Events
- January 1 - The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace.
- October - Following the closure of the London theatres for most of the year, due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, .the epidemic abates with the cooler weather, and a new company is formed under royal patronage: Queen Henrietta's Men.
- John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
- Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of his debts.
- Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the council of war and joins the catastrophic Cadiz expedition under Sir Edward Cecil.
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