1637 in England

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Events from the year 1637 in England .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles I
• Secretary of State – Sir John Coke

Events

• 18 February – Eighty Years' War: Battle off Lizard Point: off the coast of Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepts an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
• 30 April – King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies. ^[1]
• 27 June – English merchants led by captain John Weddell establish the first trading settlement at Canton. ^[1]
• 30 June – William Prynne is branded as a seditious libeller, and sentenced to pillorying and mutilation. ^[2]
• 13 October – First-rate ship of the line HMS Sovereign of the Seas is launched at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £65,586, adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings.
• Member of Parliament John Hampden continues to refuse to pay ship money although a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality. ^[2]

Births

• March – Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II (died 1671)
• 17 March – Princess Anne (died 1640)
• 27 August – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of Maryland (died 1715)
• 6 December – Edmund Andros, colonial administrator (died 1714)

Deaths

• 6 August – Ben Jonson, writer (born 1572)
• 8 September – Robert Fludd, mystic (born 1574)
• 4 December – Nicholas Ferrar, trader (born 1592)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178. ISBN   0-7126-5616-2.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.  253–257. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.