1647 in England

Events from the year 1647 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

Monarch - King Charles I of England

Events

* 30 January - Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 182-183|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* March - Folk dancing and bear-baiting banned.
* 15 March - Harlech surrenders; the last Royalist castle to do so.
* 18 May - The House of Commons decides to disband the Army.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=261–262]
* 4 June - King Charles I taken to Newmarket as a prisoner of the New Model Army.
* 2 August - The King rejects the proposals set out in the "Heads of Proposals".
* 7 August - Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army.
* 8 August - Irish Confederate Wars: An English Parliamentary army defeats the Irish Confederate's Leinster army.
* 20 August - Parliament passes the Null and Void Ordinance.cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1647.htm|title=1647, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-16]
* October - The Levellers publish their manifesto "Agreement of the People".
* 28 October - the Putney Debates between the New Model Army and the Levellers.
* 11 November - The King attempts to escape captivity but is captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.
* 15 November - Corkbush Field mutiny: two regiments of the New Model Army threaten to mutiny.
* 24 December - Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects.
* 26 December - The King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promised to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance. [cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/engager.htm|title=The Engagement, 1648, British Civil Wars|accessdate=2007-09-16]

Undated

* Anglican professors are sacked at the University of Oxford.

Births

* 1 April - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet (died 1680)
* 3 April - Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, statesman (died 1709)
* 2 July - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, privy councillor (died 1730)
* "date unknown" - Henry Aldrich, theologian and philosopher (died 1710)

Deaths

* 29 January - Francis Meres, writer (born 1565)
* 12 March - Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1591)
* 20 April - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1593)
* 12 June - Thomas Farnaby, grammarian (born c.1575)
* 7 July - Thomas Hooker, religious and colonial leader (born 1586)
* August - Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder-general (year of birth unknown)
* 24 August - Nicholas Stone, sculptor and architect (born 1586)
* October - Lady Anne Stanley, heir to the throne (born 1580)
* Thomas Abington, antiquarian (born 1550)
* Leonard Calvert, colonial governor (born 1606)
* Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565)
* Elizabeth Raleigh, wife of Walter Raleigh (born 1565)
* John Saltmarsh, clergyman (year of birth unknown)
* Degory Wheare, academic (born 1573)

References

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