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1642: Edgehill, the first pitched battle.
The first big battle happened on the 23rd of October, 13,000 to 14,000 on each side. Around 1,000 soilders lost their lives and the King continued onto London but was stopped. -
1643: The conflict grows.
The parliament proposed a plan to the king, which of course he rejected. They eventually went onto fighting small forces in regional areas, around 150,000 people were involved. The Royal side gained power over certain places including the important port of Bristol. -
1644: The tide begins to turn.
The king made an agreement with the Irish Catholics to put a stop to Irish Rebellion. Irish troops were now in favour of the Royalists during the conflict. The king used Catholic troops as a 'counter-productive'. A 22,000 powerful Scottish Army crossed a bored to assit the Parliament. By the end of 1644, the parliament owned the North. -
1645-6: The Parliament is victorious.
Wow, how shocking! The Parliament propsed another plan to the king and what did he do !!REJECT IT!! Anyways another battle took place 15,000 on Fairfax and roughly 9,000-10,000 on the kings side. The Parliament won. -
1646-8: Political Manoeuvrs.
Fighting has ended but a search for political and religious settlements made way through 1646-8. The king wenton for sometime rejecting every proposal propsed. -
1648: The second Civil War.
Fighting continued and many royalists started orginating in discontent over taxes.The events of 1648 mark the end of Parliamentarian negotiation. The army lost power and upcoming leaders were being executed.and something known as the 'prides purge' occured. -
1649: The unthinkable act.
The monarch was put on trial in Westminster Hall by the Rump Parliament, which established a high court. He was found guilty of seeking to'maintain in himself an unlimited and despotic power to rule according to his will, and to usurp the people's rights and liberties.The king was sentenced to death by the court, which performed the unthinkable. On the 30th of January 1649, he was beheaded in Whitehall. -
1649-51: The third Civil War
The Scots Parliament opposed Charles I's execution and began discussions with the king's son, Prince Charles. He was invited to join the Covenant and commit to the Presbyterian religion in England. Parliament had launched a new campaign in Ireland with Cromwell in command late in 1649. Charles required an army. Prince Charles accepted the Covenant after Cromwell's success in Ireland, and he arrived in Scotland in June 1650. (but was not crowned as king until 1 January 1651). -
1649-60: The Commonwealth of Engand.
The period between 1649 and 1660 is often called the Interregnum, when no monarch ruled. -
1660: The return of the king,
Parliament established a Committee of Safety in May 1659, which led to the formation of a new Council of State. However, there was a power vacuum, and General George Monck, the commander of English soldiers in Scotland and a Royalist sympathiser, stepped into it. In February 1660, Monck enabled the moderate Presbyterian MPs who had been expelled during Pride's Purge in 1648 to return to Parliament. By 29 May, Charles II was in London – a king had returned.