History - Charles I timeline (1625-40)

December 1625

Cadiz expedition failure

September 1626

forced loan levied

October 1627

La Rochelle expedition failed

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

Hampden trial

February 1638

National Covenant drawn up in Scotland

June 1639

First Bishops’ War

September 1639

Return of Wentworth from Ireland