English time line

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  • James I takes the throne

    He became King of Scots as James VI on 24 July 1567, when he was just thirteen months old, succeeding his mother Mary, Queen of Scots. Regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1581. On 24 March 1603, as James I, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died without issue.

  • Charles I signs the Petition of Right

    Having dissolved Parliament, and unable to raise money without it, the king assembled a new one in 1628. The new Parliament drew up the Petition of Right, and Charles accepted it as a concession in order to get his subsidy. Amongst other things, the Petition referred to the Magna Carta.

  • Charles I faces rebellion in Scotland

    Scotland rebels agianst Charles l

  • English civil war

    was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists

  • Oliver Cromwell abolishes Parliament

  • Oliver Cromwell invades Ireland

    Cromwell led a Parliamentary invasion of Ireland from 1649–50

  • Charles I is tried for treason and hanged

    In December 1648, those MPs who wished to continue negotiations with the king were prevented from sitting by a troop of soldiers headed by Colonel Thomas Pride, an episode soon to be known as Pride's Purge.

  • Charles II is restored to the throne

    Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, which made known the conditions of his acceptance of the crown of England.

  • Habeas Corpus is passed

    The procedure for the issuing of writs of habeas corpus was first codified by the Habeas Corpus Act 1679

  • James II comes to the throne

    He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

  • Glorious Revolution occurs

    also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England.

  • English Bill of Rights is signed

    The Declaration of Right was later embodied into English Law as "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown" which was passed into law on 16th December 1689.