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1654
Events from the year 1654 in England.
Incumbents
Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell
Events
20 March – establishment of Commission of Triers which will fill empty Anglican benefices with Puritan ministers.David Plant 1654 http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1654.htm British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1638-60 2010-04-18 2012-07-10 2012-02-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20120218161155/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1654.htm dead
5 April – signing of the Treaty of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch War, and the Dutch agree to observe the Navigation Acts.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 266
11 April – Anglo-Swedish alliance: A commercial treaty between England and Sweden is signed.
12 April – Oliver Cromwell creates a union between England and Scotland, with Scottish representation in the Parliament of England.
10 July – Peter Vowell and John Gerard are executed in London for plotting to assassinate Cromwell.
August – Cromwell launches the 'Western Design', an expedition to the Caribbean to counter Spanish commercial interests, effectively beginning the Anglo-Spanish War (which will last until after the Restoration in 1660).Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 185–186 0-7126-5616-2 The main fleet leaves Portsmouth on 25 December.
3 September – First Protectorate Parliament assembles.
Births
10 January – Joshua Barnes, scholar (died 1712)
22 January – Richard Blackmore, physician and writer (died 1729)
22 February – Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albemarle (died 1734)
27 April – Charles Blount, deist (died 1693)
23 June – Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, politician (died 1717)
John Bellers, educationist (died 1725)
Deaths
10 January – Nicholas Culpeper, astrologer (born 1616)
8 February – John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury (born 1601)
19 February – Edmund Chilmead, writer (born 1610)
3 June – Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (born 1585)
27 June– Thomas Gataker, clergy (born 1574)
28 June – John Southworth, martyr (born 1592)
10 July – Peter Vowell, Royalist conspirator (year of birth unknown)
August – Roger Dodsworth, antiquary (born 1585)
30 November
William Habington, poet (born 1605)
John Selden, lawyer (born 1584)
6 December (bur.) – Sir William Brockman, military leader and politician (born 1595)
References
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