlasting Mercy), born in Aldeburgh, England (d. 1832)
1755-01-07 Stephen Groombridge, Goudhurst Kent, English Astronomer (Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars)

Famous Weddings

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Famous Divorces

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 501 - 600 of 2,367

John Milton

1674-11-08 John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65

1674-12-09 Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65
1675-04-12 Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1675-07-28 Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1675-10-26 William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1675-11-11 Thomas Willis, English Physician (epidemiology, anatomy of the brain and nervous system), dies at 54
1675-11-28 Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1675-12-05 John Lightfoot, English theologist and literary (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
1676-09-10 Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1676-12-25 Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
1676-12-25 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
1677-05-04 Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
1677-05-20 George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (b. 1612)
1677-09-11 James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
1678-08-16 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57
1678-08-28 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1678-10-12 Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1679-05-03 James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
1679-07-11 William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1679-08-06 John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1679-10-12 William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)

Thomas Hobbes

1679-12-04 Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (Leviathan), dies of a stroke at 91

1680-02-17 Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer, dies at 81
1680-08-20 William Bedloe, English fraudster and Popish Plot informer, dies at 30
1680-09-09 Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1680-09-11 Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1680-12-08 Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
1681-01-28 Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
1681-04-09 Alfonso Marsh, English composer and lutenist, dies at 54
1681-06-09 William Lilly, English astrologer, dies
1681-07-25 Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1681-12-22 Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1682-10-19 Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1682-11-29 Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
1683-01-15 Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1683-03-19 Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1683-07-13 Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1683-07-21 Lord William Russell, English politician and plotter against Charles II, beheaded at 43
1683-08-18 Charles Hart, British Shakespearean actor, dies
1683-08-24 John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1683-09-09 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1683-12-07 John Oldham, English poet, dies of smallpox at 30
1683-12-15 Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
1684-04-05 William Brouncker, English mathematician (Brouncker's formula) and the 1st President of the Royal Society, dies at around 64

Roger Williams

1684-04-19 Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist, dies at 80

1684-05-04 John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
1684-07-06 Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1685-01-02 Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)

Charles II

1685-02-06 Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54

1685-02-24 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1685-07-28 Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1685-12-12 John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1686-02-10 William Dugdale, English antiquarian and Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies at 80
1686-04-06 Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
1686-06-23 William Coventry, English statesman
1686-07-10 John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1686-07-16 John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1686-10-26 John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1687-09-01 Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1687-10-21 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies
1687-11-14 Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II of England, dies from apoplexy at 37
1687-12-16 William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
1688-07-21 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1688-10-06 Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1689-01-06 Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
1689-03-18 John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
1689-04-16 Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1689-07-08 Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1689-12-29 Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)

On This Day

English History (Part 6)

Historical Events

Event of Interest

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Historic Publication

Famous Birthdays

William Blackstone

Samuel Hood

James Wolfe

Horatio Gates

James Cook

William Howe

Charles Watson-Wentworth

Richard Arkwright

Augustus FitzRoy

Ann Lee

Thomas Paine

Edward Gibbon

William Cavendish-Bentinck

Joseph Banks

Famous Weddings

Famous Divorces

Famous Deaths

John Milton

Thomas Hobbes

Roger Williams

Charles II

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