1664 in England

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Events from the year 1664 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

• 12 March - Province of New Jersey becomes an English colony in North America.
• 5 April - Passing of the Triennial Parliaments Act.^[1]
• May - Parliament passes the Conventicle Act preventing non-conformist groups of more than five from assembling.^[1]
• 18 August - England annexes the New Netherland colony in North America, renaming it the Province of New York (after James, Duke of York).^[1]
• 27 September - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls.^[2]
• 28 October - The "Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of foot" is formed in London, origin of the Royal Marines.

Undated

• Robert Holmes's second African expedition to the Guinea coast captures Dutch forts and ships.
• Construction begins of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford as designed by Christopher Wren.^[1]
• Francis Child enters the London goldsmith's business which, as the private banking house of Child & Co., will continue into the 21st century.^[3]

Births

• 24 January (bapt.) - John Vanbrugh, playwright and architect (died 1726)
• 28 February - Thomas Newcomen, inventor (died 1729)
• 3 July - James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, politician (died 1736)
• 21 July - Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat (died 1721)
• 3 September - Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, peer and politician (died 1723)
• 5 September - Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, daughter of Charles II (died 1718)
• 18 October - George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, (died 1727)
• 9 November - Henry Wharton, writer (died 1695)
• probable - William Mountfort, actor (died 1692)
• possible - Daniel Purcell, composer (died 1717)

Deaths

• 20 January - Isaac Ambrose, diarist (born 1604)
• February - John Hoskins, painter (year of birth unknown)
• 7 May - John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet, noble (born 1608)
• 22 June - Katherine Philips, poet (born 1631)
• August - John Lisle, Regicide of Charles I (born 1610)
• 8 October - John Boys, Royalist (born 1607)
• Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet, Parliamentary supporter in the English Civil War (year of birth unknown)
• Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby, Royalist (born 1599)
• Accepted Frewen, Archbishop (born 1588)
• John Goodyer, botanist (born 1592)
• John Hutchinson, Roundhead (born 1615)
• Richard Overton, Leveller (born 1599)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 271. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. Button, Henry G. (1976). The Guinness Book of the Business World. Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. p. 107. ISBN 0-900424-32-X.

See also