Guernsey Timeline 17th Century
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| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1601 | Amice de Carteret appointed Bailiff. |
| 1604 | Charter of James |
| 1605 | Revival of States of Guernsey |
| 1605 | Second Charter of James |
| 1607 | Creation of States of Election. |
| 1607-08 | Royal Commission investigates islanders' complaints |
| 1610 | Lord Carew of Clopton becomes Governor |
| 1613 | Death of Nicolas Baudouin, minister at St Peter Port since 1559. |
| 1615 | Record of 347 houses in St Peter Port; 1008 in the other parishes. |
| 1616 | James privately endorses Guernsey's Presbyterian regime. |
| 1621 | Henry Danvers appointed Governor |
| 1627 | Charter of Charles |
| 1629 | The Rev Peter Heylyn writes an account of the island |
| 1631 | Jean de Quetteville becomes Bailiff. |
| 1637-40 | Henry Burton, Puritan, imprisoned in Castle Cornet. |
| 1642 | Jean de Quetteville suspended from office as Bailiff by commissioners. |
| 1643 | Sir Peter Osborne appointed Royalist Governor |
| 1643 | Guernsey declares for Parliament. Siege of Castle Cornet, held for the Royalists, begins. |
| 1643 | Escape of three Guernsey commissioners from prison in Castle Cornet. |
| 1644 | The Earl of Warwick appointed Parliamentarian Governor |
| 1644-45 | Uprisings against Robert Russell, Guernsey's Parliamentary Lieut-Governor |
| 1646 | Sir Baldwin Wake appointed Royalist Governor |
| 1649 | Col Roger Burgess appointed Royalist Governor |
| 1649 | Col Alban Coxe appointed Parliamentarian Governor |
| 1650 | Col John Bingham appointed Parliamentarian Governor |
| 1651 | Surrender of Castle Cornet to Parliamentary forces. |
| 1653-56 | Jurats hold office of Bailiff monthly, in rotation. |
| 1656 | Pierre de Beauvoir becomes Bailiff. |
| 1660 | Major Henry Wanseye appointed Parliamentarian Governor |
| 1660 | Sir Hugh Pollard appointed Governor |
| 1661 | Amias Andros appointed Bailiff |
| 1662 | Enforcement of Anglicanism in Guernsey. Five ministers resign. Ecclesiastical Court revived. |
| 1662 | Lord Hatton appointed Governor |
| 1665 | Hatton suspended from Governorship. |
| 1668 | Charter of Charles II |
| 1670 | Christopher, Second Lord Hatton, appointed Governor |
| 1674 | Sir Edmund Andros appointed Bailiff. |
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