history time line

  • Feb 8, 1533

    Zach Mason

    Zach mason robert
  • Feb 8, 1534

    1534 the Act of Supremacy named the king as the head of the Church of England

  • Feb 9, 1558

    when marry died in 1558 Eliizabeth was crown queen

  • Feb 10, 1558

    Tension developed between Parliament and the queen when Parliament pressured her to marry so that she would have an heir to the throne

  • Feb 11, 1558

    A major reason for Elizabeth’s good relationship with Parliament was her willingness to let the members speak their minds without fear of punishment

  • Apr 8, 1558

    While Elizabeth was clearly in charge she had some difficulty keeping her subjects from questioning her actions.

  • the Tudor’ success with Parliament was not repeated by their successors When Elizabeth I died in 1603, a relative of the Tudors from Scotland became king. James I was the first member of the Stuart dynasty to rule in England

  • When James I died in 1625, his younger son was crowned king as Charles I

  • Charles summoned Parliament to request money

  • Charles dismissed Parliament and in 1629 decided to rule without consulting Parliament ever again

  • Charles was in bad debt

  • the English Civil War began

  • Cromwell contiuide to raise in power

  • first European monarch to be formally tried and sentenced to death by a court of law

  • romwell was given the title Lord Protector of England

  • Parliament invited the son of the dead Charles