1634 in England
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Incumbents
Events
- March – Leonard Calvert leads the first group of settlers to the new English colony of Maryland in North America
- 5 May – A royal proclamation confines flying of the Union Flag (the first recorded reference to it by this name) to the king's ships; English merchant vessels are to fly the flag of England.[1]
- 7 May – William Prynne is sentenced by the Star Chamber to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment, pillorying and the loss of part of his ears when his Histriomastix is viewed as an attack on King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria
- 20 October – King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navy
Undated
- Cornelius Vermuyden begins the draining of The Fens to reclaim farmland
- First Newmarket Gold Cup horse race
- Thomas Johnson begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants.
- The position of Keeper of the Archives is established at Oxford University
Literature
- 22 January – William Davenant's comedy The Wits first performed by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre
- John Ford's history play Perkin Warbeck published.
Births
- 25 March – George Bull, bishop (died 1710)
- 14 June – Nathaniel Bond, politician (died 1707)
- Unknown – Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, diplomat (died 1705)
Deaths
- 12 May – George Chapman, author (born c. 1559)
- 25 June – John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
- 9 August – William Noy, jurist (born 1577)
- 3 September – Edward Coke, colonial entrepreneur and jurist (born 1552)
- 25 December – Lettice Knollys, noblewoman (born 1540)
References
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