1637 in England

Events from the year 1637 in England.

Incumbents

18 February – Eighty Years' War: Battle off Lizard Point: off the coast of Cornwall, a Spanish fleet intercepts an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
30 April – King Charles issues a proclamation attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies.^[1]
27 June – English merchants led by captain John Weddell establish the first trading settlement at Canton.^[1]
30 June – William Prynne is branded as a seditious libeller, and sentenced to pillorying and mutilation.^[2]
13 October – First-rate ship of the line HMS Sovereign of the Seas is launched at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £65,586, adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings.
Member of Parliament John Hampden continues to refuse to pay ship money although a 7-5 majority verdict among a group of judges supports its legality.^[2]

March – Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II (died 1671)
17 March – Princess Anne (died 1640)
27 August – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of Maryland (died 1715)
6 December – Edmund Andros, colonial administrator (died 1714)

^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 253–257. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.