Timeline of Cornish History - 1600

1600

• 1603 Following Queen Elizabeth I's death, the Venetian ambassador writes that the "late queen had ruled over five different 'peoples'--English, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish".
• 1616 Arthur Hopton (ambassador to Madrid) writes that "England is ... divided into three great Provinces, or Countries ... speaking a several and different language, as English, Welsh and Cornish".

• 1616 - Pocahontas may have visited Indian Queens, although this is disputed.
• 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
• 1620 - The Mayflower, en route to America with the Pilgrim Fathers stops off at Newlyn to take on water.
• 1640 Charles I recalls Parliament in order to obtain money to finance his military struggle with Scotland. Parliament agrees to fund Charles, but only on condition he answer their grievances relating to his 11-year "personal rule" or "tyranny". Charles refuses and dissolves Parliament after a mere 3 weeks, hence the name of the "Short Parliament"
• 1642 The Cornish played a significant role Civil War as Cornwall was a Royalist stronghold in the generally Parliamentarian south-west. The reason for this was that Cornwall's rights and privileges were tied up with the royal Duchy and Stannaries and the Cornish saw the Civil War as a fight between England and Cornwall as much as a conflict between King and Parliament.
• 1642–1646 - The First "English" Civil War
• 1642 First Battle of Lostwithiel.
• 1643 January 19 - Cornish Royalist victory at the Battle of Braddock
• 1643 May 15 - Cornish Royalist victory at the Battle of Stratton.
• 1644 August 1 - King Charles I arrived in Cornwall and spent the night at Trecarrel near Launceston
• 1644 August 31 - Cornish Royalist victory at the Second Battle of Lostwithiel.
• 1645 Cornish Royalist leader Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet made Launceston his base and he stationed Cornish troops along the River Tamar and issued them with instructions to keep "all foreign troops out of Cornwall". Grenville tried to use "Cornish particularist sentiment" to muster support for the Royalist cause and put a plan to the Prince which would, if implemented, have created a semi-independent Cornwall.
• 1646 Following the Roundhead victory at the Battle of Naseby in 1645 they had proceeded towards Cornwall reaching Launceston on 25 February 1646 and Bodmin by 2 March 1646. There were skirmishes but the Cornish were vastly outnumbered. Fairfax offered Hopton terms and the surrender took place at Tresillian Bridge, Truro, on 15 March 1646.
• 1646 The siege of Pendennis Castle began in April 1646 and lasted for five months. Parliamentary forces attacked the castle from both land and sea and it finally surrendered on 17 August 1646.
• 1648 The Gear Rout - The last Cornish armed uprising involving some 500 rebels.
• 1648–1649 - Second English Civil War
• 1649–1651 - Third English Civil War
• 1651: June: Capture of the Isles of Scilly by Admiral Robert Blake
• 1652 Battle of Plymouth off Cornish coast, part of First Anglo-Dutch War
• 1676 - Chesten Marchant supposedly the last Cornish monoglot, dies.