Events
- January - Regional military government in England abolished.
- 8 January - Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London and arrested.
- 23 February - Oliver Cromwell is offered the Crown by the Humble Petition and Advice.
- 13 March - Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): With the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain; England receives Dunkirk.
- 20 April - Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 8 May - Cromwell formally rejects the offer to become King.
- 26 June - Cromwell is installed as Lord Protector for the second time at a ceremony at Westminster.
- 13 July - Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.
- undated - England's first chocolate house is opened in London.
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