Maps of territory held by Cavalier | Royalists ( red ) and Roundhead | Parliamentarians ( green ) during the English Civil War ( 1642 – 1645 )

" The term " anarchist " first entered the English language in 1642, during the English Civil War, as a term of abuse, used by Royalists against their Roundhead opponents.

The last recorded use of bows in an English battle seems to have been a skirmish at Bridgnorth, in October 1642, during the Civil War, when an impromptu town militia proved effective against un-armoured musketeers.

Again besieged and captured by the French during the Thirty Years ' War in September 1642, Perpignan was formally ceded by Spain 17 years later in the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and from then on remained a French possession.

During the period 1642 – 48 there were skirmishes on Staines Moor and numerous troop movements over Staines Bridge during the Civil War.

The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the First English Civil War of 1642 – 1646.

Royalist MPs gradually filtered away from parliament during 1642.

First named Charles River Shire by the English, York County was renamed in 1642 during the English Civil War.

* 1642 Battle of Brentford during the English Civil War

The first bridge of any kind between the two parishes of Fulham and Putney was built during the Civil War: after the Battle of Brentford in 1642, the Parliamentary forces built a bridge of boats between Fulham and Putney.

He was a member of the Parliament's garrison at Brentford against Prince Rupert during the Battle of Brentford that took place on 12 November 1642 as the Royalists advanced on London and, after trying to escape by jumping in the Thames, was taken as a prisoner to Oxford.

Merton College records in the 1290s call it Iftele and Yiftele ; it is Yeftley to the civil servants writing up the Domesday of Inclosures, in Latin, in 1517 – 18 ; Lincoln College accounts, written less formally and in English, have Ifley by 1543, and it is Iffley or Iflie during the Civil War 1642 – 46.

On the other hand Hall's authorship was an open secret, and in 1642 John Milton used it to attack Hall ( during the Smectymnuus controversy ) by employing the argument that Utopia and New Atlantis had a constructive approach lacking in Mundus Alter.

In 1642 – 49, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, there was brief experiment in independent Irish government known as Confederate Ireland.

Under Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, Warwick Castle's defences were enhanced from January to May 1642 in preparation for attack during the First English Civil War.

Modernist republicanism openly influenced the foundation of republics during the Dutch Revolt ( 1568 – 1609 ), English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ), American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ), and the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ).

The regiment has the rare distinction of having fought on the side of both Parliament and the Royalists during the English Civil War 1642 to 1649.

Written during the English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.

He was preaching at Alcester, on 23 October 1642, during the Battle of Edgehill.

On 13 November 1642 his men were surprised at Brentford during his absence, and routed after a stout resistance.

He also won Richelieu's favor when he was present with the Cardinal during the plot of Cinq Mars, and afterwards fought in the siege of Perpignan ( 1642 ).

The outbreak of the First English Civil War in 1642 during the reign of Charles I disrupted the systems of legal education and governance at the Inns of Court, shutting down all calls to the Bar and new admissions, and Gray's Inn never fully recovered.

It was only produced during the English Civil War, at King Charles I's mints at Oxford ( between 1642 and 1644 ) and, rarely, at Shrewsbury in 1642.

Set in 17th-century Puritan Salem, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

* 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

* 1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar ( b. 1642 )

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ( Roundheads ) and Royalists ( Cavaliers ).

The English Civil War, 1642 – 1645, led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with the repeal of the Royal Patent in August 1641.

The First English Civil War broke out in 1642, largely as a result of an ongoing series of conflicts between James ' son, Charles I, and Parliament.

During the English Civil War ( 1642 – 45 ) the town sided with parliament but was largely unaffected by the conflict.

In 1642, the Dutch drove the Portuguese out of the Gold Coast in Africa, the source of the bulk of Portuguese slave labourers, leaving this rich slaving area to other Europeans, especially the Dutch and the English.

* 1710 – David Mitchell, English admiral ( b. 1642 )

( 2001 ) Edgehill 1642: First Battle of the English Civil War.

For events between 1642 and 1648, See First English Civil War

* 1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.

* 1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.

The first use of the word police (" Polles ") in English comes from the book " The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England " published in 1642

In alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and in the late 1630s with the Scottish Presbyterians with whom they had much in common, the Puritans became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 46 ).

The word supersessionism comes from English supersede, first known to have been used with the meaning replace in 1642.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

* English Renaissance theatre – also known as early modern English theatre, refers to the theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642.

** James Mabbe, English scholar and poet ( d. 1642 )

* February 10 – John Suckling, English poet ( d. 1642 )