Incumbents

Events

20 March – establishment of Commission of Triers which will fill empty Anglican benefices with Puritan ministers.^[1]^[2]
5 April – signing of the Treaty of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch War, and the Dutch agree to observe the Navigation Acts.^[3]
11 April – Anglo-Swedish alliance: A commercial treaty between England and Sweden is signed.^[3]
12 April – Oliver Cromwell creates a union between England and Scotland, with Scottish representation in the Parliament of England.^[3]
10 July – Peter Vowell and John Gerard are executed in London for plotting to assassinate Cromwell.
August – Cromwell launches the 'Western Design', an expedition to the Caribbean to counter Spanish commercial interests, effectively beginning the Anglo-Spanish War (which will last until after the Restoration in 1660).^[1] The main fleet leaves Portsmouth on 25 December.
3 September – First Protectorate Parliament assembles.^[3]

10 January – Nicholas Culpeper, astrologer (born 1616)
8 February – John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury (born 1601)
19 February – Edmund Chilmead, writer (born 1610)
3 June – Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (born 1585)
27 June– Thomas Gataker, clergy (born 1574)
28 June – John Southworth, martyr (born 1592)
10 July – Peter Vowell, Royalist conspirator (year of birth unknown)
August – Roger Dodsworth, antiquary (born 1585)
30 November
- William Habington, poet (born 1605)
- John Selden, lawyer (born 1584)
6 December (bur.) – Sir William Brockman, military leader and politician (born 1595)

^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 185–186. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Plant, David (2010-04-18). "1654". British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1638-60. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 266. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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