The British Isles under the Stuarts

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  • Millenary Petition

  • 1603

    James I's coronation
  • Period: to

    Reign of James I

  • Hampton Court Conference

  • 1604 Parliamentary session

    First tensions between James and Parliament. Ended with the Form of Apology and Satisfaction

  • Gunpowder Plot discovered

  • 1607 Session

    Tensions on the question of the Union of the Crowns (Scotland and England)

  • Great Contract (failed)

    An attempt at granting the Crown £200,00 a year

  • Outbreak of the Thirty Years' War

  • Death of James I

  • Five Knights' Case

  • Petition of Rights

  • Period: to

    Personal Rule

  • William Laud made Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Beginning of Scottish rebellion

    Because of the English Book of Common Prayer

  • Defeat of Charles I and Treaty of Ripon

  • Triennial Act

  • Period: to

    First Civil War

  • Attempte arrest of 5 MPs by Charles I

  • New Model Army

    First professional army ; many Puritan soldiers ; radical force
  • Period: to

    Second Civil War

  • Execution of Charles I

  • Death of Queen Anne