3 September – English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II, leading a largely Scottish army, is defeated in the last main battle of the war and begins his escape northwards.
6 September – Charles II hides from pursuing Parliamentarian troops in the Royal Oak tree at Boscobel House in Shropshire.[1]
William Gilbert's A New Philosophy of Our Sublunar World is published posthumously. It theorises that the fixed stars are not all the same distance from Earth, and that the force of magnetism holds the planets in orbit around the Sun.
26 November – Henry Ireton, Civil War leader, of plague (born 1611)
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^ ab"1651: The Scilly Isles". British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate,1638–60. 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
^ abPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 185–186. ISBN0-7126-5616-2.