1600s in England

Events from the 1600s in England. This decade marks the end of the Elizabethan era with the beginning of the Jacobean era and the Stuart period.

1600s in England
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Incumbents

Events

King James I of England/VI of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time
First version of the Union Flag, see 12 April 1606

Births

  • 1600
  • 1601
  • 1602
  • 1602 or 1603
  • 1603
    • 21 January – Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (died 1639)
    • 27 January – Harbottle Grimston, politician (died 1685)
    • 18 March – Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (died 1697)
    • 11 July – Kenelm Digby, privateer and alchemist (died 1665)
    • 20 November (bapt.) – Daniel Blagrave, Member of Parliament (died 1668)
    • 21 December – Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (died 1684)
    • John Ashburnham, Royalist Member of Parliament (died 1671)
  • 1604
    • 29 May (bapt.) – Isaac Ambrose, Puritan divine (died 1664)
    • 3 August – John Eliot, puritan missionary (died 1690)
    • 13 September – William Brereton, soldier and politician (died 1661)
    • 8 November (bapt.)Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691)
    • 23 November (bapt.) – Jasper Mayne, dramatist (died 1672)
  • 1605
  • 1606
    • 4 January (bapt.) – Edmund Castell, orientalist (died 1685)
    • 28 February – William Davenant, poet and playwright (died 1668)
    • March – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
    • 3 March – Edmund Waller, poet (died 1687)
    • 27 September – Richard Busby, clergyman (died 1695)
    • 4 November (bapt.) – Thomas Herbert, traveller and historian (died 1682)
    • John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, politician (died 1685)
    • Approximate date
      • Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
      • Joan Carlile, née Palmer, professional portrait painter (died 1679)
      • Thomas Washbourne, clergyman and poet (died 1687)
  • 1607
    • 31 January – James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, Royalist noble (executed 1651)
    • 5 April (bapt.) – John Boys, Royalist soldier, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (died 1664)
    • 10 March – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, statesman (died 1667)
    • 26 November – John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (died 1638)
    • John Dixwell, judge and regicide (died 1689)
  • 1608
    • 15 April – John Huddleston, Catholic clergyman (died 1698)
    • 20 April – Edward Rainbowe, clergyman and preacher (died 1684)
    • June – Richard Fanshawe, diplomat (died 1666)
    • 19 June – Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
    • 14 July – George Goring, Lord Goring, Royalist soldier (died 1657)
    • 4 August – John Tradescant the Younger, botanist and gardener (died 1662)
    • 13 November – John Desborough, soldier and politician (died 1680)
    • 6 December – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, soldier (died 1670)
    • 9 December – John Milton, poet (died 1674)
    • Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln (died 1691)
  • 1609
    • 10 February – John Suckling, poet (died 1642)
    • 18 February – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian and statesman (died 1674)
    • 29 March – Sarah Boyle, noblewoman (died 1633)
    • 8 October – John Clarke, physician (died 1676)
    • 19 October – Gerrard Winstanley, Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)
    • 26 October – William Sprague, co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 1675)
    • 1 November – Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice (died 1676)
    • 24 December – Philip Warwick, writer and politician (died 1683)
    • Samuel Cooper, miniature painter (died 1672)

Deaths

  • 1600
  • 1601
  • 1602
    • 13 February – Alexander Nowell, clergyman (born 1507)
    • October – Thomas Morley, composer (born 1557)
    • 29 November – Anthony Holborne, composer (born c. 1545)
  • 1603
    • 15 January – Catherine Carey, Lady in waiting to Elizabeth I of England (year of birth unknown)
    • 24 March – Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533)[32]
    • 8 September – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, politician (born 1547)
    • 28 October (burial) – Ralph Lane, explorer (born 1530)
    • 9 December – William Watson, Catholic priest and conspirator (executed) (born 1559)
    • 10 December – William Gilbert, scientist (plague) (born 1544)
    • 27 December – Thomas Cartwright, Puritan clergyman (born c. 1535)
    • Edward Fenton, navigator (year of birth unknown)
    • Probable date – Will Kempe, comic performer (year of birth unknown)
  • 1604
  • 1605
    • 5 April – Adam Loftus, Catholic archbishop (born c. 1533)
    • 6 April – John Stow, historian and antiquarian (born 1525)
    • 11 September – Sir Thomas Tresham, politician (born 1550)
    • 8 November – Robert Catesby, conspirator (born 1573)
    • December – Francis Tresham, conspirator (born 1567)
    • 29 December – John Davis, explorer (born 1550)
  • 1606
  • 1607
    • May – Edward Dyer, courtier and poet (born 1543)
    • 21 May – John Rainolds, scholar and Bible translator (born 1549)
    • 10 June – John Popham, Lord Chief Justice (born 1553)
    • 7 July – Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (born 1562
    • 22 August – Bartholomew Gosnold, explorer and privateer (born 1572)
    • 20 December – Sir John Bourke of Brittas, Irish recusant (executed) (born 1550)
    • Henry Chettle, writer (born 1564)
  • 1608
    • 13 February – Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (born 1527)
    • 26 February – John Still, bishop (born c. 1543)
    • 29 March – Laurence Tomson, Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
    • 19 April – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (born 1536)
    • c. 24 August – Edmund Whitelocke, soldier and courtier (born 1565)
    • 19 October – Geoffrey Fenton, writer and politician (born c. 1539)
    • December
      • John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (born 1527)
      • William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (born c. 1541)
  • 1609
    • 9 March – William Warner, poet (born c. 1558)
    • December – Barnabe Barnes, poet (born c. 1571)

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