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Death of Elizabeth
Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603 in Richmond Palace, Richmond, London, United Kingdom. She left no heirs and the crown of England and Ireland passed on to James VI of ScotlandElizabeth died on March 24, 1603 in Richmond Palace, Richmond, London, United Kingdom. She left no heirs and the crown of England and Ireland passed on to James VI of Scotland -
Gunpowder Plot
Robert Catesby and a group of English Catholics attempted to assassinate James I after they became disappointed at his failure to ssecure greater rights nd religious tolerance for Catholics. The ir plan was to destroy the House of Lords, which failed when Guy Fawkes was discovered with 36 barrels of gunpowder. -
Jamestown
Jamestown is established as the first permanent English colony in the new world. -
The marriage of James' daughter Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V.
Elizabeth and Frederick were married and would soon become the king and queen of Bohemia, leaading to the Thirty Years War. Despite his daughter's involvement. James avoided entering the Thirty Years War and most other continental conflicts. -
Parliment and new taxes
Parliment met for the first time in four years to voice their anger at new taxes levied by James I. The parliment is dissolved in June by James. -
Parliment Meets
Parliment meets for the first time since 1614. They arrest Francis Bacon on 23 counts of corruption. Bacon is freed by James I a few months later. -
Charles I
Following the death of James I vharles is declared king of England. -
Parliment and Customs Duties
Parliment opposes Charles I plan to implement control over customs duties. Parliment claimed it was their right to decide and gave Charles a one year limit over customs control. -
Petition of Right
Parliment and Charles I fought over what to do about the Thirty Years War. Charles wanted funds to fight and pwhen Parliment refused he began gathering forced loans and arresting those who refused to pay. The House of Commons and The House of Lords banded together to pressure Charles into signing the Petition which contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law -
Bishops' War
The Bishops' Wars were conflicts centred on the nature of the governance of the Church of Scotland, and the rights and powers of the Crown. They are often considered a prelude to the English Civil Wars. They were so named due to the central conflict between Charles I, who favoured an episcopal system of church gove -
Triennial Act
The Triennial Act (1641) was a law that required parliament to meet for at least a fifty year period every three years. The purpose was to prevent the monarch from ruling without a parliament. -
Start of English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a conflict between the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers) over whether ultimate power should reside with the parliament or the king. -
Commonwealth of England
England is declared a commonwealth to be run by parliment and Council of State. The third phase of the English Civil War begins following the declaration as anti-parliment forces continue fighting in Ireland and Scotland. -
End of the English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) ends with Parliment having Supreme control following the execution of Charles 1 and the exile of Charles 2. -
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Ireland, and Scotland following the dissolution of the Commonwealth of England’s ruling Rump council. His reign is that of a military dictatorshipwith his army keeping order in the Commonwealth. -
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60)
The Anglo-Spanish War(1654-1660) was a war between England and Spain over economic and colonial disputes. The war used large use of privateering and England invaded some of the islands in the Caribbean. in 1657, after forming an alliance with France, England signed a deal with France merging the Anglo-Spanish war with the Franco-Spanish warm, putting most of the action in the Spanish Netherlands. -
Richard Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell died and his son Richard became Lord Protecctor of the Commonwealth of England. -
Restoration
Charles entered London and took up the Convention Parliment's offer of the English throne. -
The Great Fire
A giant that destroyed and killed up to a sisth of London's population (80,000 people). A rumor that the fire was started by a French watchmaker led to theories of a Catholic Conspiracy attempting to destroy Protestantism. -
Secret Treaty of Dover
The treaty says that England and France were to defeat and take over the Dutch (Third Anglo-Dutch War) at which point Charles II would return England to Catholocism with the support of France. The plan was foiled when parliment refused to fund the war and Charles was forced to agree. -
Popish Plot
Titus Oates fabricates evidence of a plot between Catholic nobles and Catholic organizations like the Jesuists to kill Charles II. Anti-Catholic hysteria gripped England along with Scotland and all Catholics were ordered to leave London. -
The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution (1688) was the overthrow of king James II by a group of English parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William the third of Orange-Nassau. some of the reasons of the conflict was that James was Catholic, advocated religious tolerance, and had close ties with France. The revolution ended any chance of catholicism re-establishing in England.
