Key dates:

Question 1

When did Charles 1 ascend to the throne?

Answer 1

1625

Question 2

When was the failed attack on Cadiz?

Answer 2

1625

Question 3

When did Charles 1 protect the Arminian Montagu from Parliament’s threats of impeachment?

Answer 3

1625

Question 4

When did Buckingham announce his favour for Arminianism?

Answer 4

1626

Question 5

When did Charles 1 dissolve Parliament and levy the forced loan?

Answer 5

1626

Question 6

When was the 5 Knights case?

Answer 6

1627

Question 7

When was the failed attack on La Rochelle?

Answer 7

1627

Question 8

When was Buckingham assassinated?

Answer 8

1628

Question 9

When was the Petition of Right?

Answer 9

1628

Question 10

When was the Three Resolutions?

Answer 10

1629

Question 11

When was the Personal Rule?

Answer 11

1629- 1640

Question 12

When was William Laud appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 12

1633

Question 13

When did Strafford impose the Anglican 39 Articles on Ireland?

Answer 13

1634

Question 14

When did Strafford make Ireland grant 6 subsidies to the Crown?

Answer 14

1634

Question 15

When was the Ship Money Tax?

Answer 15

1635 - 1640

Question 16

When was the Hampden Case?

Answer 16

1637

Question 17

When was Prynne, Bastwick and Burton sent to the Star Chamber?

Answer 17

1637

Question 18

When was the Laudian Prayer Book imposed on Scotland?

Answer 18

1637

Question 19

When was the National Covenant signed in Scotland?

Answer 19

1638

Question 20

When was the 1st Bishops War?

Answer 20

1639

Question 21

When was the Short Parliament?

Answer 21

1640

Question 22

When was the 2nd Bishops War?

Answer 22

1640 - 1641

Question 23

When was the Long Parliament called?

Answer 23

1640

Question 24

When was the Triennial Act?

Answer 24

1640

Question 25

When was the Root and Branch Petition?

Answer 25

December 1640

Question 26

When was the Bill of Attainder?

Answer 26

May 1641

Question 27

When was the Militia Bill?

Answer 27

November 1641

Question 28

When was the Grand Remonstrance?

Answer 28

November 1641

Question 29

When did Charles 1 try to arrest 5 MPs?

Answer 29

1642

Question 30

When was the 19 Propositions?

Answer 30

1642

Question 31

When did Charles 1 raise his standard in Nottingham?

Answer 31

August 1642

Question 32

When was the Battle of Edgehill?

Answer 32

1642

Question 33

When did the Royalists plan to attack London but the Parliamentarians had control of the Naval docks?

Answer 33

1643

Question 34

When was the Solemn League of Covenant agreed by the Scots?

Answer 34

1643

Question 35

When was the Battle of Marston Moor?

Answer 35

1644

Question 36

When was the Self-Denying Ordinance?

Answer 36

1645

Question 37

When was the Battle of Naseby?

Answer 37

1645

Question 38

When did Charles 1 surrender himself to the Scots and when did the 1st Civil War end?

Answer 38

1646

Question 39

When was the Newcastle Propositions?

Answer 39

1646

Question 40

When was the Heads of Proposals?

Answer 40

1647

Question 41

When were the Putney Debates?

Answer 41

1647

Question 42

When did the Diggers take camp at St. Georges hill?

Answer 42

1649

Question 43

When was the 2nd Civil War?

Answer 43

February to August 1648

Question 44

When was Charles 1 tried and executed?

Answer 44

January 1649

Question 45

When did Cromwell land in Ireland to subjugate them?

Answer 45

July 1649

Question 46

When was the Rump Parliament?

Answer 46

1649-53

Question 47

When did Cromwell defeat the Scottish at the Battle of Dunbar?

Answer 47

1650

Question 48

When did Cromwell defeat Charles II armies at Worcester?

Answer 48

1651

Question 49

When was the Anglo-Dutch War?

Answer 49

1652-54

Question 50

When was the Nominated Assembly?

Answer 50

1653

Question 51

When was the 1st Protectorate Parliament?

Answer 51

1654-55

Question 52

When was the military rule of the Major-Generals?

Answer 52

1655-57

Question 53

When was the 2nd Protectorate Parliament?

Answer 53

1656-58

Question 54

When did Oliver Cromwell die?

Answer 54

September 1658

Question 55

When was Richard Cromwell forced from office?

Answer 55

1659

Question 56

When was Charles II welcomed back to England?

Answer 56

May 1660

Question 57

When did Charles issue the Declaration of Breda?

Answer 57

1660

Question 58

When was the Corporation Act?

Answer 58

1661

Question 59

When was the Quaker Act?

Answer 59

1662

Question 60

When was the Act of Uniformity?

Answer 60

1662

Question 61

When was the Hearth Tax?

Answer 61

1662

Question 62

When was the Conventicle Act?

Answer 62

1664

Question 63

When was the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War?

Answer 63

1665-67

Question 64

When was Clarendon removed as chief minister and replaced by the Cabal?

Answer 64

1667

Question 65

When was the Secret Treaty of Dover signed?

Answer 65

1670

Question 66

When was the 3rd Anglo-Dutch War?

Answer 66

1672-74

Question 67

When was Charles II's Declaration of Indulgence?

Answer 67

1672

Question 68

When was the Test Act?

Answer 68

1673

Question 69

When was the Popish Plot?

Answer 69

1678

Question 70

When were the Exclusion Parliaments?

Answer 70

All three between 1679-81

Question 71

When was the Rye House Plot?

Answer 71

1683

Question 72

When did Charles II die?

Answer 72

February 1685

Question 73

When were the 7 Bishops tried and acquitted?

Answer 73

April 1688

Question 74

When did Princess Mary give birth to a son?

Answer 74

June 1688

Question 75

When did James flee to France?

Answer 75

November 1688

Question 76

When were William and Mary crowned?

Answer 76

December 1688