27 April - Treaty with Spain arranges marriage between the Prince of Wales and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain in return for relaxation of laws concerning Roman Catholics.
24 July - While hunting at Bramshill, George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally kills a keeper with his crossbow. A royal commission of inquiry narrowly finds in his favour.
Francis Mitchell becomes the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded (stripped of his knighthood) after being found guilty of extorting money from licensees of his monopoly on the licensing of inns.
6 January (probably) - The Banqueting House, Whitehall, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.
7 January - John Pym arrested for criticizing the King in Parliament.
22 March - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (33% of the colony's population) and destroy the Henricus settlement.
23 May - Nathaniel Butter begins publication in London of Newes from Most Parts of Christendom or Weekly News from Italy, Germany, Hungaria, Bohemia, the Palatinate, France and the Low Countries, one of the first regular English language newspapers.
25 May - The East India Company ship Tryall sinks when it hits the Tryal Rocks reef off Australia. 94 out of the 143 crew die.
May - The King's favourite George Villiers made Duke of Buckingham.
30 August - Negotiations of the planned Spanish Match, marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Maria Anna of Spain, break down.
Between 8 November and early December - Publication of the "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare (d. 1616), half of which have not previously been printed.
Completion of the 15-arch Berwick Bridge by James Burrell.
1625
27 March - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England upon the death of James I.
13 June - Marriage of King Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Princess of France and Navarra.
18 June - The "Useless Parliament" refuses to vote Charles I the right to collect customs duties for his entire reign, seeking to restrict him to one year instead.
August
Over 40,000 killed by bubonic plague in London; court and Parliament temporarily moved to Oxford.
January - French ships seized in the English Channel, resulting in an undeclared war with France.
2 June - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leads an expedition to assist the Huguenots at the Siege of La Rochelle.
8 November - Duke of Buckingham leaves La Rochelle, having lost half of his expeditionary force.
28 November - Sir Thomas Darnell launches an unsuccessful appeal against his imprisonment without trial for refusing to pay forced loans; a major impetus for the Petition of Right the following year.
Barbary corsairs from the Republic of Salé begin a 5-year occupation of the Bristol Channel island of Lundy under the command of Dutch renegade Jan Janszoon.
Pitstone Windmill in Buckinghamshire known to exist; it will survive into the 20th century.
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis published posthumously.
1628
February - Writs are issued by Charles I of England compelling every county in England (not just seaport towns) to pay ship tax by 1 March (1628).
17 March - Charles I reconvenes Parliament. Oliver Cromwell becomes an MP for the first time.
7 June - Charles I forced to accept the Petition of Right, as a concession to gain his subsidies.
23 August - John Felton assassinates George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
