From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of events
Events from the year 1647 in England
Incumbents [ edit ] 30 January – Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.[1] Thomas Fairfax meets the King beyond Nottingham and escorts him to Holdenby House in Northamptonshire.
March – folk dancing and bear-baiting banned.[1]
10 March – set aside by Parliament as a day of public humiliation under terms of February's "An Ordinance, concerning the growth and spreading of Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies, and for setting apart a day of Publike Humiliation, to seeke Gods assistance for the suppressing and preventing the same."[2]
15 March – Harlech surrenders; the last Royalist castle to do so.[1]
18 May – the House of Commons decides to disband the Army.[3]
4 June – King Charles I taken to Newmarket as a prisoner of the New Model Army .[3]
June – the Long Parliament passes an ordinance confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas , Easter and Whitsun , though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday .[4]
15 July – the King is allowed (at the request of Fairfax) to meet his children (James, Duke of York , Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester , and Princess Elizabeth ) for what will be the last time, at the Greyhound Inn, Maidenhead .[5]
2 August – the King rejects the proposals set out in the Heads of Proposals [3]
7 August – Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army, an attempt by Presbyterian MPs to raise the City of London having been unsuccessful.[3]
8 August – Irish Confederate Wars : An English Parliamentary army defeats the Irish Confederate 's Leinster army.[3]
20 August – Parliament passes the Null and Void Ordinance .[6]
October – the Levellers publish their manifesto Agreement of the People [3]
28 October–11 November – Putney Debates between the New Model Army and Levellers concerning a new national constitution .[6]
11 November – the King attempts to escape captivity but is captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight .[3]
15 November – Corkbush Field mutiny : two regiments of the New Model Army threaten to mutiny.[6]
24 December – Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects.[3]
25 December – rioting in Canterbury and elsewhere over the celebration of Christmas .[7]
26 December – the King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promises to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.[8] Undated [ edit ] 29 January – Francis Meres , writer (born 1565)
12 March – Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet , Member of Parliament (born 1591)
29 March – Charls Butler , beekeeper and philologist (born 1560)
20 April – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet , politician (born 1593)
24 May – Ferdinando Gorges , colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)
9 June – Leonard Calvert , colonial governor (born 1606; died in Maryland)
12 June – Thomas Farnaby , grammarian (born c. 1575)
7 July – Thomas Hooker , religious and colonial leader (born 1586)
1 August – Degory Wheare , historian (born 1573)
12 August – Matthew Hopkins , "witchfinder general" (born c. 1620)
24 August – Nicholas Stone , sculptor and architect (born 1586)
8 October – Thomas Habington , antiquarian (born 1550)
c. 8 October – Lady Anne Stanley , noblewoman, possible heiress to the throne (born 1580)
11 December – John Saltmarsh , chaplain, radical preacher (born c 1610)
Elizabeth Raleigh , widow of Walter Raleigh (born 1565)References [ edit ]
^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 182–183. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2 ^ February 1647: An Ordinance, concerning the growth and spreading of Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies, and for setting apart a day of Publike Humiliation, to seeke Gods assistance for the suppressing and preventing the same . ^ a b c d e f g h i Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History 261–262 . ISBN 0-304-35730-8 ^ "Christmas abolished! - Why did Cromwell abolish Christmas?" . Oliver Cromwell . The Cromwell Association. 2001–2005. Retrieved 2011-10-23 .^ Godwin, William (1826). History of the Commonwealth of England: To the death of Charles I . Retrieved 2017-07-05 .^ a b c "1647, British Civil Wars" . Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-16 .^ Durston, Chris (December 1985). "Lords of misrule: The Puritan war on Christmas 1642–60" . History Today 35 (12): 7–14. Retrieved 2011-12-23 . ^ "The Engagement, 1648, British Civil Wars" . Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-16 .
