Events from the year 1657 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 26 January â William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1737)
- 29 January â Francis Moore, astrologer (died 1715)
- 24 February â Clopton Havers, physician (died 1702)
- 15 March â Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet, aristocrat and diarist (died 1681)
- 10 June â James Craggs the Elder, politician (died 1721)
- 26 November â William Derham, minister and writer (died 1735)
- 14 December â Edmund Dunch, Member of Parliament (died 1719)
- approx. date
- Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth, Royal bastard (died on active service 1680)
- Elizabeth Villiers, Royal mistress (died 1733)
Deaths
- 13 February â Miles Sindercombe, failed assassin of Oliver Cromwell (year of birth unknown) (suicide by poisoning while awaiting execution)
- ? April â Richard Lovelace, Cavalier poet (born 1617)
- May â George Radcliffe, politician (born 1599)
- 3 June â William Harvey, physician (born 1578)
- 17 August â Robert Blake, admiral (born 1598)
- 29 August â John Lilburne, dissenter (born c. 1614)
- November â John French, physician and chemist (born c. 1616)
- 20 November â Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1600)
- 5 December â drowned in shipwreck on the Goodwin Sands:
- Sir John Reynolds, soldier (born 1625)
- Major Francis White, soldier (year of birth unknown)
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