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Jan 24, 1540
Production of Coal increased
Production of coal increased by fourteen-fold between 1540 and 1680 and brought England ahead of other countries. This benifited gentry and merchants. -
Elizabeth I dies
Her succesor James Stuart takes over.
James I thought that he had unlimited power. Gentry opposed his royal authorities. -
Confrontation continues
During the 1620's There is confrontation between the Parliament and the king and it worsens During the rein of James I's son Charles I. Parliment had a meeting and open challenge to the crown in The Petition of Right. The petition demanded an end to imprisonment without cause shown. -
Government tried to repress religious dissent
Government tried to repress religious dissent . Non Puritain and Puritains felt that the monarchy was leading the country astray. Parliament belived the government needed restored. -
The Long Parliament
Scots occupied most of northern england. Charles was forced to summon another parliament meeting. This sat for thirteen years, getting the name The Long Pariament. In the years it got rid of some royal courts like the star chamber. In the other years they delt with religeous causes. -
Civil war underway
by the late 1642 both royalists and the anti-royalists had assembled armies because of Charles tried to arrest five leaders of the commons, and supposivly plotted treason with the Scots. -
Naseby
Cromwell's New Model Army won a major victory at Naseby and a year later Charles I surrendered. Cromwell was the most important leader of the independants in Parliament. The next two years were catholic. Presbyterians and Independants questioned what to do with the king, and finally civil war continued. -
The King's Fate
Independants abolish the House of Lords and removed all Presbyterians from the House of Commons. With Cromwell's approval the Commons decided that their monarch was untrustworthy and a troublemaker and that the king would have to die. The king was executed in 1649 by his subjects. Oliver Cromwell became the master of England..... -
Crown offered
in 1656 Parliament offered Oliver Cromwell the crown. He refused but took the title of "His Highness" and ensured that the succesion would go to his son Richard
