1620s in England

Events from the 1620s in England. This decade sees a change of monarch.

1620s in England
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Incumbents

Events

  • 1620
    • 27 April – treaty with Spain arranges marriage between the Prince of Wales and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain in return for relaxation of laws concerning Roman Catholics.[1]
    • 3 July – Captain Andrew Shilling, on behalf of the Honourable East India Company, lays claim to Table Bay in Africa.[2]
    • 15 July – the armed merchant ship Mayflower embarks about 65 emigrants for New England at or near her home port of Rotherhithe on the Thames east of London.[3]
    • c. 19 July – the Mayflower anchors in Southampton Water to rendezvous with the Speedwell which on 22 July (1 August NS) sets out from Delfshaven carrying English separatist Puritans from Leiden, arriving on 26 July. On or about 5 August the ships set sail, but the Speedwell is found to be leaking.[3]
    • 12 or 13 August – the Mayflower and Speedwell put into Dartmouth, Devon, for repairs to the Speedwell.
    • 23 August – the Mayflower and Speedwell set out from Dartmouth; they are well out into the Atlantic when the Speedwell is again found to be leaking.[3]
    • 28 August – the Mayflower and Speedwell return again to England, anchoring off Plymouth in the Cattewater; the latter ship is given up as a participant in the voyage and on 2 September departs for London, with most of her passengers and stores having been transferred to the Mayflower.[3]
    • 6 September (16 September NS) – the Mayflower leaves Plymouth carrying the Pilgrims to Cape Cod in North America, where they land on 11 November.[4] She carries 41 "saints" (English separatists largely from Holland), 40 "strangers" (largely secular planters from London), 23 servants and hired workers, and c. 30 crew.
    • Publication of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon.
    • Cornelius Drebbel demonstrates the first navigable submarine in the River Thames;[5][6] his third is first demonstrated on 12 September 1624.
    • A severe frost freezes the Thames.[7]
The Market Hall in Chipping Campden was built in 1627.

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References

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