Events from the year1652 inEngland.

• 10 April –Prudence Lee becomes the lastwoman in England burned alive at the stake formariticide, atSmithfield, London^[1] (subsequent recipients of the sentence being in practice strangled before burning).
• 19 May –First Anglo-Dutch War:Battle of Dover fought inconclusively off Dover between Lt.-AdmiralMaarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded byRobert Blake and the other byNehemiah Bourne.^[2]
• 13 June –George Fox preaches to a large crowd onFirbank Fell inWestmorland, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
• 30 June – First Anglo-Dutch War: Britain formally declares war on theDutch Republic (United Provinces of the Netherlands).^[3]
• 26 August – First Anglo-Dutch War: An English fleet attacks an outward-bound Dutch convoy of the escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-CommodoreMichiel de Ruyter at theBattle of Plymouth; the Dutch escape.
• 6 September – First Anglo-Dutch War:Battle of Elba, a Dutch naval victory.
• 8 October – First Anglo-Dutch War:Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in theNorth Sea about 30 km from the mouth of theriver Thames; the Dutch are forced to withdraw.
• 30 November – First Anglo-Dutch War: English under Blake defeated by Dutch under Tromp at theBattle of Dungeness.^[3]
• Royal Navy Dockyard established atHarwich.
• Probable date – secondcoffeehouse in England opened, in London, byPasqua Rosée.

• Thomas Nicols'Lapidary, or, the history of pretious stones, the first work inEnglish ongemstones.^[4]

• 2 January –Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (died 1733)
• 13 January –Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, politician (died 1694)
• 16 January –Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (died 1699)
• 3 March –Thomas Otway, dramatist (died 1685)
• 13 April –Thomas Ward, religious writer, Catholic convert (died 1708)
• 1 May –John King, churchman (died 1732)
• 7 May –Edward Northey, barrister and politician (died 1723)
• 3 August –Samuel Western, politician (died 1699)
• 11 October –Nathaniel Higginson, politician (died 1708)
• 3 November –William Lowndes, politician (died 1724)
• 20 December –Samuel Bradford, bishop and politician (died 1731)

• 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)
• Eleanor Davies, prophet (born 1590)
• James Hind, highwayman, executed (born 1616)

• 1652 in England
• Years of the 17th century in England

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