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Robert HARRISON

Male 1622 - 1644  (21 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1622 
  • 1622: First English newspaper appeared - "Weekly News"
1624 
  • 1624: Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
  • 1624: Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
1625 
  • 1625: The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
  • 27 Mar 1625: Death of King James VI & I
1628 
  • 1 Mar 1628: Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
1629 
  • 10 Mar 1629: Parliament dissolved by King Charles I – did not meet for another 11 yea
1633 
  • Jun 1633: Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
1635 
  • 1635: Letter Office of England & Scotland started
  • 1635: Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
1636 
  • 1636: Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
1638 
  • 1638: King Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason – forced Scots to choose between their church and the King – a "Covenant", swearing to resist these changes to the death, was signed in Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh and was accepted by hundreds of thousands of Scots (revival of Presbyterian Church)
10 1639 
  • 1639: Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
11 1640 
  • 3 Nov 1640: Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish invasion
12 1641 
  • 1641: Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
  • 1641: Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
  • 23 Oct 1641: 50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
13 1642 
  • 1642: The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
  • 1642: English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
  • 22 Aug 1642: Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham – First Civil War in England (to 1649)
  • 13 Nov 1642: Battle of Turnham Green – Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
  • 24 Nov 1642: Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
  • 18 Dec 1642: Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
14 1643 
  • 13 Dec 1643: Battle of Alton – victory for Parliamentarians – Sir Richard Bolle killed in St Lawrence's church
15 1644 
  • 29 Jun 1644: Battle of Cropredy Bridge – Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
  • 2 Jul 1644: Battle of Marston Moor, near York – Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists