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King James took the thrown in Scottland, before taking power over England
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KIng Charles the first is born, son of King James
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Start of Stuart Era in England
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James was the sixth ruler of Scottland though when king Henry died, he didnt have a son to continue the rule. The royal blood line was then traced back to James and therefor he became James the first of England.
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A plot by Guy Fox and his accomplices for try and blow up Parliament. The Roman catholics were upset that King James ( protestant) was not giving the catholics any rights. Unfortunatly they got caught when a letter was sent to a priest warning him to leave.
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King James creates his own bible that is later enforced on the scottish people and used for 250 years
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james died leaving his high and mightly attitude to his son and his careless actions to everyone else.
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James 1 has just passed and Charles has succeded his father. Adopting his thoughts about absolute monarchy and taxation of people
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The Duke of Buckingham , King James 1's right hand man, was killed by Parliament.
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Parliament creates te Petition of rights . Saying that the king had to follow the magna carta. they draw back to the magna carta and remind him that he is breaking the law. Have to have a proper trial with a jury. Have to have evidence for a judgment. Charles conforms because he needs the parliament taxes to fund his lavish life.
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Laud is appointed the new Arch Bishop of Cantabury.
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King Charles forces the New King James Bible into the protestant lands of Scottland, saying that if they did not follow, they would be killed. This very much angered the Scottish
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first time in history that the Scottish have defeated the British. Caused by King James sending new bibles into Scottland and angering the protestant people. Parliament was also protestant and so they didnt help the King.
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after being together for around a month, Charles dissolves short parliament
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King Charles calls parliament because he is short on money after the war. Says he will reason with them, but neve does.
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Strafford is executed, due to his influence on the Kings decisions on taxes and political moves.
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Court of Star Chambers is ebolished by Parliament
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King Charles is forced to sign the grande Remonstrance. This made him 1. Call parliament regularly. 2. Not impose illegal and invented taxes.3. give the control of the army to parliament not the king. 4. Uphold the privilege of parliament. 5. admit his wrong doings which are expressed in grand remonstrance (written by john pym).
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King Charles marched on parliament hil trying to arrest the 5 leading memebers of parliament. The idea failed and Charles was sent to excecution.
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King charles' wife, Henrietta goes to the Netherlands to collect the family jewls to pay for charles army.
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King Charles raises his standards ar nottingham, starting the British Civil War.
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the new model army is created. a group of highly trained soliders lead my oliver cromwell. Fighting for the roundheads ( protestants) and against the king ( cavaliers).
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when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the New Model Army. It is arguably the only military coup d'état in English history.
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any parliament left over from after prides purge and the civil war
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After everything that he had tried to do, Charles ended up being a horrible King and died fighting his own people.
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Charles arrives in scottland and takes covanent. ruler of England and Scottland
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Cromwell routs the scouts
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New model army defeats Charles and the Scots
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Oliver Cromwell is names lord protector of England, the new unelected ruler of Engalnd
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Richard Cromwell sucessed his father as lord protector
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Richard Cromwell resigns from power and end of the Protectorate.
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Forbidding anyone but the Church members from holding political office or entering the professions
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The Glorious Revolution. James II who is openly Catholic takes the throne, however, at that time the majority of England was Anti-Catholic. James II gave high offices to Catholics despite the Test Act. He believed in the Divine Right of Kings and wanted England to return Catholic. did not go well with Parliament
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The parliament brought in William of Orange becuase he was a proud Protestant, which was the direction parliament wanted then country to go. This was the first time government had ever elected someone not of direct royal blood to rule england. Mary( James 2's daughter ) was the only person connecting the couple to the thrown. They were power duo.
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signed by William and Mary, It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament. The loyalists to King James 2 feld the country.
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the start of large Commons being converted into enclosures. This had happened before , though now it was large scale. Farmlands were gated and harvested for one purpose ( crops), that benifits the comunity.
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Jethro Tull ( English inventor) created the seed drill, that would plant seeds equally and in rows. The machiene could be pulled by horses and made harvesting very easy.
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invented by Thomas Newcomen, derastically improved production in factories
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle. speeds up weaving in the textile industry
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Darby creates Cast Iron. Helps the industrial revolution greatly, gives a newer, stronger material to make things out of.
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The Bridgewater canal is built by John Gilbert
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This gave land to first nations in order to successfully continue the fur trade. It also drew a boundry that the explorers of the 13 colonies could not cross. this made the overcrowed cities of the 13 colonies even more crowed and prevented them from expanding. It left its citizens feeling upset and ignored.
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One of the many taxse imposed on the 13 colonies, to pay off the debt from the seven years war. tax on sugar
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invented my james hargraves and named after his wife. Machiene that sped up the process of cothing production and also took the place of many spinners.
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Charged a tax on paper, this angered the people directly using paper alot. ex. lawyers, writers. and so Britian recieved bad press. This was one of the many taxes that britian imposed without asking the 13 colonies. creating the motto of the revolution " no taxation without representaion."
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after many protests through news papers and lawyers, the main people who were being bothered by the Stamp act. It got repealed after one year.
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The boston masacre was not a masacre in any means. There are two sides of the story and both are not very clear. though only 7 people died in a fight between 8 English soliders on watch and over 400 citizens. The soldiers were attacked untill they fired a shot and these actions were then portrayed in a negative way through the metal works of Paul Reviere.
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The tea act actually lower the price on tea, ensuring that all tea was purchased from the India Tea Company. The citizens of the 13 colonies were very upset with this because 1. it was implyed without representation and 2. tea was a huge part of English life
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Not actually a tea party but a raid on the incomming British boats loaded with tea. 342 barrels of tea wre dumped into the adlantic ocean, It was also the Breaking point for the British government
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caused a huge uproar among the citizens of the 13 colonies. It expanded the boarders of
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The Intolerable act s were set in place due to the Boston tea party.1. The Quarting Act - alowing soliders to demand food and a place to sleep anywhere they went. 2. the Boston port act- closing the port of boston impacting the econmy there. 3. Massechusetts Governemnt act 4. and the Administration of justice act
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All of the colonies sent delegates except Georgia, They met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. There they disscussed their opinions on what Britian was doing to them. They all agreed it was unfair
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Paul revere had his famous ride that night, warning the people in Lexington that the British were comming.
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The Frist Battle of the American Revolution. Took place at Lexington, the British were comming to collect weapons but were attacked by the americans . Still a very organized way of war fare. the " shot heard round the world" was the famous first shot that kick started the war.
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Created the continental army lead by George Washington.
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Battle of Bunker hill was actually fought on the hill next to it , Breeds hill. It was won by the English though at the begining, the americans were holding their ground. Giving them mental Strength for next time. Famous line ' only fire until you see the whites of thier eyes."
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This was the first formal request from America saysin gthat they wanted to separate from Britian. It did no accomplish the task, it only imformed Britian of what they wanted.
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Fisrt major battle bettween the Americans and the English
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the americans ( lead by George washington ) crossed the Deleware river and captured all of the hessians on the other side,
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Another american victory, drove the British out of New Jersey.
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Turning point of the revolutionary war. British General Burgoyne's 3-pronged attack failed and he surrendered as a result. This battle convinced the French to help the Americans by supplying ammunition, money and eventually ships. Lafayette helped out with this.
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the americans defeat the british in their final battle over the 13 colonies. America claims its indipendance physically by winning the war. The battle that won the war with the help of the French
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Declairing officially that America was its own country and the British agreeing to their request by signing the document
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After Louis XVI locked the third esate out of the building, they found a tennis court in the castle to meet in and vowed never to stop untill the king was gone.
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The National Assembly wrote the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen which is very similar to America's Declaration of Independence
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the national assembly stormed the Bastille prison. Literally tearing it apart piece by piece. The did not commence the riot because they wanted to free the prisoners, but to murder the general on duty and to get the weapns inside.
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an angry mob of women had heard rumours that Marie was hiding bread inside the palace, and so they stormed the castle trying to kill her. many many people joined her. The King and Queen agreed to come to Paris with them .
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while being trapped in paris at the mercy of the people the Royal family snuck out ant tried flee to austria. ( Marie's home country ) knowing that they could get military help to regain their thrown.
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The first meeting of the National Convention (constitutional and legislative assembly of France) Robespierre and Marat were present
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Death by guiotine. was killed because the people felt betrayed after he tred to flee to austria.
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people were being mass murdreed at the will of Robes Pierre because they were supected of being associated with the royals. many many people were killed by the guillotine.
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Jean Paul Marat is murdered in his bath tub by a woman who had enough of his insulting an overwhelming newspaper.
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Robes pierre was excecuted after declairing he had made a finally list of people to be murdered. Everyone in the National Convention agreed he needed to go and so the very thing he created killed him.
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this act amde it illegal for childeren for childeren to be at work for more than 12 hours a day.
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was a war war leader that was elected emperor. He actually to the crown from the Pope's hands and crowned himself ruler.
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code stating that nobody will have special rights because of birth.
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Napolean would conqoure land and give it to his family members to rule.
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After being defeated and exiled to Elba by the other leaders of Europe, he heard that he was needed againby his people and escaped.
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Napolean is exiled to st. Helena, and island where there is no excaping what so ever. After ralying a french army and starting the 100 days campagne he is sent there to die. And he does.
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this act made it illigal for a child under the age of 9 years old to be hired in the textile industry.
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a locomotive ( steam engine) that could pull cars on railways. It was the fastest machiene n the world, with a record breaking speed of 39km/hour. built by George and Robert Stephenson.
