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Time Line Of The House Of Stuart

1603 - 1685 Commonwealth ( declared 1649 )

	Previous Time Line
1603	Accession of James the First, ( who died 1625 ).
	Millenary Petition.
	Mayflower sails to America
1604	Parliament claims to deal with both Church and State.
	England make peace with Spain (treaty of London); Hampton Court Conference (king, bishops, Puritans)
	Marlowe's Dr Faustus is published posthumously
1605	Gunpowder Plot, the last major Catholic conspiracy
	Bacons Advancement of Learning.
1606-7	Failure of James's plans for union of kingdoms
1607	Settlement of Virginia
1609	Rebellion of the Northern Earls in Ireland; beginnings of the Planting of Ulster by Scots and English Protestants
1610	Failure of Cecil's Great Contract (reform of royal finance)
	The Plantation of Ulster Robert
	(Anglican-Puritan co-operation)
	Parliament's Petition of Grievances
1611	Publication of Authorised Version of the Holy Bible.
1612	Death of Prince Henry, James's promising elder son
	Shakespeare first play the Tempest is published
1613	Marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Elector Palatine, Protestant zealot, enmeshed Britain in continental politics
1614	Flint quarrels with the Parliament
	Sir, Walter Raleigh's History of the World is published
1616	Trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset,
	Dismissal of Chief Justice Coke.
	Death of Shakspere.
1617-29	Ascendancy of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham
1617	Bacon Lord Keeper.
	George Villiers is created Duke of Buckingham
	Proposals for the Spanish Marriage.
	The Declaration of Sports.
1617 - 1618	Expedition and death of Ralegh.
1618	Beginning of Thirty Years War.
	Bacon is created Lord Chancellor
	Raleigh is executed
1619-22	lnigo Jones designs the Banqueting House, the first major royal public building since the reign of HenryVIII
1619	William Harvey discovers the circulation of the blood
1620	Pilgrim Fathers inaugurate religious migration sail to Massachusetts New England
	Invasion of the Palatinate.
	Landing of the Pilgrim.Fathers in New England.
1621	Bacon's " Novum Organum " - impeachment of Bacon.
	James tears out the Protestation of the Commons.
1622-23	Prince Charles and Buckingham go to Spain to woo the king's daughter and are rebuffed
1623	Journey of Prince Charles to Madrid.
1624-30	War with Spain
1624	Resolve of War against Spain.
	Lord Treasurer Cranfield is impeached
1625	Death of James the First.; Accession of Charles the First (who died 1649).
	Charles I marriage to Henrietta Maria, sister of Louis XIII of France
	First Parliament dissolved.
	Failure of expedition against Cadiz
1626	Buckingham impeached.
	Second Parliament dissolved.
1627	Levy of Benevolence and Forced Loan.
	Failure of expedition to Rochelle.
	The Crown Wins the Five Knights Case
1628	Charles I accepts the Petition of Right.
	Buckingham it assassinated
	Murder of Buckingham. - Laud Bishop of London
1626-9	War with France
1628	Petition of Right; publication of Harvey's work on the circulation of the blood; assassination of Buckingham
1629	Dissolution of Third Parliament.by Charles I, determines to govern without one
	Charter granted to Massachusetts .
	Wentworth Lord President of the North.
1630	Puritan Emigration to New England (Massachusetts)
1633	William Laud Laud Archbishop of Canterbury
	Wentworth Lord Deputy in Ireland .
	Milton's " Allegro " and " Penseroso ". - Prynne's " Histrio-mastix ."
	Thomas Wentworth (later Earl of Strafford) becomes Deputy of Ireland
1634-40	Ship Money case
1634	Miltons " Comus. "
	Juxon Lord Treasurer.
1636	Book of Cannon and Common Prayer issuued for Scotland
	Hampden refuses to pay Ship-money
1637	Trial of Hampden case supports Charles l's claim to collect Ship Money
	Revolt of Edinburgh . -
1637-40	Breakdown of Charles's government of Scotland and two attempts to impose his will by force
1638	Milton's " Lycidas "
	The Scotch Covenant.
1639	Leslie at Dunse Law . - Pacification of Berwick
1640	Charles I summons the Long Parliament, Nov. - Pym leader of the Commons
	Strafford, Laud, and Lord keeper Finch are impeached
	The Short Parliament.
