1637 in England

1637 Events from the year 1637 in England. Incumbents Monarch – Charles I Secretary of State – Sir John Coke Events 18 February – Eighty Years' War: Battle off Lizard Point: off the coast of Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepts an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. 30 April – King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 177–178 0-7126-5616-2 27 June – English merchants led by captain John Weddell establish the first trading settlement at Canton. 30 June – William Prynne is branded as a seditious libeller, and sentenced to pillorying and mutilation.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 253–257 13 October – First-rate ship of the line English ship Sovereign of the Seas 2 is launched at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £65,586, adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings. Member of Parliament John Hampden continues to refuse to pay ship money although a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality. Births March – Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II (died 1671) 17 March – Princess Anne (died 1640) 27 August – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of Maryland (died 1715) 6 December – Edmund Andros, colonial administrator (died 1714) Deaths 6 August – Ben Jonson, writer (born 1572) 8 September – Robert Fludd, mystic (born 1574) 4 December – Nicholas Ferrar, trader (born 1592) References 1637 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England