| Colchester.uk.com | The History of Colchester 1651-1700 |
| Year | Events |
| 1651 | East Gate fell down |
| 1652 | |
| 1653 | 300 prisoners held at the castle after the Commonwealth victory against the Dutch |
| 1654 | |
| 1655 | July: James Parnell, a 19 year old follower of the quaker George Fox, arrives in Colchester and holds prayer meetings |
| 1656 | April 10: James Parnell dies in gaol after having been arrested for brawling in Coggeshall church
John Evelyn describes Colchester as "a fair town, but now wretchedly demolished by the late siege, especially the suburbs, which were all burnt" |
| 1657 | |
| 1658 | |
| 1659 | Rye Gate demolished |
| 1660 | Colchester's MP, Sir Harbottle Grimston, becomes Speaker of the House of Commons and Master of the Rolls |
| 1661 | Funeral service for Lucas and Lisle, the Royalist commanders executed in 1648 |
| 1662 | |
| 1663 | William More, mayor of Colchester, violently attacks the quaker meeting doing "much mischief to the forms, seats, and windows" |
| 1664 | |
| 1665 | June: 2,063 Dutch sailors and 13 officers brought to Colchester following a sea battle off Lowestoft
August: plague arrives in Colchester September: death rate reaches 25 per day December: death rate drops to 6 per day |
| 1666 | May: plague death rates rise again to 25 per day
June: death rates begin to drop steadily November: plague outbreak ends having claimed 4,731 lives |
| 1667 | |
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| 1669 | Duke Cosmo of Florence is shown sites relating to the siege |
| 1670 | |
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| 1674 | |
| 1675 | Remains of East Gate made safe |
| 1676 | |
| 1677 | |
| 1678 | Winnock's almshouses founded in Military Road (1679) |
| 1679 | |
| 1680 | |
| 1681 | |
| 1682 | |
| 1683 | Castle keep sold to John Wheeley for demolition |
| 1684 | |
| 1685 | |
| 1686 | |
| 1687 | |
| 1688 | New charter granted by James II |
| 1689 | |
| 1690 | (circa) Isaac Rebow lays out his "walk" |
| 1691 | Newly built independent Meeting House in Moor Elmes Lane, (now Priory Street) |
| 1692 | September 8th, earthquake causes crack to open and close in St. Peter's church steeple and a chimney to collapse on North Hill
Isaac Rebow elected MP for Colchester |
| 1693 | John Wheeley begins demolition of the castle
William III stays at Headgate with Isaac Rebow and knights him |
| 1694 | |
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| 1697 | |
| 1698 | Foundation of Colchester, Connecticut on land bought from the Sachem of the Mohegan Indians by Nathaniel Foote, the grandson of an emigrant from Essex |
| 1699 | |
| 1700 | |
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