Stuarts Timeline

1603

James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland on the death of Elizabeth I

1603

Millenary Partition

1604

Hampton Court Conference

1604

Bancroft becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

1604

Treaty of London ends war with Spain

1605

Gunpowder Plot

1606

Failure of James' plan for a union of England and Scotland

1606

Bates' Case

1608

Cecil appointed Lord Treasurer

1610

Failure of the Great Contract

1611

Abbot becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

1611

Kings James Bible published

1613

Marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V

1614

Cockayne Project

1616

Emergence of Buckingham as favourite of James I

1618

Outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in Europe

1619

Buckingham appointed Lord High Admiral

1621

Lionel Cranfield appointed Lord Treasurer

1621

James I tears Protestation out of Commons Journal

1623

Prince Charles and Buckingham go on the Madrid Trip

1624

Monopolies Act

1625

Charles I crowned king

1625

Charles I marries Henrietta-Maria of France

1625

Buckingham's unsuccessful expedition to Cadiz

1626

Forced Loan

1626

York House Conference

1627

Charles declares war on France

1627

Five Knights' Case

1627

Buckingham failed La Rochelle expedition

1628

Assassination of Buckingham

1628

Petition of Right

1629

Treaty of Susa ends war with France

1629

Food riots

1630

Treaty of Madrid ends war with Spain

1631

Book of Orders

1633

William Laud made Archbishop of Canterbury

1633

St Gregory's Case

1635

Extension of Ship Money as a national rate

1637

Outbreak of Scottish Rebellion - the start of the British Civil Wars

1637

Trial of Prynne, Burton and Bastwick

1638

Hampden's Case ends

1640

Root and Branch Petition

1641

Irish Rebellion

1641

Iconoclasm

1641

Trial and execution of Wentworth

1641

Grand Remonstrance

1642

Outbreak of civil War in England

1643

Solemn League and Covenant

1644

Creation of New Model Army

1646

Defeat of Charles I in First Civil War

1647

Politicisation of New Model Army

1648

Defeat of Charles in Second Civil War

1648

Windsor Prayer Meeting

1649

Regicide of Charles I

1649

Cromwell leads invasion of Ireland

1649

First Digger Community

1650

Cromwell leads invasion of Scotland

1651

Navigation Act

1651

Forced Union of England and Scotland

1652

First Dutch War begins

1653

Nominated Assembly

1653

Oliver Cromwell made Lord Protector

1655

Rule of the Major-Generals starts

1656

Nayler Case

1657

Offer of Crown to Cromwell

1658

Death of Oliver Cromwell

1660

Restoration of monarchy; Charles II crowned

1661

Venner's Rising

1662

Act of Uniformity

1665

Second Dutch War

1665

Plague

1666

Great Fire of London

1667

Removal of Clarendon

1670

Secret Treaty of Dover

1672

Stop of the Exchequer

1672

Third Dutch War

1673

Test Act; Duke of York's Catholicism becomes public knowledge

1678-83

Exclusion Crisis

1685

James II becomes king

1686

Godden v. Hales

1688

Glorious Revolution; William III becomes king

1689

Bill of Rights

1690

Battle of the Boyne

1693

Land Tax

1694

Bank of England established

1694

Death of Mary

1697

Treaty of Ryswick ends Nine Years War

1701

Act of Settlement; Death of William III