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| 4 Jan 1642 CE | English King Charles I attempted to arrest five members of the English parliament. This attempt failed, since they were spirited away before the king's troops arrived. | |
| Jul 1642 CE | Robert Devereux 3rd Earl of Essex was appointed Lord General of the English Parliamentary army, until 1645. | |
| 22 Aug 1642 CE | Civil war in England officially began as Charles I declared war on Parliament from Nottingham. Charles I went to the House of Commons to arrest some of its members and was refused entry. From this point on no monarch was allowed entry. The war ended in 1651. | |
| 23 Oct 1642 CE | The battle of Egehill, when the English Parlimentariand fought the Royalists under Chales I. The result was inconclusive. | |
| 29 Oct 1642 CE | King Charles I and his Royalist army enter Oxford. | |
| 11 Nov 1642 CE | King Charles I and his Royalist army move East and entered Colnbrook. | |
| 12 Nov 1642 CE | The Battle of Turnam Green, West of London, between the Royalist army under King Charles I and the Parliamentarians under Robert Devereux. No actual battle was fought as Charles had no chance against 24,000 men so turned south to Kingston and then withdrew to Reading. | |
| 1642 CE | The Globe Theater in London is closed by The Puritans. | |
| 1642 CE | British King Charles I and his family flee London for Oxford. | |
| 1642 CE | British King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament. | |
| 1642 CE | (1642-1648) The English civil war severely damaged St. Paul's Cathedral in London. | |
| 13 Jul 1643 CE | In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down. | |
| 1643 CE | Battle at Grantham when English Parliamentary armies beat the Royalists. | |
| 1643 CE | British leader Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians. | |
| 1643 CE | In England the bloody battle of Chalgrove Field occurred. Royalist strategy meetings were held at the Horsenden Manor at Buckinghamshsire. | |
| 2 Jul 1644 CE | Lord Cromwell crushed the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor near York, England. | |
| 1644 CE | Battle at Nantwich Cheshire British Parliamentary armies win. | |
| 10 Jan 1645 CE | The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, was beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the Parliament. | |
| 14 Jun 1645 CE | Oliver Cromwell's army routed the King's army at Naseby. | |
| 1646 CE | English Royalist leader, King Charles I, surrenders in Scotland. | |
| 4 Jun 1647 CE | The English army seized King Charles I as a hostage. | |
| 1647 CE | Scottish Presbyterian army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner. | |
| 1647 CE | Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament for £400. | |
| 30 Jan 1649 CE | King Charles I of England was beheaded at Banqueting House, Whitehall by the hangman Richard Brandon. Britain then became a republic between 1649 and 1660. | |
| 30 Jan 1649 CE | Parliament became the supreme power in England under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, who ruled over Parliament as Lord Protector of the New Commonwealth from 1649-1658. | |
| 1657 CE | British Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown. He refuses but accepts the title of 'Lord Protector'. | |
| 1657 CE | Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal. | |
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