Timeline |
27 Mar 1625 CE | British King James I dies and King Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne. | |
2 Feb 1626 CE | Charles I was crowned King of England. | |
10 Mar 1629 CE | England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years. | |
1629 CE | British King Charles I leaces the house of commons. | |
29 May 1630 CE | Charles II, son of Chrles I and later King of England, was born. | |
1633 CE | The Blessing, a ferry carrying gold and silver of King Charles I and 30 passengers, sank in Scotland's Firth of Forth. | |
23 Jul 1637 CE | King Charles of England handed over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Fernando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England. | |
1641 CE | English King Charles I accept Triennial Act. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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 | British King Charles I and his family flee London for Oxford. | |
1642 CE | British King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament. | |
2 Jul 1644 CE | Lord Cromwell crushed the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor near York, England. | |
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. | |
1646 CE | Charles I licensed the Silver Cross to serve as both a brothel and drinking establishment. | |
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 | The Prince of Wales becomes King Charles II, of England, although technically Britain is a republic. | |
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. | |
3 Sep 1658 CE | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the New Commonwealth, ruler over England's parliament, dies from malaria. He is suceeded by his son Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector. When Oliver Cromwell was dying, he refused to take the only known treatment (quinine from cinchona) because it was introduced by Jesuits. | |
1659 CE | Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector. | |