Ultimate Stuarts Timeline

Created by

Beth

Cards (45)

1603
March - Accession of James I
April - Millinery Petition presented to James
December - Execution of Bye and Main Plotters
1604 
January - Hampton Court conference
August - Treaty of London with Spain
September - New canons (laws) for Church of England
December - Richard Bancroft made Archbishop of Canterbury
1605 
November - Gunpowder Plot discovered
1606 
July - Bates' case
1608 
March - New Books of Rates and Impositions levied
1610 
November - Great Contract rejected
1611 
Authorised version of the Bible published
May - George Abbott made Archbishop of Canterbury
1613 
February - Marriage of Elizabeth and Frederick of the Palatinate
1614 
December - Cockayne's Project - the idea to use fully finished cloth instead of exporting unfinished cloth to the Netherlands to try and raise money. Failed
1618 
May - Outbreak of the Thirty Years War
Book of Sports issued
1621 
March - Cranfield made Lord Treasurer
November - William Laud made Bishop of St David's
December - Protestation of the Commons
1623 
February - Buckingham and Charles travel to Madrid
1624 
June - Marriage of Charles and the French princess Henrietta Maria
1625 
March - Death of James
December - Failure of the expedition to Cadiz
1626 
September - Forced loan levied
1627 
October - Failure of expedition to La Rochelle
November - Five Knights' case
1628 
June - Charles accepted Petition of Right
August - Assassination of Buckingham
1629 
March - Dissolution of parliament, the Three Resolutions
1632 
January - Wentworth appointed Deputy Lord of Ireland
1633 
August - Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
1634 
October - First writs issued for ship money
1635 
June - Ship money levied on the whole country
1637 
June - Prynne, Bastwick, Burton punished for writing against Bishops
July - Riots in Edinburgh over new Prayer Book
November - Trial of John Hampden over refusal to pay ship money
1638 
February - National Covenant drawn up in Scotland
1639 
June - First Bishops' War
September - Return of Wentworth from Ireland
1640
April - Short Parliament meets
August - Second Bishops' War
October - Treaty of Ripon
November - Long Parliament meets
December - Impeachment of royal ministers
1641 
February - Triennial Act
May - Execution of Strafford
October - Outbreak of Irish Rebellion
November - Grand Remonstrance passed
1642 
January - Attempted arrest of five MPs by Charles
March - Militia Ordinance passed
June - Charles rejects Nineteen Propositions
August - Charles raises his standard at Nottingham
October - Battle of Edgehill
November - Royal forces halted at Turnham Green
1643 
September - Royal advance on London stopped
- Solemn League and Covenant between Parliament and the Scots
1644 
July - Battle of Marston Moor
1645 
February - Creation of the New Model Army
April - Self-Denying Ordinance
June - Battle of Naseby
1646 
May - Charles surrenders to the Scots at Newcastle
June - Surrender of Oxford, end of the First Civil War
July - Parliament sends Charles the Newcastle Propositions
1647 
February - Scots hand over Charles to Parliament
June - Army seize Charles and start independent negotiations
August - Heads of Proposals presented to Charles
October/ November - Putney Debates
December - Charles signs the Engagement with the Scots
1648 
January - Parliament ends negotiations with Charles
August - Battle of Preston
November - Army Remonstrance
December - Pride's Purge
1649 
January - Trial and execution of Charles
March - Monarchy and Lords abolished
May - Leveller mutiny defeated
- England becomes a Commonwealth
July - Cromwell to Ireland
1650 
June - Cromwell returns from Ireland
July - Cromwell leads army to Scotland
1651 
September - Battle of Worcester
1653
April - Rump expelled
July - Barebone's Parliament opens
December - Barebone's Parliament resigns, Cromwell made Lord Protector
1654 
September - First Protectorate Parliament
1655 
March - Penruddock's Rising
August - Introduction of the rule of the Major Generals until January 1657