	The Bishops' War. - Great Council of Peers at York,
1641	Execution of Strafford, May.
	Remodelling of government in England and Scotland; abolition of conciliar courts, abolition of
	prerogative taxation, Charles I accepts the Triennial Bill .
	King's attempt on the Five Members; his withdrawal from London; the 19 Propositions; the resort of arms:
	Civil War
	Charles visits Scotland. - Hyde organizes royalist party.
	The Irish Massacre, Oct.
	The Grand Remonstrance, Nov.
	Catholic rebellion breaks out in Ireland the rebellion of Ulster Catholics
1642	Impeachment of Five Members, Jan.
	Pym Hampden, Haselrig, Holles and Strode escape arrest in Parliament .
	Civil War begins, The royal family flees from London
	Charles before Hull, April - Royalists withdraw from Parliament.
	Charles raises Standard at Nottingham August 22.
	Hobbes writes the " De Cive."
	The battle of Edgehill is fought Oct. 23
1643	King's armies prosper; Scots invade on side of Parliament
	Assembly of Divines at Westminster.
	Rising of the Cornishmen, May.
	Death of Hampden, June. - Battle of Roundway, July, - Siege of Gloucester, Aug. - Death of Falkland, Sept
	Charles negotiates with Irish Catholics.
	Taking of the Covenant, Sept. 25 .
1644	Parliamentary armies prosper, especially in the decisive battle of the war,
	Fight at Cropredy Bridge, June
	Oliver Cromwell defeats Prince Rupert at the Battle of Marston, Moor July 2.
	Surrender of ParliamentaryArmy in Cornwall, Sept. 2.
	Battle of Tippermuir, Sept.2
	Battle of Newbury, Oct.
	Milton's " Areopagitica ".
1645	'Clubmen' risings of armed neutrals threaten both sides; Royalist armies disintegrate, but parliamentary
	forces reorganized (New Model raised ).
	The Self-Denying Ordinance is passed, April
	Cromwell defeats the Royalists at the battle of Naseby, June 14. - Battle of Philiphaugh, Sept
	Laud is executed
1646	The Civil War ends, Charles surrenders to the Scots, May.
	Bishops and Book of Common Prayer abolished, Presbyterian Church established
1647	Army revolt; radical movements criticize parliamentary tyranny; king prevaricates
	Scots surrender Charles to the Houses Jan. 30.
	Army elects Agitators, April.
	Charles I seized at Holmby House, June
	" Humble Representation " of the Army June.
	Expulsion of the Eleven Members.
	Army occupies London, Aug..
	Flight of the King, Nov.
	Secret Treaty of Charles with the Scots, Dec.
	Charles I wins Scottish support
1648	Second Civil War: Scots now side with the king and are defeated by Cromwell at Preston;
	provincial risings (Kent, Colchester, South Wales, Yorks., etc.) crushed
	Outbreak of the Royalist Revolt, Feb.
	Revolt of the Fleet, and of Kent, May.
	Fairfax and Cromwell in Essex and Wales, June - July.
	Battle of Preston, Aug. 17. - Surrender of Colchester, Aug. 17.
	Prides Purge, Dec.
	Royal Society begins at Oxford
1649	Trial and Execution of Charles 1., Jan. 30.
	Scotland claims Charles II. King.
	England declared a Commonwealth
	Cromwell crushes the Irish rebels Drogheda, massacre Sept.11.
1649-1653	Government by sovereign single-chamber assembly, 'Rump' Parliament thoroughly purged of royalists and
	moderates
1650	Cromwell enters Scotland. - defeats the Scots at battle of Dunbar, Sept.
1651	Cromwell defeats Charles (II) at battle of Worcester, Sept. 3.
1651	Thomas Hobbes's " Leviathan " published
1652	Union with Scotland.
	The Act of Settlement for Ireland passed
	Outbreak of Dutch War, May.
	Victory of Tromp, Nov.
1653	Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, ( who died 1638 ).
	Victory of Blake Feb. - Cromwell drives out the Parliament, April 20.
	Constituent Convention (Barebones Parliament), July.
	Convention dissolves, Dec.
	The Instrument of Government.
1654	Peace concluded with Holland. - First Protectorate Parliament, Sept.
1655 - 1660	War with Spain
1655	Dissolution of the Parliament, Jan.
	Government by Major-Generals is tried .
