Key Dates: The Early Stuarts and the Origins of Civil War Flashcards
March 1603
Accession of James I
April 1603
Millenary Petition presented to James
December 1603
Execution of Bye and Main Plotters
August 1604
Treaty of London, with Spain
September 1604
New canons for Church of England
January 1604
Hampton Court Conference
December 1604
Richard Bancroft made Archbishop of Canterbury
November 1605
Gunpowder Plot discovered
July 1606
Bate’s case
March 1608
New Book of Rates and Impositions levied
November 1610
Great Contract rejected
1611
Authorised version of the Bible published
May 1611
George Abbot made Archbishop of Canterbury
February 1613
Marriage of Elizabeth and Frederick of the Palatinate
December 1614
Cockayne’s Project
May 1618
Outbreak of Thirty Years War
1618
Book of Sports issued
March 1621
Cranfield made Lord Treasurer
November 1621
William Laud made Bishop of St David’s
December 1621
Protestation of the Commons
February 1623
Buckingham and Charles travel to Madrid
June 1625
Marriage of Charles and Henrietta Maria
March 1625
Death of James
December 1625
Failure of expedition to Cadiz
September 1626
Forced loan levied
October 1627
Failure of the expedition to La Rochelle
November 1627
Five Knights’ Case
June 1628
Charles accepts Petition of Right
August 1628
Assassination of Buckingham
March 1629
Dissolution of parliament; the Three Resolutions
January 1632
Wentworth appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland
August 1633
Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
October 1634
First writs issued for ship money
June 1635
Ship money levied on the whole country
June 1637
Prynne, Bastwick and Burton punished for writing against Bishops
July 1637
Riots in Edinburgh over new Prayer Book
November 1637
Trial of John Hampden over refusal to pay ship money
February 1638
National Covenant drawn up in Scotland
June 1639
First Bishops’ War
September 1639
Return of Wentworth from Ireland
April 1640
Short Parliament meets
August 1640
Second Bishops’ War
October 1640
Treaty of Rippon
November 1640
Long Parliament meets
December 1640
Impeachment of royal ministers
February 1641
Triennial Act
May 1641
Execution of Strafford
October 1641
Outbreak of Irish Rebellion
November 1641
Grand Remonstrance passed
January 1642
Attempted arrest of five MPs by Charles
March 1642
Militia Ordinance passed
June 1642
Charles rejects the Nineteen Propositions
August 1642
Charles raises his standard at Nottingham
October 1642
Battle of Edgehill
November 1642
Royal forces halted at Turnham Green
September 1643
Royal advance on London stopped
Solemn League and Covenant between Parliament and the Scots
July 1644
Battle of Marston Moor
February 1645
Creation of the New Model Army
April 1645
Self-Denying Ordinance
June 1645
Battle of Naseby
May 1646
Charles surrenders to the Scots at Newcastle
June 1646
Surrender of Oxford
End of the first Civil War
July 1646
Parliament sends Charles the Newcastle Propositions
February 1647
Scots hand Charles over to Parliament
June 1647
Army seize Charles and start independent negotiations
August 1647
Heads of Proposals presented to Charles
October-November 1647
Putney Debates
December 1647
Charles signs the Engagement with the Scots
January 1648
Parliament ends negotiations with Charles (Vote of No Addresses)
August 1648
Battle of Preston
November 1648
Army Remonstrance
6th December 1648
Pride’s Purge
January 1649
The Trial and Execution of Charles I
March 1649
Monarchy and Lords abolished
May 1649
Leveller mutiny defeated
England becomes a Commonwealth
July 1649
Cromwell to Ireland
June 1650
Cromwell returns from Ireland
July 1650
Cromwell leads army to Scotland
September 1651
Battle of Worcester