1635 in England
# 1635 in England

Events from the year 1635 in England.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

* April – Construction is completed on the Jacobean mansion Aston Hall
* 4 August – second writ for ship money is issued, extending the payments to inland towns.
* Peter Paul Rubens paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
* First secondary school established in the North American colonies, the English High and Latin School at Boston.
* First General Post Office opens to the public, at Bishopsgate, London.
* English settlers begin the colonisation of Connecticut.

## Literature

* The stage tragedy Hannibal and Scipio by Thomas Nabbes is first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men

## Births

* 18 July – Robert Hooke, scientist (died 1703)
* 22 November – Francis Willughby, biologist (died 1672)
* 28 December – Princess Elizabeth of England (died 1650)
* 31 December – Sir Robert Southwell, diplomat and politician (died 1702)
* Approximate date – Catherine Pegge, royal mistress

## Deaths

* 12 January – Anne Cornwallis, benefactor (born 1590)
* March – Thomas Randolph, poet (born 1605)
* 27 March – Robert Naunton, politician (born 1563)
* 25 November – John Hall, physician and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)
