1651 in England

1651 in England

Events from the year 1651 which occurred in the Commonwealth of England.

Incumbents

* Commonwealth of England

Events

* 20 July - English Civil War: At the Battle of Inverkeithing in Scotland, the English Parliament's New Model Army defeats a Scottish army local to Charles II.
* 25 August - English Civil War: At the Battle of Wigan Lane Royalist troops under James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby defeated by the New Model Army under Robert Lilburne.
* 3 September - English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
* October- A diplomatic team headed by Oliver St John went to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the English Commonwealth and the Dutch Republic.
* 15 October - Charles II escapes to France.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 185-186|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]

Undated

* First coffee house in England opens, in Oxford.
* William Harvey describes organ formation in the developing embryo in "De Generatione".
* William Gilbert's "A New Philosophy of Our Sublunar World" is published posthumously. It theorises that the fixed stars are not all the same distance from Earth, and that the force of magnetism holds the planets in orbit around the Sun.

Publications

* Thomas Hobbes publishes his major political work "Leviathan". [cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 ]

Births

* 3 January - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, politician (d. 1694)
* 4 March - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1716)

Deaths

* 26 November - Henry Ireton, Civil War leader (b. 1611)

References

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