1634 in England

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

• March – Leonard Calvert leads the first group of settlers to the new English colony of Maryland in North America • 5 May – A royal proclamation confines flying of the Union Flag (the first recorded reference to it by this name) to the king's ships; English merchant vessels are to fly the flag of England. • 7 May – William Prynne is sentenced by the Star Chamber to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment, pillorying and the loss of part of his ears when his Histriomastix is viewed as an attack on King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria • 20 October – King Charles I issues writs to raise ship money from coastal ports to finance the Royal Navy Undated • Cornelius Vermuyden begins the draining of The Fens to reclaim farmland • First Newmarket Gold Cup horse race • Thomas Johnson begins publishing Mercurius Botanicus, including a list of indigenous British plants. • The position of Keeper of the Archives is established at the University of Oxford • The English establish a settlement at Cochin (modern-day Kochi) on the Malabar Coast ==Literature==

• 22 January – William Davenant's comedy The Wits first performed by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre • John Ford's history play Perkin Warbeck published. ==Births==

• 1 January – Fleetwood Sheppard, poet (died 1698) • 7 February – Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin, diplomat and politician (died 1682) • 23 March – Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford, Member of Parliament (died 1708) • 25 March – George Bull, bishop of St Davids and theologian (died 1710) • 28 March – Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1697) • 8 April – Joseph Alleine, nonconformist pastor, author (died 1668) • 14 April – Sir John Reresby, 2nd Baronet, politician and diarist (died 1689) • 25 April – Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, politician (died 1683) • 4 May – Lady Katherine Ferrers, aristocrat and heiress (died 1660) • 7 May – Richard Legh, politician (died 1687) • 14 June – Nathaniel Bond, politician (died 1707) • 23 July – Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1705) • 4 September – Robert South, churchman known for combative preaching (died 1716) • 6 September – Thomas Tryon, hatmaker (died 1703) • 7 November – Francis Winnington, Solicitor-General (died 1700) • 23 November – Paulet St John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke, politician (died 1711) • 25 November – Richard Slater, politician (died 1699) • Unknown – Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, diplomat (died 1705) ==Deaths==

• 23 March – Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea, noblewoman (born 1556) • 12 May – George Chapman, author (born c. 1559) • 25 June – John Marston, dramatist (born 1576) • 9 August – William Noy, jurist (born 1577) • 3 September – Edward Coke, colonial entrepreneur and jurist (born 1552) • 25 December – Lettice Knollys, noblewoman (born 1543) ==References==