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{{Year in England|1652}}Events from the year 1652 in England. Incumbents- Parliament – First Commonwealth Rump
Events- 19 May – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Goodwin Sands fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.[1]
- 13 June – George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in Westmorland, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- 30 June – First Anglo-Dutch War: Britain formally declares war on the Netherlands.[2]
- 26 August – First Anglo-Dutch War: An English fleet attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter at the Battle of Plymouth; the Dutch escape.
- 6 September – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Elba.
- 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.
- 30 November – First Anglo-Dutch War: English under Blake defeated by Dutch under Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness.[2]
- Royal Navy Dockyard established at Harwich.
- Probable date – second coffeehouse in England opened, in London, by Pasqua Rosée.
Publications- Thomas Nicols' Lapidary, or, the history of pretious stones, the first work in English on gemstones.[3]
Births- 3 March – Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)
- John Radcliffe, physician (died 1714)
Deaths- 21 June – Inigo Jones, architect (born 1573)
- 23 August – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, royalist politician (born 1600)
- September – Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, royalist commander (born 1596)
- 8 October – John Greaves, mathematician and antiquarian (born 1602)
References1. ^{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|authorlink=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=185–186|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Nicols|first=Thomas|year=1652|title=Lapidary or the History of Pretious Stones|publisher=Thomas Buck|location=Cambridge|url=http://www.farlang.com/gemstones/nicols-history-gemstones/page_001}}
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