1677 in England

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Events from the year 1677 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Charles II

Events

• 16 February - Politicians the Earl of Shaftesbury, Duke of Buckingham, Lord Wharton and the Earl of Salisbury are arrested and sent to the Tower of London.^[1]
• February - Nathaniel Lee's blank verse tragedy The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great, is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Mrs Charlotte Melmoth as Roxana.^[2]
• 16 April - Parliament passes the Statute of Frauds.
• 4 November - William of Orange marries Princess Mary of York at St James's Palace.^[1]
• 30 December - William Sancroft nominated by the King as Archbishop of Canterbury.^[3]

Undated

• The Baptist Confession of Faith is first published in London.
• The Monument to the Great Fire of London, designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke is completed.
• Chapel of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, designed by Wren.
• Elias Ashmole gifts the collection that begins the Ashmolean Museum to the University of Oxford.
• Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.
• The John Roan School is established in Greenwich, London.
• Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the dinosaur Megalosaurus.
• Fabian Stedman publishes Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing.

Births

• 17 September - Stephen Hales, physiologist, chemist and inventor (died 1761)
• 17 November - Sir Francis Boynton, Member of Parliament (died 1739)
• Whitmore Acton, Member of Parliament (died 1732)
• Elizabeth Wardlaw, writer (died 1727)

Deaths

• 4 May - Isaac Barrow, mathematician (born 1630)
• 20 May - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, statesman (born 1612)
• August - Matthew Locke, composer (born 1621)
• 27 August - Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset, Earl (born 1622)
• 11 September - James Harrington, political philosopher (born 1611)
• 14 October - Francis Glisson, physician, anatomist and writer (born 1597)
• 2 November - Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Earl (born 1595)
• Ralph Bankes, Member of Parliament (born 1631)
• Thomas Manton, theologian (born 1620)
• Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1598)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 278. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Birley, Robert (1962). Sunk without Trace: some forgotten masterpieces reconsidered. London: Rupert Hart-Davis.
3. Beddard, R. A. P. J. (2004). "Sancroft, William (1617–1693)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24610. Retrieved 2012-06-01. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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