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English revolution key dates/time line Flashcards

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What happened on the 27th March 1625?

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Accession of King Charles

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What happened in 1625?

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First Parliament

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What happened September 1625?

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Cadiz expedition
- Sent an invasion fleet of ships to Spanish port of Cadiz - cost £120,000
- Humiliating fiasco, failed to capture the port - parliament furious and EXPENSIVE failure blamed on Buckingham

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4
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What happened 1626?

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second parliament

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What happened February 1626?

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York House conference
- debate chaired by Buckingham (not v. religous)
- The conference was designed to pull Charles away from Anti0Calvanust religion (Armenians)
- Buckingham took a pro-Arminian stance to support Charles
- Charles did not change as he would not change his religous policies

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6
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What happened November 1627?

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5 knights case
- King ordered imprisonment of 76 gentry who refused to pay the sums of money requested by force loan
- 5/76 were trailed
- king used his own prerogative to imprison without trial

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7
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What happened between 1627-28? (forgein)?

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La Rochelle raids
- Buckingham launched a naval expedition to relieve the Huguenots (ENG vs FRA)
- Direct assault failed due to the English scaling ladders being too short
- EXPENSIVE defeat
- Charles spent all of this funding so had to recall parliament

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8
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What happened March 1628?

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3rd Parliament

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9
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What happened August 1628?

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Assassination of Buckingham
- Public celebrations broke out after this death
- Charles held parliament responsible
- Charles could reallocate patronage

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10
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What happened March 1629?

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3 resolutions
- Black rode came to dissolve parliament - not allowed to enter
- lead to Common protestation of 1629

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11
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What happened 1629?

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  • Dissolution of 3rd parliament
  • same day at 3 resolutions
  • Charles realised he would not gain his tonnage and poundage so sent black rode to dissolve parliament
  • beginning of personal rule (not recalled till April 1640)
  • peace with France
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12
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What happened November 1630?

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  • Treaty of Madrid
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13
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What happened in 1631?

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  • New book of orders
  • significant reform of local government
  • popish soap monopoly agreed (Charles earned £33,000)
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14
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What happened 1632?

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  • Death of sir John Eliot
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What happened 1633?

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  • Laud become Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Reissue of book of sports
  • Wentworth become lord deputy of Ireland
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What happened 1634?

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  • 39 articles introduced to Ireland
  • Prynes Ears lopped
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17
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What happened 1635?

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  • Ship money extended (raised £300,00pa (equivalent of 3 parliamentary subsidies)
  • 90 % compliance
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18
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What happened 1636?

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  • Bishop Juxton becomes Lord Treasure
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19
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What happened 1637?

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  • July 1637 - prayer book introduced in Scotland
  • Prayer book riots in Scotland
  • Ship Money trial of John Hampden
  • trial and punishment of puritan pamphleteers
20
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What happened February 1638?

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  • Scottish National Covenant established
  • lead by presbyterian radicals
  • declaration upholding Scots rights to their own faith but not against the king
21
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What happened 1638?

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  • Fenland riots in Norfolk
22
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What happened 1639?

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  • Recall of Wentworth
  • Oath of Allegiance in York
  • 1st Bishops war (reaction to the enforcement of the new prayer book)
23
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What happened in the first half of 1640?

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Short Parliament (April - May)
- Due to the king not having enough money to fight the Scots, Wentworth wanted to recall parliament
- picking a clear outline of what he wanted to get it was dissolved 5th May with neither subsides granted nor grievance discussed
- Pacification of Berwick 18th June
- 2nd Bishops war started

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What happened in the second half of 1640?

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Long Parliament (November)
- 2nd Bishops war came to an end with the Scots having York (September) and the Treaty of Ripon signed
- Events in Scotland caused the recall of parliament
- Treaty of Ripon stated that the king must recall parliament and he can not dissolve parliament until the Scots were paid off

25
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What happened 1641?

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  • Execution of Strafford
  • turning point in relations between King and Parliament
  • Ireland - full rebellion broke out
  • 7th December 16410 - militia bill removed the kings power to summon the militia
  • Grand remonstrance
26
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What happened in the Irish rebellion 1641?

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  • Strongly Catholic nation (caused anxiety for monarch)
  • reasons:
    + constitutional reform - Wentworth’s recall to England recall to England created a power vacuum in Irish government. Long par started to put in a plan to enforce/strength anti-Catholic legislation
    -significance:
    +radicalisation of Long par due to the intensity of Catholicism
27
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What happened Grand remonstrance 1641?

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  • November, Pym introduced a document outlining his criticisms of Charles’s rule including a long list of grievances over financial and religous matters
28
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What happened in 1642? (failed arrest)

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  • King thought he was strong enough to reinsert his royal authority
  • 4th Jan 1642 Charles assembled 500 soldiers and marched into Westminster (broke parliamentary privilege as he enter Commons)
  • Angered a lot of MPs
  • Charles failed to arrest the 5MPs
29
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What happened in 1642? (outbreak of civil war)

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  • Broke out due to political problems . Led to increasingly charged public demonstrations followed by rising armies
  • Early strengths of the royalist cause:
    + greater access to money, better equipped, earl of Worcester donated £300,000, greater access to tax revenues, better structure
30
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What happened 1643?

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  • The oxford treaty negotiations
  • failed attempt at negotiations whereby parliament stuck to its issues raised in the 19 proposition
  • allowed negations to carry on until march before killing the treaty
  • royalist agreement with the Irish confederates
  • Solemn league and Covenant
31
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What happened 1644?

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  • formation of the committee of both kingdoms
  • Battle of Marston Moor
32
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What happened 1645?

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  • Directory of Worship is issued
  • Formation of New Model Army
  • Battle of Naseby
33
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What happened 1646?

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  • Surrender of the king to the Scots
  • Newcastle Propositions
  • Westminster assembly issues its confession of faith
34
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What happened 1647?

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Cornet Joyce seizes the king
- Putney Debates
- Engagement with the Scots

35
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What happened 1648?

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  • Vote of no Addresses
  • Siege of Colchester
  • Prides Purge
36
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What happened 1649?

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  • Trial and execution of Charles I
  • Formation of the council of state
  • Cromwell’s invasion of Ireland
37
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What happened 1650?

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  • Treaty of Breda
  • Toleration Act
  • Battle of Dunbar
38
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What happened 1651?

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  • Scots invasion of England
  • Battle of Worcester
39
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What happened 1652?

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  • Petition of the Army officers
40
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What happened 1653?

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  • Dissolution of the Rump
  • Nominated Assembly
  • Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
41
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What happened 1654?

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  • Union of England and Scotland
  • Western Design
  • 1st Protectorate Parliament
42
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What happened 1655?

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  • Penruddock’s Uprising
  • Rule of the Major Generals
  • Jews allowed back into England
43
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What happened 1656?

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  • 2nd Protectorate Parliament
  • Trial of James Naylor
44
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What happened 1657?

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  • Humble petition and advice
45
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What happened 1658?

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  • Dissolution of the second protectorate parliament
  • death of Oliver Cromwell
  • Instillation of Richard Cromwell
46
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What happened 1659?

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  • 3rd Protectorate Parliament
  • Reinstatement of the Rump
  • Resignation of Richard Cromwell
47
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What happened 1660?

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  • Recall of the Long Parliament
  • Convention Parliament
  • Restoration of King Charles II

AQA History The English Civil War 1625-1660 (10 decks)

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