Charles ECW

By JJH2010

  • Accession of James I

  • Period: to

    First Parliament

  • Gunpowder Plot

  • Oath of Allegiance

  • Second "Addled" Parliament

  • Outbreak of the Thirty Years' War

  • Third Parliament

  • Fourth Parliament

  • Death of James I

  • Charles I's First Parliament

  • Treaty of Southampton between England and the Dutch Republic

  • Cadis expedition

  • Death of James I and ascensions of Charles I

  • Marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria

  • Dismissal of Henrietta Maria's French courtiers

  • Charles I's Second Parliament

  • York House Conference

  • Parliament's protestation against Buckingham

  • First expedition to La Rochelle

  • Five Knight's Case

  • Period: to

    Anglo-French War

  • Charles calls his Third Parliament

  • Parliament issues the Petition of Right

  • Laud and Montagu elevated to key bishoprics

  • Charles prorogues the Third Parliament

  • Assassination of Buckingham

  • Wentworth becomes Lord President of the Council of the North

  • First child (stillborn) of Charles and Henrietta Maria

  • Recall of Third Parliament

  • Three Resolutions

  • Dissolution of Third Parliament

  • Peace with France

  • Dissolution of Parliament

  • Bishops ordered back to the dioceses

  • Scottish Protestants ordered to kneel for communion annually

  • Peace with Spain

  • Book of Orders

  • New Book of Orders issued

  • William Laud because Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Re-issue of Jacobean Book of Sports

  • Abolition of Feoffees for Impropriations

  • Wentworth becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland

  • New Book of Rates issued in Ireland

  • All Scottish Bishops are made Justices of the Peace

  • Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles introduced into Ireland

  • Irish Parliament grants six subsidies

  • Ship Money levied across England

  • Revised Book of Rates

  • Archbishop Spottiswoode becomes Lord Chancellor of Scotland

  • Bishop William Juxon of London becomes Lord Treasurer of England

  • Hampden Case

  • Trial and punishment of Prynne, Bastwick and Burton

  • Book of Common Prayer introduced in Scotland

  • Formation of The Tables

  • Prayer Book riot in St Giles' Cathedral

  • General Assembly and Parliament suspended the Prayer Book, Canons and Episcopacy

  • Non-conformity is made treasonous

  • Scottish National Convenant

  • Wentworth recalled from Ireland

  • Wentworth recalled to England

  • Oath of Allegiance in York

  • Pacification of Berwick

  • Covenanters launch pre-emptive attack on England

  • Treaty of Ripon

  • Impeachment of Strafford

  • Petition of the Twelve Peers

  • Root and Branch Petition, impeachment of Laud

  • Period: to

    English 'Short' Parliament

  • Opening of the Short Parliament

  • Dissolution of the Short Parliament

  • Opening of the Long Parliament

  • Act against Dissolution

  • Grand Remonstrance

  • Impeachment abandoned

  • Trial of Strafford opens

  • Death of Bedford

  • The 'Additional Instruction'

  • The Army Plot

  • Strafford executed under Act of Attainder

  • Charles travels to Scotland

  • The King's answer to the Petition

  • The 'Incident'

  • The Grand Remonstrance

  • Outbreak of Irish Rebellion

  • Charles returns from Scotland

  • The Militia Bill

  • Period: to

    Parliamentary recess

  • Triennial Act

  • Charles orders army officers to return to their troops

  • News breaks of the Army Plot

  • Protestation Oath presented to Parliament

  • Act against Dissolution

  • Death of the Earl of Bedford

  • Exclusion Bill

  • Failed Arrest of the Five Members

  • Parliament raises an army

  • Charles raises standard at Nottingham

  • Militia Ordinance

  • The Nineteen Propositions

  • Charles raised his standard

  • Charles retreats to Oxford

  • FCW - King raises Standard at Nottingham

  • FCW - King makes headquarters at Shrewsbury

  • FCW - Battle of Turnham Green

  • FCW - King retreats to set up headquarters at Oxford

  • Battle of Edgehill

  • FCW - Battle of Edgehill

  • Standoff at Turnham Green

  • Period: to

    Oxford Treaty negotiations

  • Period: to

    Siege of Gloucester

  • Battle of Admalton

  • Battle of Roundway Hill

  • First Battle of Newbury