1638 in England
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Events from the year 1638 in England.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 18 April – flogging of John Lilburne for refusing to swear an oath when brought before the court of Star Chamber for distributing Puritan publications.[1]
- 12 June – trial of John Hampden for non-payment of ship money concludes: a narrow majority of judges find the tax to be legal.[1]
- 21 October – The Great Thunderstorm at Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Devon: 4 are killed and around 60 injured when probable ball lightning strikes the parish church.
- The Queen's House at Greenwich, designed by Inigo Jones in 1616 as the first major example of classical architecture in the country, is completed for Henrietta Maria.[2]
- John Milton's elegy "Lycidas" is published.[3]
Births[edit]
- 24 January – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (died 1706)
- 6 March– Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
- 2 June – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, politician (died 1709)
- 24 December – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, diplomat (died 1709)
- William Sacheverell, statesman (died 1691)
Deaths[edit]
- 14 September – John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (born 1607)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "1638, British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ Display captions at house, October 2016.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.