Triumph of Parliament in England By rockrkat 1485 Tudor Monarchs Ruled 1603 Elizabeth died childless 1603 Stuart king James I rules 1625 Charles I inherited the throne 1628 Charles I brought back Parliament 1629 Dissolved Parliament and ignored petition 1637 Try to impose Anglican pray book on Scotland 1640 Summoned Parliament again, but they initiated revolt 1640 Parliament became known as Long Parliament 1642 The civil war that followed 1647 Cromwell's army defeated the Cavaliers 1649 Stuart king Charles I rules 1649 Charles I was executed 1652 Parliament passed a law exiling most Catholics 1653 Cromwell took title Lord Protector & ruled as a dictator through army 1658 Oliver Cromwell died 1660 New Parliament invited Charles II to return to England 1685 James II, Charles' brother, inherited the throne 1688 Parliamentary leaders invited Mary, James’ daughter and William III of Orange to become leaders of England 1688 James II fled to France when Mary's army was late 1689 English Bill of Rights were accepted by Mary and William 1689 A separate Toleration Act granted limited religious freedom to dissenters 1721 Robert Walpole molded the cabinet into a unified body
