1635 in England

Events from the year 1635 in England.

← 1634 1633 1632 1635 in England → 1636 1637 1638
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See also:	Other events of 1635

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles I
• Secretary of State – Sir John Coke
• Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

Events

• April – Construction is completed on the Jacobean mansion Aston Hall
• 4 August – second writ for ship money is issued, extending the payments to inland towns.
• Peter Paul Rubens paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
• First secondary school established in the North American colonies, the English High and Latin School at Boston.
• First General Post Office opens to the public, at Bishopsgate, London.
• English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.

Literature

• The stage tragedy Hannibal and Scipio by Thomas Nabbes is first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men

Births

• 18 July – Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)
• 22 November – Francis Willughby, biologist (died 1672)
• 28 December – Princess Elizabeth of England (died 1650)
• 31 December – Sir Robert Southwell, diplomat and politician (died 1702)
• Approximate date – Catherine Pegge, royal mistress

Deaths

• 12 January – Anne Cornwallis, benefactor (born 1590)
• March – Thomas Randolph, poet (born 1605)
• 27 March – Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)
• 25 November – John Hall, physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)