1635 in England
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Events from the year 1635 in England.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Charles I
- Secretary of State – Sir John Coke
- Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
Events
[edit]- April – Construction is completed on the Jacobean mansion Aston Hall
- 4 August – second writ for ship money is issued, extending the payments to inland towns.
- Peter Paul Rubens paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
- First secondary school established in the North American colonies, the English High and Latin School at Boston.
- First General Post Office opens to the public, at Bishopsgate, London.
- English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.
Literature
[edit]- The stage tragedy Hannibal and Scipio by Thomas Nabbes is first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men
Births
[edit]- 18 July – Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)
- 22 November – Francis Willughby, biologist (died 1672)
- 28 December – Princess Elizabeth of England (died 1650)
- 31 December – Sir Robert Southwell, diplomat and politician (died 1702)
- Approximate date – Catherine Pegge, royal mistress
Deaths
[edit]- 12 January – Anne Cornwallis, benefactor (born 1590)
- March – Thomas Randolph, poet (born 1605)
- 27 March – Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)
- 25 November – John Hall, physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)