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Period: 1491 to 1547
Henry VIII reign
He was king of England & Ireland to 1509 until his death -
1533
Act in Restraint of Appeals - 1533
Drafted by Thomas Cromwell on behalf of King Henry VIII the Act was made. They gave the legal power to annul marriages. -
Period: 1533 to
Elizabeth I reign
Queen Elizabeth I claim the throne at the age of 25. -
1534
1st Act of Supremacy - 1534
Henry VIII was made Supreme Head of the Church of England. -
1537
Creation of the English bible and mandatory in churches - 1537
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1549
Publication of the Book of Common Prayer - 1549
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1559
The Act of Uniformity - 1559
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1559
2nd Act of Supremacy - 1559
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1563
The 39th Article of Faith - 1563
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1568
Marian civil war - 1568 to 1573
Civil war in Scotland -
The execution of Mary Queen of Scots - 1587
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The victory of the Virgin Queen against the Spanish Armada - 1588
The Spanish Armada send by the King of Spain Philip tried to invade Britain but failed. It was a huge victory for the Virgin Queen. -
The East India Company chartered - 1600
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James I reign
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The Gunpowder plot - 1605
The Gunpowder plot of 1605 was a failed assasination attempt against King James I by a group of English Catholics -
The 3rd Parliament of King James I - 1621
James I decided to summon the Parliament because of his desire to raise the funds necessary for a war. -
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Charles I reign
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Petition of Right by the Parliament - 1628
Because of the king, who refused to respect the laws, this petition was created to ask him to recognize the his acts. -
Three resolutions - 1629
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The personnal rule
Charles I decided to rule without the Parliament during 11 years and historians called this period “The Eleven Years Tyranny”. -
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The Bishops wars - 1637
It was not just in England but in Scotland and Ireland too. It started because some bishops were against Charle's religious policy. That opposition led to the creation of an army called "The Bishop's War". -
The peace treaty of Ripon - 1640
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The long parliament - 1640
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The Irish Rebellion - 1641
It started by Irish Catholics in the Kingdom of Ireland, who wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and to partially or fully reverse the plantations of Ireland. -
The Grand Remonstrance of 1641
The Grand Remonstrance was a long and expansive document that enumerated all the grievances perpetrated by the King's government in church and state since the beginning of his reign. -
Charles I entered into the enlish House of Commons - 1642
The King entered into the House of Commons with troops and attempted to arrest 5 Members of Parliament. This act showed the end of respect and tolerance between the King and the Parliament -
The Battle of Naseby - 1645
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The Putney Debates - 1647
They were a series of discussions over the political settlement that should follow Parliament's victory over Charles I in the First English Civil War -
The king escape and the Second civil war - 1647/1648
The king escaped and then forged an alliance with the Scots promising the installation of Presbyterianism over England.
This led to the Second Civil War. -
King Charles I was executed - 1649
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The Interregnum - 1949
England has been governed without a King for a decade. Oliver Cromwell will assume the role of the head of the State -
The death of the lord protector Croomwell
His son Richard became Lord Protector, but had to resign because of political tensions -
Declaration of Breda - 1660
It is a proclamation by Charles II of England in which he promised a general pardon for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum. -
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Charles II Reign - 1660
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The outbreak of plague - 1665
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The Great Fire of London - 1666
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The Popish Plot - 1678
Rumors that the French wanted to executed Charles II and replaced him with his catholic brother -
Charles II death - 1685
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James II reign - 1685
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The glorious revolution - 1688
It's started because of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. -
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The Consitutional Monarchy led by William III and Mary II
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The Bill of Right - 1689
England became a Constitutional Monarchy, framed by the 1689 Bill of Right. -
The Act of settlement - 1701
It's an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns on Protestants only -
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Anne stuart reign
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Act of Union between England and Scotland - 1707
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The Georgian Era
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George I reign
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The frist Jacobite rising
The rebellion was launched to reinstate the Stuarts to the British throne -
The second Jacobite raising - 1745
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The Seven Years War
The Seven Years War had roots in colonial America in conflicts between Great Britain and France. -
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George II reign
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Another Irish rebellion - 1798
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Creaton of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - 1801
Acts of Union in 1801 -
Charles declared war on Parliament - 1942
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The first Civil war - 1942
This war opposed the Cavaliers (Royalists) and the Roundheads (Parlementarians).
It will cost the lives of 190 000 Englishmens from combats and diseases spread by the troops. -
The Commonwealth - 1649
Monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished.
England was declared a Commonwealth.