1640s Flashcards
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1640
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- 2nd Bishops’ War
- Treaty of Ripon
- Scottish Parliament reassembled without royal assent and began a constitutional revolution including a Triennial Act
- Nov 1640-Aug 1641 - Long Parliament
1
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1641
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- Feb Triennial Act
- May Root and Branch Bill
- May Moderate Earl of Bedford died
- May Wentworth’s execution
- June Ten Propositions
- Oct ‘The Incident’. Royalist Plot led by Charles’ ally to kidnap leading Scottish covenanters
- Oct Irish Rebellion
- Nov Grand Remonstrance
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1642
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- Jan attempted armed coup
- March Militia Ordinance
- June 19 Propositions
- Aug King raised his standard, war
- 1642-6 1st Civil War
- Oct battle of Edgehill inconclusive
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1643
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- Feb-Aug - Oxford Treaty Negotiations
- Aug - SLC brought 22,000 scots into war
- Deaths of John Hampden and John Pym
4
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1644
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- By 1644 developed support for religious toleration emerged in London
- Battle of Marston Moor
5
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1645
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- Levellers emerged
- Feb NMA created
- April Self Denying Ordinance
- June Battle of Naseby
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1646
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- May Charles surrenders to Scots
- July Newcastle Propositions
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1647
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- Spring ‘First Presbyterian Mistake’
- July Heads of Proposals
- Oct Agreement of the People (Levellers)
- Oct-Nov Putney Debates
- Nov Corkbush Field Mutiny
- Dec the Engagement
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1648
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- Jan Vote of No Addresses
- April-Aug 2nd Civil War
- April Windsor Castle Prayer Meeting
- Aug - Battle of Preston
- Dec - Pride’s Purge
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1649
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- 1st digger community in Surrey
- Jan Rump set up high court of Justice to try the king
- Feb Rump votes to abolish HoL and Monarchy
- May - Rump established Commonwealth of England
- Aug - Cromwell landed 10,000 troops in Ireland to impose English Protestant control and punish the catholics for the 1641 rebellion.
- 1649-50 - series of bloody sieges on Irish Strongholds (1649 Drogheda and Wexford)
