1643 in England

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Events from the year 1643 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles I
• Parliament – Revolutionary Long

Events

• 19 January – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Braddock Down secures dominance in Cornwall.
• 23 January – English Civil War: Leeds falls to Parliamentary forces.^[1]
• 13 March – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the First Battle of Middlewich.
• 18 March – Battle of New Ross fought in Ireland between English and Irish forces.^[2]
• 19 March – English Civil War: a Royalist victory at the Battle of Hopton Heath.^[2]
• 25 April – English Civil War: Reading falls to Parliament after the Siege of Reading.^[2]
• 13 May – English Civil War: parliamentary forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat Royalist forces at Grantham.^[1]
• 16 May – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Stratton confirms dominance in Cornwall and Devon.
• 14 June – Licensing Order of 1643 passed by Parliament to censor newspapers.^[2]
• 18 June – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Chalgrove Field.^[2]
• 30 June – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Adwalton Moor.^[2]
• 1 July – the Westminster Assembly of theologians ("divines") and parliamentarians is convened at Westminster Abbey with the aim of restructuring the Church of England.
• 5 July – English Civil War: Narrow Royalist victory at the Battle of Lansdowne.^[2]
• 13 July – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Roundway Down.^[2]
• 26 July – English Civil War: Royalists capture Bristol.^[3]
• 28 July – English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Gainsborough.^[2]
• 18 August – Parliament passes "An Ordinance for Explanation of a former Ordinance for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates with some Enlargements", including an "Oath of Abjuration" of the Pope.
• 20 September – English Civil War: Royalists defeated at the First Battle of Newbury.^[1]
• 25 September – the Solemn League and Covenant is signed between the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.^[1]
• 11 October – English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Winceby.^[2]
• 13 December – English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Alton.^[2]
• 25 December – Christmas Island is first sighted, by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company.^[4]
• 27 December – English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Second Battle of Middlewich.^[2]

Publications

• Cromwell's Soldiers' Pocket Bible.
• Dr Thomas Browne's spiritual testament Religio Medici ("true and full coppy").

Births

• 4 January (N.S.) – Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (died 1727)
• 16 February – John Sharp, Archbishop of York (died 1714)
• 1 November – John Strype, historian and biographer (died 1737)

Deaths

• 14 January – John Bois, Bible translator (born 1560)
• 2 March – Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, Parliamentary General (born 1608)
• 19 March – Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton, soldier and politician (born 1601)
• 24 June – John Hampden, parliamentarian (born c. 1595)
• 5 July – Bevil Grenville, soldier (born 1596)
• 25 July – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, statesman (born 1584)
• 20 August – Anne Hutchinson, Puritan preacher (born 1591)
• 20 September, at the Battle of Newbury:
  • Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, politician, soldier and author (born c. 1610)
  • Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (born 1610)
  • Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland (born 1620)
• 3 November – John Bainbridge, astronomer (born 1583)
• 29 November – William Cartwright, dramatist (born 1611)
• 8 December – John Pym, statesman (born 1583)
• approx. date – Henry Glapthorne, dramatist (born 1610)

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