English Civil War Timeline

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    THe First Civil War

  • Protestation against popery

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    The Civil War

  • Royal Family leaves London

    Parliament forces the King and royal family to leave London.

  • King refuses to surrender control of Militia to Parliament

  • First battle at Edgehill

  • Battle of Braddock Down

    Sir Ralph Hopton defeats Colonel Ruthven and secures Cornwall for the King.

  • Battle of Roundway Down

    Sir William Waller's Western Association army destroyed.

  • Prince Rupel defeats Bristol

  • The King's army besieges Gloucester.

  • The Earl of Newcastle besieges Hull.

  • First Battle of Newbury

    the Earl of Essex fights his way back to London.

  • Death of John Pym.

  • The Scottish invasion

    the Army of the Covenant crosses the River Tweed and marches into England.

  • Sir William Waller defeats ...

    Sir William Waller defeats Lord Forth and Lord Hopton at the battle of Cheriton; Parliament's first decisive victory of the war.

  • Battle of Montgomery:

    Parliamentarians gain control of central Wales.

  • Second battle of Newbury

    Parliamentarian commanders bickering.

  • Execution of Archbishop Laud.

  • New Model Army

    New Model Army Ordinance passed by the House of Lords.

  • Prince Rupert storms Leicester.

  • King Charles surrenders

    King Charles surrenders to the Covenanter army at Newark.
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    The Second Civil War

  • The Scots surrender the King to Parliament.

  • Riots

    Riots in London, Ipswich and Canterbury against Parliament's suppression of Christmas celebrations.

  • Battle at Prestons

    This was the very last battle of the civil war

  • King Charles Beheaded