	Royalist insurrection (Penruddock's rising) is a complete failure
	Settlement of Scotland and Ireland.
	Settlement of the Church.
	Blake in the Mediterranean.
	War with Spain and Conquest of Jamaica.
1656	Second Protectorate Parliament, Sept.
1657	Instrument of Government replaced by a parliamentary paper constitution, the Humble Petition and Advice;
	Cromwell rejects the Crown
	Nominates his own House of Lords
	Blake's victory at Santa Crux. Cromwell refuses title of King.
	Act of Government.
1658	Parliament dissolved, Feb. Battle of the Dunes. Capture of Dunkirk.
	Cromwell dies ( Sep 3 ), and is succeeded by his son Richard Cromwell, ( who died 1712 ).
1659	Third Protectorate Parliament..
	Richard Cromwell resigns and the Commonwealth is re-established
	Parliament dissolved.
	Long Parliament recalled.
	Long Parliament again driven out.
	Richard overthrown by the army; Rump restored but displeases many in the army
1660	The Restoration of Charles the Second, lands at Dover, May, restored as King ( who died 1685)
1660	Monk enters London.
	The " Convention " Parliament
	Union of Scotland and Ireland undone.
1661	Cavalier Parliament begins.
	Charles II assents to the Corporation Act
1662	Church of England restored;
	Act of Uniformity re-enacted. Puritan clergy driven out.
	Royal Society at London receives its Charter
1663	Failure of first royal attempt to grant religious toleration
	Dispensing Bill fails.
1664	Conventicle Act
	The Triennial Act it repealed
1665 - 1667	Second Dutch War begins
	Five Mile Act.
	The Great Plague of London.
	Newton', Theory of Fluxions.
1666	The Great Fire of London virtually destroys the City
1667	Plague final major outbreak London
1667	John Milton's Paradise Lost published
	The Dutch in the Medway.
	Dismissal of Clarendon.
	Peace of Breda.
	Lewis attacks Flanders.
1668	The Triple Alliance.
	Peace of Aix-la -Chapelle
	Ashley shrinks back from toleration to Catholics.
1670	Treaty of Dover.
	Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress " written
1671	Milton's " Paradise Regained" and " Samson Agonistes."
	Newton's Theory of Light.
1672 - 1673	Failure of second royal attempt to grant religious toleration
1672	Closing of the Exchequer.
	Declaration of Indulgence.
	Ashley made Chancellor.
1673	Declaration of Indulgence withdrawn.
	The Test Act receives royal assent
	Shaftesbury dismissed.
	Shaftesbury takes the lead of the Country Party.
1672 - 1674	Third War begins with Holland.
1674	Grain bounties introduced (England self-sufficient in food)
	Bill of Protestant Securities fails.
	Charles makes Peace with Holland, - Danby Lord Treasurer.
1675	Treaty of mutual aid between Charles and Lewis.
	Sir Christopher Wren begins St Paul's
1677	Shaftesbury sent to the Tower.
	Bill for Security Of the Church fails.
	Address of the Houses for War with France.
	Prince of Orange marries Mary.
1678	John Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress, " part I, published
	The Popish Plot is uncovered
	Peace of Nimeguen.
	Titus Oases invents the Popish Plot ;
1679	New Parliament meets.
	Fall of Danby.
	New Ministry with Shaftesbury at its head.
	Temple's plan for a new Council.
	Habeas Corpus Act passed. - Exclusion Bill introduced.
	Parliament dissolved.
	Shaftesbury dismissed .
	Whig and Tory parties form
1680	Committee for agitation formed
	Monmouth pretends to the throne.
	Petitioners and Abhorrers.
	Exclusion Bill thrown out by the Lords, the Exclusion Crisis;
	Trial of Lord Stafford.
1679-81	Emergence of Whig and Tory parties
1681	Parliament at Oxford. Treaty with France.
	Limitation Bill rejected.
	Shaftesbury and Monmouth attested.
1682	Conspiracy and flight of Shaftesbury.
	Penn founds Pennsylvania.
1683	Death of Shaftesbury.
	Rye-house Plot. - Execution of Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney.
1683	The Rye House Plot; Whigs proscribed
1684	Town charters quashed. - Army increased.
1685	Charles the Second dies, accession of King James the Second .
	Rebellion by Charles II's Protestant bastard, the duke of Monmouth, fails
	Continues