Stuarts Key Dates - Charles + Civil War - Year version

Becomes King

1625

Marries HM

1625

Failure in Cadiz

1625

Forced Loan

1626

York House Conference

1626

Expedition to Rhé

1627

Declared war on France

1627

5 knights case

1627

Failure of the La Rochelle expedition

1627

Charles accepts Petition of Right

1628

Buckingham assassinated

1628

Treaty of Susa ends war with France

1629

Dissolution of 3rd Parliament - Personal Rule begins

1629

Treaty of Madrid ends war with Spain

1630

Wentworth becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland

1632

Charles visits Scotland (first time since coronation in England) and is crowned King

1633

Laud becomes ABoC

1633

St. Gregory's Case (communion tables moved to the East End

1633

Ship money levied nationwide

1635

Riot in Edinburgh due to new prayer book

1637

Hampden's Trial

1637

Trial of Prynne, Burton, and Burwick

1637

Covenant in Scotland leads to war

1638

Scottish General Assembly abolishes Bishops

1638

First Bishops War

1639

Treaty of Burwick ends the war

1639

Return of Wentworth who became the Earl of Strafford

1639

Short Parliament

1640

New Canons issued by convocation

1640

2nd Bishops War

1640

Treaty of Ripon ends the war

1640

Long Parliament

1640

Root and Branch petition

1640

Trial of Strafford (March), execution (May)

1641

Act preventing Parliament being dissolved without its permission

1641

10 Propositions

1641

News of Irish Rebellion

1641

Grand Remonstrance

1641

5 Members Incident

1642

Charles left London

1642

19 Propositions (Parl gave itself executive power)

1642

Civil War (first = battle of edgehill)

1642

Solemn League and Covenant

1643

Self-denying Ordinance

1645

NMA created

1645

Royalists defeated at Naseby

1645

Charles surrenders to the Scots

1646

Charles' Engagement with the Scots

1647

Army's seizure of the King

1647

Heads of Proposal

1647

Agreement of the People

1647

Putney Debates

1647

Second Civil War

1648

Trial of Charles

1648

Pride's Purge

1648