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Events relating to england
John Bunyan is convicted of unlicensed preaching and spends the next eleven years in Bedford Gaol
The body of Oliver Cromwell is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn
The Cavalier Parliament begins to pass a series of acts, known as the Clarendon Code, containing punitive measures against Presbyterians
British chemist Robert Boyle defines the inverse relationship between pressure and volume in any gas (subsequently known as Boyle's Law)
The Act of Uniformity demands that Anglican clergy accept all the Thirty-Nine Articles, costing many their livings
An academy of English scientists is given a royal charter by Charles II and becomes the Royal Society
The Conventicle Act restricts worship in England to Anglican churches if more than a few people are present
The first recorded attempt at blood transfusion, at the Royal Society in London, proves that the idea is feasible
The Five Mile Act prevents Nonconformist ministers in England from coming closer than five miles to any town where they have ministered
The Great Plague of London causes as many as 7000 deaths in a week and perhaps a total of 100,000 by the end of the year
Isaac Newton spends a creative period in Lincolnshire, at home in Woolsthorpe Manor, apples or no apples
The Great Fire of London rages for four days, destroying 13,200 houses and 81 churches
Michiel de Ruyter sails up the Thames to destroy much of the English fleet at its base in the Medway
Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton just £10
Wood-carver Grinling Gibbons arrives from Holland to begin an immensely successful career in England
In the treaty of Breda, England keeps New Amsterdam and New Netherland, and Holland keeps the English-held territory of Surinam
England's East India Company is granted a lease on Bombay by Charles II, who has received it from his Portuguese bride
The duke of York, heir to the English and Scottish thrones, is secretly received into the Roman Catholic church
Samuel Pepys ends his diary, after only writing it for nine years
The Dutch develop a new pattern of middle-class urban life and architecture, later copied in England
Elizabeth Tollemache, now a widow and owner of Ham House, marries the Earl (later Duke) of Lauderdale, member of the Cabal that ruled England under Charles II
Charles II issues a Declaration of Indulgence, suspending the restrictions on Catholics and Nonconformists
Isaac Newton's experiments with the prism demonstrate the link between wavelength and colour in light
Parliament in England passes a Test Act excluding Catholics and Nonconformists from public office
The double-hung sash window is introduced in England and soon spreads to Holland
