1646-1653 Timeline

1649: March

1649: March

Parliament abolishes the Monarchy and the House of Lords

Rump announces they will dissolve themselves and hold elections (they don’t)

1649: May 14-15

Leveller mutiny defeated

1649: July

Cromwell departs for Ireland

1650: June

Cromwell returns from Ireland

1650: July

Cromwell leads army into Scotland

1650: September

Battle of Dunbar

1651: September

Battle of Worcester

1653: April

Cromwell expels Rump

1653: July

Barebone’s Parliament opens

1653: December

Barebone’s Parliament resigns

Cromwell installed as Lord Protector

1649: May

England becomes a Commonwealth

1652

Anglo-Dutch war

1646: May

Charles I surrenders to the Scots at Newcastle

1646: June

End of the 1st Civil War with surrender of Oxford

1646: July

Newcastle Propositions sent by parliament to the king

1646: October

Episcopacy abolished by parliamentary ordinance

1647: February

Scots hand Charles I over to parliament

1647: May

Army defies orders and disband

Charles I responds to the Newcastle Propositions

1647: June

Army seizes the King and begins independent negotiations

1647: July

Power struggle between parliament, the king, and the army

1647: August

Heads of Proposals presented to Charles

1647: Oct-Nov

Putney Debates

Case of the Army Truly Stated

Agreement of the People

1647: November

Charles I escapes NMA custody and flees to the Isle of Wight

1647: December 26

Charles I signs the Engagement with the Scots

1648: January

Parliament breaks off negotiations with the king

• Vote of ‘No Address’

1648: April-July

Risings in support of Charles I

1648: August

Battle of Preston

1648: November

Army Remonstrance

1648: December

Pride’s Purge

1649: Jan 20-27

Trial of Charles I

1649: Jan 30

Execution of Charles I

1648: September

Parliament withdraw their vote of ‘No Address’