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1508-1516
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Henry VIII declared supreme head of the Church of England
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1562-1598
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King Henry IV created the Edict of Nentes, which allowed tolerance to French Protestants and earned him a few more allies.
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When Henry was assassinated in 1610, the throne fell to nine-year-old Louis XIII. Because the new king was too young to govern, his key minister, Cardinal Richelieu, had almost full reign to shape France as he saw fit. He immediately began building an absolute monarchy, picking up where Henry left off and adding innovations of his own. Over the next few years, Richelieu: Centralized the government and created an efficient bureaucracy loyal to the king.
Diminished the power of the nobility and e -
1618-1648
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Parliament trades taxation increase for basic legal rights
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results from Charles I’s attempt to impose the English Prayer Book on Scottish Presbyterian Church
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1635-1659
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Charles attempt to raise taxes to fight the war (disbanded after only a month)
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Richelieu died in 1642, France was just about an absolute monarchy. When Louis XIII died the following year, his five-year-old son, Louis XIV, assumed the throne. The king's new minister, Cardinal Mazarin, continued to follow in Richelieu's strategy, and by the time Louis was ready to rule in his own right in 1661, he was truly an absolute monarch.
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1642-1651 starts when Charles declared war against opponents in Parliament
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all non-Puritans and Presbyterians removed from Parliament leaving only the “Rump Parliament
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1649-1660 rule without king
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Catholic property given the Protestant settlers
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Ended France expansion and and war of spanish succsesion
