Stuart Britain Key Dates: Charles I

Charles’ coronation

Charles’ wedding to Henrietta Maria

Charles’ first parliament meets for the first time, granting him only 1 year of tonnage and poundage

The reason Charles called his first parliament

Customs duties typically granted to the monarch for a life time, that was only granted to Charles for one year by parliament

Richard Montague appointed as royal chaplain

Parliament meets in Oxford due to a plague outbreak in London. Buckingham receives criticism and ‘The Useless’ Parliament is dissolved.

The Cadiz Expedition failure

The number of people who died during the Cadiz expedition

The York House Conference and Parliament is reinstated.

Buckingham is impeached and the second of Charles’ Parliaments is dissolved

The Forced Loan

The amount of money raised by the Forced Loan

How many men refused to pay the Forced Loan and were imprisoned?

The La Rochelle failure

The number of men who died at La Rochelle because of Buckingham’s leadership

The Five Knight's Case

The five men imprisoned without trial in the Five Knight's Case

Charles’ third Parliament is called

The Petition of Right

The complaints in the Petition of Right

Laud and Montagu are promoted to Bishops

Buckingham is assassinated

Wentworth appointed president of the Council of the North

The Three Resolutions are proposed, the third Parliament is dissolved and Personal Rule begins

The demands in the Three Resolutions

The Treaty of Susa, ending war with France

Exchequer judges support the King’s rights to levy knighthood fines

The Treaty of Madrid, ending war with Spain

The Books of Orders are issued

Thomas Wentworth is appointed lord deputy of Ireland

Laud is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury

Charles I's coronation in Scotland

Why was Charles I's Scottish coronation unpopular?

Ship money writs sent to maritime counties

Ship Money is extended inland, medieval forest courts are revived

Three examples of Fiscal Feudalism

Bishop Juxon becomes Lord Treasurer, a religious figure in a secular position resembled absolutist regimes

Burton, Bastwick and Prynne are sentenced by the Star Chamber

Charles imposes a new Prayer Book on Scotland, causing the Prayer Book Rebellion

The Hampden Case

The Hampden Case ends

The number of judges in favour of the monarch during the Hampden Case

The number of judged in favour of John Hampden during the Hampden Case

The Scottish National Covenant is established

The Scottish National Assembly abolishes bishops

First Bishops War

Wentworth returns from Ireland and advises Charles to recall parliament

Wentworth is created Earl of Strafford

Short Parliament Dates

The reason the Short Parliament was called

The Second Bishops War

The Treaty of Ripon

What was agreed in the Treaty of Ripon?

The start of the Long Parliament, Wentworth and Laud are impeached and Personal Rule is attacked

Laud is sent to the Tower, Triennial Act

The prosecution of Wentworth fails to prove its case, the Army Plot

The Act of Attainder is passed, Strafford is executed, the Root and Branch bill, and act preventing the dissolution of parliament without its consent is passed

Tonnage and Poundage Act, and the House of Lords rejects the Bishops’ Exclusion bill

The Prerogative Courts (Star Chamber and High Commission) are abolished

Why was the Long Parliament determined to get rid of Charles's "Evil Counsellors" and the Prerogative Courts?

The Ten Propositions

Ship Money is made illegal, the Distraint of Knighthood and Forest Act are both declared unlawful, and Charles visits Scotland

The 'Incident' in Scotland, and the Irish Rebellion

The 'Incident'

Why was the Irish Rebellion important?

The Grand Remonstrance is passed

Why was the Grand Remonstrance significant?

The Militia Bill is introduced, rumours that the Queen is to be impeached

Charles fails to arrest five MPs

Who were the five MPs Charles failed to arrest?

Charles I leaves London for the last time prior to his execution

The Act excluding Bishops from Parliament passes, signed by the King. Henrietta Maria leaves England in search of foreign assistance.

Parliament issues the Militia Ordinance without the king's assent

The Nineteen Propositions

The First Civil War begins after Charles raised his standard at Nottingham

The Battle of Edgehill gives Charles a marginal advantage

The King’s forces stopped at Turnham Green

The Oxford Treaty Negotiations occur and are unsuccessful at achieving peace

Rupert captures Bristol, siege of Hull begins

What was the Solemn League and Covenant deal between Parliament and Scots?

Siege of Hull broken

John Pym dies

The Battle of Marston Moor, a victory for the Scots and Parliament

Essex trapped in Cornwall and surrendered entire army

Manchester and Cromwell quarrel over military strategy, political and religious divisions arise in Parliament between the peace and war parties - known as the Parliamentary crisis

Self-Denying Ordinance introduced

The New Model Army is formed by Oliver Cromwell

Self-Denying Ordinance is passed

The Grandees of the NMA

The Battle of Naseby, a major victory for Parliament turns the tide in the civil war

Royalists under Goring are defeated at Langport

Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol, Scottish royalists defeated by Covenanters

Charles I surrenders to the Scots

Surrender of Oxford to Parliament, Leveller demonstrations in London

July 1646 Presbyterian Party Parliament elected key members of state Parliament to control militia for 20 years Bishops to be abolished and a Presbyterian Church to be created for an experimental 3 years

The Scots hand the King over to Parliament snd leave England, the Parliament votes to disband the army

The army refuses to disband and sends petitions, agitators are seized

July 1647 The Heads of the New Model Army Parliament elected key members of state Parliament to control militia for 10 years Freedom of Religion

Royalist MPs invade parliament and Independent MPs fled