Jersey Timeline 17th Century
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| Year | Jersey events | World events | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1600 | Sir Walter Raleigh appointed Governor | ||
| 1602 | Accession of James I. Raleigh dismissed and imprisoned in the Tower of London | ||
| 1615 | Philip Picot prohibited from knitting in the company of girls | ||
| 1616 | Spire of St Martin's Church struck by lightning as churchgoers enter | ||
| 1618 | Dispute over relative authority of Governor and Bailiff. Privy Council rules that Bailiff's powers have precedence. | ||
| 1619 | First Impots duty on wine permitted by Crown | ||
| 1622 | Militia divided into three regiments (N, W and E) and a colonel appointed for each | ||
| 1623 | Ecclesiastical canons for island approved by James I | ||
| 1624 | Royal Court act condemns smoking as a great abuse | ||
| 1625 | All found begging outside their parish to be put in stocks | Charles I acceeds to throne | |
| 1626 | Serious outbreak of plague | ||
| 1631 | Privy Council prohibits planting of tobacco as 'injurious to the morals of the public' | ||
| 1634 | Jersey had about 25,000 inhabitants. There were 100 to 130 Seigneurs with large families, probably around 2,000 persons in all. Then there were farmers who kept sheep, pigs, fowls. geese and turkeys. Wheat was the main crop. Sons sailed to Newfoundland and women earned by knitting. The word Jersey in England meant knitting. | ||
| 1635 | Charles I founds three Fellowships at Oxford University for Channel Islanders | ||
| 1636 | Law enact to forbid anyone from wearing garments not befitting their social position | ||
| 1637 | Puritan pamphleteer William Prynne a prisoner at Mont Orgueil | ||
| 1641 | Dukeof Vendome, ex Governor of Brittany, seeks refuge accused of attempting to murder Cardinal Richelieu | ||
| 1642 | English Civil War starts | ||
| 1643 | Jean Chevalier commences his diary | ||
| 1643 | Parliamentarians take island. Death of Sir Philippe de Carteret in Elizabeth Castle | ||
| 1643 | Michel Lempriere sworn in as Parliamentary Bailiff. Three months later Sir George Carteret retakes island for King | ||
| 1644 | Prince Charles orders burning of all contracts passed before Michel Lempriere | ||
| 1646 | Visit of Charles, Prince of Wales; House of Correction established in St Helier | ||
| 1647-51 | Sir George de Carteret's privateers attack shipping in English coastal waters | ||
| 1647 | Fort Charles in Elizabeth Castle completed; old thatched courthouse pulled down | ||
| 1648 | Opening of new Royal Court building | ||
| 1649 | Execution of Charles I. Charles II proclaimed King in Jersey and visits for second time | ||
| 1649 | States reduce number of taverns in town to six. By 1797 there were 100 | ||
| 1650 | Charles II grants Sir George Carteret Smith's Islands off coast of Virginia | ||
| 1651 | Admiral Blake captures Jersey for Parliamentarians. Mont Orgueil capitulated after two-week siege and Elizabeth Castle after nearly two months | ||
| 1657 | States agree to pave Market Square (now the Royal Square) | ||
| 1660 | Lords of Council direct that no strangers other than British subjects be allowed to set up shop in the island | Accession of Charles II following Restoration of the Monarchy | |
| 1661 | Imprisonment in Mont Orgueil Castle of five judges who signed Charles I's death warrant | ||
| 1661 | States order Oath of Allegiance to the King for all mean over the age of 16 | ||
| 1661 | Edward Mars put in the stocks for stealing a goose | ||
| 1662 | Royal Charter issued by Charles II confirming the privileges and immunities of islanders. Royal mace presented to island by the King | ||
| 1664 | Land between Hudson and Delaware rivers granted to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley and named New Jersey | ||
| 1666 | Louis XIV declared war on England and Jersey was to be his first target. Sir Thomas Morgan remodelled the Militia but the following year the invasion threat was removed. | ||
| 1669 | Letters Patent allow the levying of duties on wines, cider etc to build College, House of Correction and pier at St Aubin's Fort | ||
| 1670 | Work starts on construction of pier at St Aubin's Fort; finished 1675 | ||
| 1671 | Corn Market in Royal Square built by Susanne Dumaresq | ||
| 1673 | States forbid planting of new orchards to detriment of corn crop | ||
| 1674 | Act of Court forbids inhabitants of HillStreet throwing soap suds in brook | ||
| 1676 | Curfew ordnance introduced to prevent trouble on closing of taverns | ||
| 1679 | Militia required to wear red coats | ||
| 1680 | Royal Warrant appoints Commissioner of Customs | ||
| 1681 | Sir George Carteret, grandson of former, created Baron Carteret of Hawnes | ||
| 1682 | Lady Carteret, widow of Sir George sells New Jersey to William Penn and others | ||
| 1685 | Flood of French Huguenots reaches Jersey after Revocation of the Edict of Nantes | Accession of James II | |
| 1685 | Survey by Philippe Dumaresq records 3,069 houses and 15,000 inhabitants | ||
| 1689 | Official appointed to keep the town clean | Accession of William III and Mary II | |
| 1691 | States decide that all houses in town should have slate roofs within six years | ||
| 1693 | Completion of new prison at Charing Cross | ||
| 1698 | Imprisonment of Dean Clement Le Couteur for excommunicating the Constable and Churchwardens of St Peter | ||
| 1699 | States authorised to impose Impôts to finance building of St Helier harbour. Pier at St Aubin's Fort completed the following year |
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