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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1598 | - 1598—1598: Bishops' Transcripts of English & Welsh parish registers start. Parish records to be kept in 'books of parchment' & copies of new entries were to be sent to the diocese
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| 2 | 1601 | - 1601—1601: Great English Poor Law Act passed
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| 3 | 1603 | - 25 Jul 1603—25 Jul 1603: Coronation - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
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| 4 | 1605 | - 5 Nov 1605—5 Nov 1605: Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
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| 5 | 1606 | - 1606—1606: The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia: the Susan Constant, Godspeed,
and Discovery leave England 19th Dec taking 144 days to reach America
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| 6 | 1607 | - 14 May 1607—14 May 1607: Jamestown, Virginia settled - to become the first permanent British colony in
North America
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| 7 | 1613 | - 1613—1613: A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
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| 8 | 1620 | - 21 Dec 1620—21 Dec 1620: The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New England (had set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
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| 9 | 1625 | - 27 Mar 1625—27 Mar 1625: Death of King James VI & I
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| 10 | 1639 | - 1639—1639: Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
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| 11 | 1642 | - 1642—1642: The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
- 13 Nov 1642—13 Nov 1642: Battle of Turnham Green. Royalist forces withdraw from the Parliamentarian army and London
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| 12 | 1644 | - 29 Jun 1644—29 Jun 1644: Battle of Cropredy Bridge - Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
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| 13 | 1646 | - 5 May 1646—5 May 1646: Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
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| 14 | 1648 | - 1648—1648: Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
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| 15 | 1649 | - 1649—1649: Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
- 1649—1649: King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
- 6 Jan 1649—6 Jan 1649: 'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
- 30 Jan 1649—30 Jan 1649: King Charles I executed
- 19 May 1649—19 May 1649: Commonwealth declared
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| 16 | 1651 | - 1651—1651: The second English Civil War 1651-1652
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| 17 | 1653 | - 1653—1653: Commonwealth registers start
- 1653—1653: Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
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| 18 | 1660 | - 1660—1660: Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
- 1660—1660: Provincial Probate Courts re-established
- 1660—1660: Honourable East India Company founded by British
- 29 May 1660—29 May 1660: Restoration of British monarchy (Charles II) - 'Oak Apple Day' - theatres
reopened
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1598 - 1660 (62 years)
