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6 September – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Elba, a Dutch naval victory. 8 October – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames; the Dutch are forced to withdraw.
1652 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1652nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 652nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1652, the ...
Van Riebeeck's party of three vessels landed at the cape on 6 April 1652. The Cape was under Dutch rule from 1652 to 1795 and again from 1803 to 1806. [10] The group quickly erected shelters and laid out vegetable gardens and orchards, and are preserved in the Company's Garden. Water from the Fresh River, which descended from Table Mountain ...
5 April – Adam Loftus, Catholic archbishop (born c. 1533) 6 April – John Stow, historian and antiquarian (born 1525) 11 September – Sir Thomas Tresham, politician (born 1550) 8 November – Robert Catesby, conspirator (born 1573) December – Francis Tresham, conspirator (born 1567) 29 December – John Davis, explorer (born 1550) 1606 30 ...
Long serves only six days before dying on 16 March. Chute remains Speaker but himself dies on 14 April and is replaced by Thomas Bampfield. 6 April – Council of Officers petitions Parliament to oppose Royalists and make up arrears of army pay. [3] 18 April – Cromwell dissolves the Council of Officers and orders its members to leave London. [3]
The Mercat Cross on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, where the Tender of Union was proclaimed in February 1652. Six days after the victory at Worcester, a committee of the English Rump parliament was established with the aim of drafting a bill that would declare "the right of the Commonwealth to so much of Scotland as is now under [its] force".
Since 1649 until the Protectorate, England, Ireland and later Scotland had been governed as a republic by the Council of State and the Rump Parliament.The Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth, which established England, together with "all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging", as a republic, had been passed on 19 May 1649, following the trial and execution of Charles I in ...
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