Charles II entire timeline: 1660-1688

1660

Convention Parliament dissolves

Act of Indemnity and Oblivion passed

1661

Failed fifth monarchist rebellion led to establishment of Cavalier parliament

Militia bill - King has full control of army

Savoy conference fails to find religious settlement

Corporation act passed

1662

Quaker act

Act of uniformity 

Licensing Act 

Hearth tax added to royal income

1st Dec of Indul issued but Parliament forced its suspension

1663

Thomas Sheldon (Arminian) made Archbishop of Canterbury

1664

Act of Uniformity leads to ejection of 1400 clergymen

Conventicle Act passed

Weaker version of triennial act passed

George Fox is imprisoned

1665

Second Anglo-Dutch War begins

Great Plague hit London

5 mile Act passed

1666

Great fire of London

George Fox relased

1667

Earl of Clarendon replaced by CABAL

Second Anglo-Dutch ends

Conventicle act expires

1668

James announces conversion to Catholicism

1669

Richard Franklin (Presbyterian) who was ejected, founds an academy to educate potential clergy

Failed attempt to revise the Settlement Act to make it comprehensible

1670

Treaty of Dover - Support France in war vs Dutch

Second Conventicle Act

1672

2nd Dec of Indul

Stop of the exchequer

Treaty of Dover forces Charles to begin 3rd Anglo-Dutch war

1673

Charles forced to recall Parliament who forced him to remove Dec of Induland pass the Test Act

CABAL begins to break Clifford and James are forced to resign

James marries Mary of Modena

1675

Charles makes a 2nd secret treaty with France promising to dissolve his Parliament if they become hostile towards France, Charles would receive money in return

1677

3rd Anglo-Dutch war ends

Mary marries William of Orange

1678

Popish Plot - Oates

Parliament seek to impeach Danby

1679

Charles dissolves Cavalier Parliament, but new Parliament is majorly anti-Danby - Whigs

Whigs and Tories established

Parliament pass exclusion bill but Charles then dissolves it

1680

New parliament passes second Exclusion Bill but was defeated in the Lords

1681

3rd parliament called in Oxford but closed down after a week after attempting to pass a 3rd Exclusion Bill

Charles is now financially independent and Shaftesbury is arrested for treason

1683

Rye House Plot fails and is used to arrest many leading Whigs

1684

Parliament is not recalled in violation of Triennial Act 

Charles II dies and is succeeded by his brother, James II

1685

Charles II dies and is succeeded by his brother James II

Monmouth uprising easily crushed

James receives generous financial settlement from Parliament

James issues personal dispensations to allow Catholics to become army officers

Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes

1686

Godden v Hales legally declares James is able to issue dispensations whenever he wishes

James instructs bishops to forbid the preaching of anti-Catholic sermon

1687

James issues a new Dec of Indul

1688

James re-issues Dec of Indul and orders it to be read in all parishes

Seven bishops oppose James’ Dec of Indul and put on trial - found not guilty

James’ wife gives birth to James’ son

Immortal 7 invite William of Orange to England

William brings army to England- James’ army deserts hi mand he flees England without England without fighting