Key dates: Flashcards
When did Charles 1 ascend to the throne?
1625
When was the failed attack on Cadiz?
1625
When did Charles 1 protect the Arminian Montagu from Parliament’s threats of impeachment?
1625
When did Buckingham announce his favour for Arminianism?
1626
When did Charles 1 dissolve Parliament and levy the forced loan?
1626
When was the 5 Knights case?
1627
When was the failed attack on La Rochelle?
1627
When was Buckingham assassinated?
1628
When was the Petition of Right?
1628
When was the Three Resolutions?
1629
When was the Personal Rule?
1629- 1640
When was William Laud appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury?
1633
When did Strafford impose the Anglican 39 Articles on Ireland?
1634
When did Strafford make Ireland grant 6 subsidies to the Crown?
1634
When was the Ship Money Tax?
1635 - 1640
When was the Hampden Case?
1637
When was Prynne, Bastwick and Burton sent to the Star Chamber?
1637
When was the Laudian Prayer Book imposed on Scotland?
1637
When was the National Covenant signed in Scotland?
1638
When was the 1st Bishops War?
1639
When was the Short Parliament?
1640
When was the 2nd Bishops War?
1640 - 1641
When was the Long Parliament called?
1640
When was the Triennial Act?
1640
When was the Root and Branch Petition?
December 1640
When was the Bill of Attainder?
May 1641
When was the Militia Bill?
November 1641
When was the Grand Remonstrance?
November 1641
When did Charles 1 try to arrest 5 MPs?
1642
When was the 19 Propositions?
1642
When did Charles 1 raise his standard in Nottingham?
August 1642
When was the Battle of Edgehill?
1642
When did the Royalists plan to attack London but the Parliamentarians had control of the Naval docks?
1643
When was the Solemn League of Covenant agreed by the Scots?
1643
When was the Battle of Marston Moor?
1644
When was the Self-Denying Ordinance?
1645
When was the Battle of Naseby?
1645
When did Charles 1 surrender himself to the Scots and when did the 1st Civil War end?
1646
When was the Newcastle Propositions?
1646
When was the Heads of Proposals?
1647
When were the Putney Debates?
1647
When did the Diggers take camp at St. Georges hill?
1649
When was the 2nd Civil War?
February to August 1648
When was Charles 1 tried and executed?
January 1649
When did Cromwell land in Ireland to subjugate them?
July 1649
When was the Rump Parliament?
1649-53
When did Cromwell defeat the Scottish at the Battle of Dunbar?
1650
When did Cromwell defeat Charles II armies at Worcester?
1651
When was the Anglo-Dutch War?
1652-54
When was the Nominated Assembly?
1653
When was the 1st Protectorate Parliament?
1654-55
When was the military rule of the Major-Generals?
1655-57
When was the 2nd Protectorate Parliament?
1656-58
When did Oliver Cromwell die?
September 1658
When was Richard Cromwell forced from office?
1659
When was Charles II welcomed back to England?
May 1660
When did Charles issue the Declaration of Breda?
1660
When was the Corporation Act?
1661
When was the Quaker Act?
1662
When was the Act of Uniformity?
1662
When was the Hearth Tax?
1662
When was the Conventicle Act?
1664
When was the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War?
1665-67
When was Clarendon removed as chief minister and replaced by the Cabal?
1667
When was the Secret Treaty of Dover signed?
1670
When was the 3rd Anglo-Dutch War?
1672-74
When was Charles II’s Declaration of Indulgence?
1672
When was the Test Act?
1673
When was the Popish Plot?
1678
When were the Exclusion Parliaments?
All three between 1679-81
When was the Rye House Plot?
1683
When did Charles II die?
February 1685
When were the 7 Bishops tried and acquitted?
April 1688
When did Princess Mary give birth to a son?
June 1688
When did James flee to France?
November 1688
When were William and Mary crowned?
December 1688
