1650 in England

1650 Events from the year 1650 in England, second year of the Third English Civil War. Incumbents May 2026 Events 1 May – claimant King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters. 10 May – Commonwealth (Adultery) Act (1650) imposes the death penalty for incest, and for adultery, that is defined as sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man other than her husband. Both partners would be liable for death sentence in such a case, although the courts are reluctant to impose the ultimate penalty.Lay Paul Providence Lost London Head of Zeus 2021 2020 9781781853368 176 If a man (married or unmarried) has sex with an unmarried woman (including a widow), that would be fornication, punishable only by three months for first offenders, applicable to both partners.J. P. Kenyon The Interregnum, 1649–1660 J. P. Kenyon Kenyon, J. P. The Stuart Constitution Cambridge University Press 1969 330 In the history of adultery in English law, this represents the only time since the twelfth century when adultery has been outlawed in secular statute law.Jeremy D. Weinstein https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol38/iss1/3 Adultery, Law and the State: A History Hastings Law Journal 38 1 1986 195–238 17 May – a quarter of the New Model Army at the Siege of Clonmel in Ireland is trapped and killed. 26 May – Oliver Cromwell leaves Ireland (following the Siege of Clonmel), occasioning Andrew Marvell's An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland. 23 June – Charles arrives in Scotland (at Garmouth) where he signs the Covenant.http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1650.htm 1650, British Civil Wars 2007-09-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20071012050419/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1650.htm 12 October 2007 13 August – Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards. 3 September – Oliver Cromwell is victorious over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar, opening the Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652). 19 September – Treaty of Hartford: the English Connecticut Colony and the Dutch Republic's colony of New Netherland establish their frontiers in North America.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/263 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 263–264 29 September – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters, a form of employment exchange, in Threadneedle Street, London. 30 October – the Religious Society of Friends acquires the nickname "Quakers" when the judge at George Fox's blasphemy trial says that they "tremble at the word of the Lord".Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 14 December – domestic servant Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle for infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1665.A Scholler in Oxford Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene; whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject Oxford printed by Leonard Lichfield for Tho. Robinson 1651 Includes Latin verses by Christopher Wren.10.1136/bmj.285.6357.1792 6816370 1500297 Hughes J. Trevor Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Green: An Oxford Case Of Resuscitation In The Seventeenth Century 29509089 British Medical Journal 285 6357 1982 1792–1793 Undated Cornelius Vermuyden completes excavation of the New Bedford River as part of the drainage of The Fens. William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica. Puritans chop down the original Glastonbury Thorn. Births 2 February (?) – Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress (died 1687) 24 March – Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, bishop (died 1721) 18 April – Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1689) 20 April – William Bedloe, informer (died 1680) 1 May (bapt.) – John Radcliffe, physician (died 1714) 26 May – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (died 1722) 14 September – Theophilus Oglethorpe, soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1702) 23 September – Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726) 20 October – Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, courtier (died 1717) 7 November – John Robinson, diplomat (died 1723) November – Cloudesley Shovell, admiral (died 1707) 14 November – King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702) 1 December (bapt.) – William Talman, architect (died 1719) Undated George Rooke, admiral (died 1709) Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, statesman (died 1721) Approximate date Solomon de Medina, French-born army contractor (died 1720) Charlotte Paston, Countess of Yarmouth, née FitzRoy, noblewoman, illegitimate daughter of Charles II (died 1684) Deaths February – Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1586) 9 March – Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers, courtier (born 1581) 18 April – Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (born 1602) 9 July (burial) – Alice Barnham, wife of Francis Bacon (born 1592) 25 August – Richard Crashaw, poet (born c. 1613) 8 September – Princess Elizabeth of England, daughter of Charles I (born 1635) 13 November – Thomas May, poet and historian (born 1595) 13 December – Phineas Fletcher, poet (born 1582) 25 December – Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School and Royalist, hanged Probable date – Isaac Ewer, soldier and regicide (year of birth unknown) References 1650 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England