1649 in England
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Events from the year 1649 in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles I (to 30 January); Interregnum
Events
- 3 January – An explosion of several barrels of gunpowder in Tower Street, London kills 67 people and destroys 60 houses.[1][2]
- 20 to 27 January – Trial and conviction of King Charles I by a High Court of Justice convened in Westminster Hall.[3]
- 30 January
- King Charles I beheaded outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall.[4]
- The Commonwealth of England, a republican form of government comprising members of the Rump Parliament, replaces the monarchy as the form of government of England and later of Scotland and Ireland.
- Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At this time none of the three Kingdoms have recognised him as ruler.
- 9 February – Eikon Basilike: the Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, purporting to be the spiritual autobiography of Charles I, is published.
- 23 February – Ships of the Parliamentary navy are to fly the flag of England.[5]
- 17 March – The Rump Parliament formally abolishes the English monarchy by passing an act abolishing the kingship.[3]
- 19 March – The House of Commons passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".[3]
- March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a General at Sea of the English fleet.[6]
- 2 May – Lawyer and regicide Sir Isaac Dorislaus, while in The Hague to negotiate an alliance with the Dutch Republic, is murdered by royalist exiles.[7]
- 17 May – Banbury mutiny ends – leaders of the Leveller mutineers in the New Model Army are hanged.
- 19 May – An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth is passed by the Rump Parliament.
- 22 May–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.
- August – The Diggers abandon their last major colony, at St. George's Hill, Weybridge.
- 15 August – Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
- 3–11 September – Siege of Drogheda in Ireland: Cromwell's New Model Army massacres the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.[4]
- 2–11 October – Sack of Wexford in Ireland: New Model Army massacres the Irish Catholic Confederation garrison.
- October – John Milton's Eikonoklastes: in Answer to a Book Intitl'd Eikon Basilike, a defence of the execution of Charles I, is published.
Births
- 23 February (bapt.) – John Blow, composer and organist (died 1708)
- 9 April – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1685)
- 15 September – Titus Oates, minister and plotter (died 1705)
Deaths
- 30 January – King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (executed) (born 1600)
- 9 March
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (executed) (born 1606)
- Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, soldier (executed) (born 1590)
- 26 March – John Winthrop First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (born c. 1587)
- 11 July – Susanna Hall, daughter and heir of William Shakespeare (born 1583)
- 6 September – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, explorer and geographer (born 1574)
- 15 September – John Floyd, Jesuit preacher (born 1572)
References
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