1633 in England

Events from the year 1633 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles I
• Secretary of State – Sir John Coke
• Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

Events

• 13 February – Fire engines are used for the first time in England to control and extinguish a fire that breaks out at London Bridge, but not before 43 houses are destroyed.
• May – King Charles revives medieval forest laws to raise funds from fines.
• 1 August – Exeter School is founded in Devon.
• 6 August – William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 18 October – Charles I reissues the Declaration of Sports, which had originated during his father's reign, listing the sports and recreations permitted on Sundays and other holy days.
• St Paul's, Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones in 1631 overlooking his piazza, opens to worship, the first wholly new parish church built in London since the English Reformation.
• English colonists settle what will become the town of Hingham, Massachusetts.

Literature

• John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore published.
• Earliest surviving edition of the Christopher Marlowe play The Jew of Malta published, around 40 years after its first performance.
• John Donne's collected Poems published posthumously.

Births

• 23 February – Samuel Pepys, civil servant and diarist (died 1703)
• 26 March (bapt.) – Mary Beale, portrait painter (died 1699)
• 14 October – King James II of England (died 1701)
• 11 November – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, writer and statesman (died 1695)
• 3 December (bapt.) – Sir Anthony Deane, naval architect and politician (died 1721)
• Approximate date
• Thomas Armstrong, politician (executed 1684)
• Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1708)

Deaths

• 17 February – Frances Walsingham, noblewoman (born 1567)
• 1 March – George Herbert, poet and orator (born 1593)
• 5 August – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1562)
• 10 August – Anthony Munday, writer (born 1553)
• 14 November – William Ames, philosopher (born 1576)

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