Charles II's Reign Flashcards
Harsher navigation act
1660
Venners rising
January 1661
Savoy house conference on a religious settlement
April-July 1661
Worcester house conference to discuss a religious settlement
October 1660
Bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Bradshaw and Ireton exhumed and hung on the gallows at Tyburn
January 1661
First session of Cavalier parliament
May-July 1661
Bishops restored to House of Lords
1661
Solemn league and covenant burned
1661
Act for censorship of the press
November 1661
Quaker act
1661
Prayer book revised by convocation
April 1662
Hearth tax
May 1661
Uniformity act
May 1662
First declaration of indulgence
December 1662
Charles forced to withdraw declaration of indulgence and accept test act
April 1663
Conventicle act
November 1664
P grant £2.5 mill for Dutch ear- start of Dutch war
February 1665
Five mile act
October 1665
Great plague in London
1665
Four days Battle in the Channel
June 1666
Great fire of London
September 1666
Dutch victory in the Medway
June 1657
Dutch war ends with the Treaty of Breda
July 1657
Clarendon dismissed
October 1667
Triple alliance between England, United provinces and Sweden
January 1668
Opposition to Charles II’s pro toleration in cavalier p
Feb 1668
Act of supremacy bringing in Scottish church under English control
October 1659
Second conventicle act
February 1670
Secret treaty of Dover
May 1670
Public treaty of Dover
December 1570
Stop of the exchequer
January 72
Second declaration of indulgence
March 72
Start of third Anglo Dutch war
March 72
Seconds declaration of indulgence with drawn
March 73
New harsher test act
March 73
Jane stilled to take communion under new test act=communion
Easter 73
Clifford and James forced to resign under test act
June 1673
Osborne created earl of Danby
June 73
James married Mary of Modena
Sep 73
Shaftesbury dismissed
Sep 73
New test act
January 74
Start of proposals to place limitations on Catholic monarch
January 74
End of third Anglo Dutch war- treaty of Westminster
Feb 74
Cavalier p only grant £300,000
October 75
Danby arranged marriage of James eldest daughter Mary and William of Orange
October 1677
Titus oats popish plot
August 1678
Anti catholic hysteria
October 78
Charles agree to even newer test act
October 78
Edward Colemen and 30 others executed for taking part in popish plot
78-81
Montagus revaluations of Danbys secret subsidy negotiations with Louis=fall of Danby
December 78
Dissolution of cavalier p
January 79
Fort exclusion p met
March 79
Impeachment of Danby
March 59
First exclusion bill
March 59
Pope burning demonstrations in London
November 79
Second exclusion p
October 1680
Exclusion bill passed in commons
October 1680
Charles makes sure exclusion bill isn’t passed in the Lords by attending sessions
November 1680
Third exclusion p at Oxford
March 81
Exclusion bill pass in both houses- c able to dissolve p because of finance- end of exclusion crisis
March 1681
Tory reaction and purges of Whigs
1681-4
Increase in royal revenue from custom duties
1681-4
Rye hours plot
1683
P didn’t summon a new p despite the triennial act
1684
Danby released from the tower and James restored to privy council
1684
Death of Charles II
February 1685
When was the stop of the exchequer
January 72