Events from the year 1632 in England.
Incumbents Monarch – Charles I Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
Events 29 March – The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed in which England agrees to return all of New France to French control. 15 June – Sir Francis Windebank is made chief Secretary of State. 20 June – A royal charter was issued for the foundation of the Maryland colony in North America. Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor. July – portraitist Anthony van Dyck, newly returned to London, is knighted and granted a pension as principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties. 17 October – the court of Star Chamber prohibits all "news books" because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage in England of the Thirty Years' War is unfair.
Literature The Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays published. Publication of William Prynne's Histriomastix, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre.
Births 13 March – John Houblon, first Governor of the Bank of England (died 1712) 29 August – John Locke, philosopher (died 1704) 20 October – Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723) 17 December – Anthony Wood, antiquarian (died 1695)
Deaths 26 March – Sir John Leman, merchant, landowner, Lord Mayor of London and benefactor (born 1544) 22 June – James Whitelocke, judge (born 1570) 23 August – Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, noblewoman complicit in murder (born 1590) 25 August – Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c. 1572) 5 November – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, nobleman, Catholic sympathiser and scientist (born 1564) 27 November – John Eliot, statesman (born 1592)
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