1654 in England

• Lord Protector – Oliver Cromwell

• 20 March – establishment of Commission of Triers which will fill empty Anglican benefices with Puritan ministers.{{cite web|first=David|last=Plant|title=1654|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1654.htm|work=British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1638-60|date=2010-04-18|access-date=2012-07-10|archive-date=2012-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218161155/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1654.htm|url-status=dead}}
• 5 April – signing of the Treaty of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch War, and the Dutch agree to observe the Navigation Acts.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/266 266]}}
• 11 April – Anglo-Swedish alliance: A commercial treaty between England and Sweden is signed.
• 12 April – Oliver Cromwell creates a union between England and Scotland, with Scottish representation in the Parliament of England.
• 10 July – Peter Vowell and John Gerard are executed in London for plotting to assassinate Cromwell.
• August – Cromwell launches the 'Western Design', an expedition to the Caribbean to counter Spanish commercial interests, effectively beginning the Anglo-Spanish War (which will last until after the Restoration in 1660).{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=185–186|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}} The main fleet leaves Portsmouth on 25 December.
• 3 September – First Protectorate Parliament assembles.

• 10 January – Joshua Barnes, scholar (died 1712)
• 22 January – Richard Blackmore, physician and writer (died 1729)
• 22 February – Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albemarle (died 1734)
• 27 April – Charles Blount, deist (died 1693)
• 23 June – Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, politician (died 1717)
• John Bellers, educationist (died 1725)

• 10 January – Nicholas Culpeper, astrologer (born 1616)
• 8 February – John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury (born 1601)
• 19 February – Edmund Chilmead, writer (born 1610)
• 3 June – Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (born 1585)
• 27 June– Thomas Gataker, clergy (born 1574)
• 28 June – John Southworth, martyr (born 1592)
• 10 July – Peter Vowell, Royalist conspirator (year of birth unknown)
• August – Roger Dodsworth, antiquary (born 1585)
• 30 November
• William Habington, poet (born 1605)
• John Selden, lawyer (born 1584)
• 6 December (bur.) – Sir William Brockman, military leader and politician (born 1595)

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