1634 in England
Events from the year 1634 in England.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Charles I
- Secretary of State – Sir John Coke
- Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
Events
- March – Leonard Calvert leads the first group of settlers to the new English colony of Maryland in North America
- 5 May – A royal proclamation confines flying of the Union Flag to the king's ships; English merchant vessels are to fly the flag of England.
- 7 May – William Prynne is sentenced by the Star Chamber to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment, pillorying and the loss of part of his ears when his Histriomastix is viewed as an attack on King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria
- 20 October – King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navy
Undated
- Cornelius Vermuyden begins the draining of The Fens to reclaim farmland
- First Newmarket Gold Cup horse race
- Thomas Johnson begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants.
- The position of Keeper of the Archives is established at the University of Oxford
- The English establish a settlement at Cochin on the Malabar Coast
Literature
- 22 January – William Davenant's comedy The Wits first performed by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre
- John Ford's history play Perkin Warbeck published.
Births
- 1 January – Fleetwood Sheppard, poet
- 7 February – Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin, diplomat and politician
- 23 March – Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford, Member of Parliament
- 25 March – George Bull, bishop of St Davids and theologian
- 28 March – Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament
- 8 April – Joseph Alleine, nonconformist pastor, author
- 14 April – Sir John Reresby, 2nd Baronet, politician and diarist
- 25 April – Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, politician
- 4 May – Lady Katherine Ferrers, aristocrat and heiress
- 7 May – Richard Legh, politician
- 14 June – Nathaniel Bond, politician
- 23 July – Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet, politician
- 4 September – Robert South, churchman known for combative preaching
- 6 September – Thomas Tryon, hatmaker
- 7 November – Francis Winnington, Solicitor-General
- 23 November – Paulet St John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke, politician
- 25 November – Richard Slater, politician
- Unknown – Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, diplomat
Deaths
- 23 March – Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea, noblewoman
- 12 May – George Chapman, author
- 25 June – John Marston, dramatist
- 9 August – William Noy, jurist
- 3 September – Edward Coke, colonial entrepreneur and jurist
- 25 December – Lettice Knollys, noblewoman