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Nov 19 Charles, the future king of England was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife in...(more)

Nov 6 Charles' elder brother Henry died of typhoid making Charles heir to the English...(more)

Apr 23 Oliver Cromwell was admitted into Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge....(more)

Aug 22 Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, the daughter of Sir James...(more)

Mar 27 Charles became the first person to succeed to the crown of both England and...(more)

May 11 Proxy wedding of Charles & Henrietta in Paris....(more)

Jun Charles I called his first Parliament in June of 1625. His aim was to raise...(more)

Jun 13 Charles marries Henrietta Maria de Bourbon in St Augustine's Church at...(more)

Aug Britain was affected by another outbreak of the plague....(more)

Oct A fleet of English warships was ordered by the Duke of Buckingham to sail to...(more)

Dec 9 A treaty signed by England and the Netherlands agreeing to pay Christian IV of...(more)

Feb The plague's affects had diminished in London...(more)

Feb Charles called his second Parliament again to raise funds for his military...(more)

Feb 2 Charles I was crowned at Westminster Abbey....(more)

Jun Charles dismissed Henrietta's French entourage sending them back to France...(more)

Jun 15 Charles dissolved Parliament after first arresting Sir John Eliot. The king was...(more)

Mar Charles called another Parliament intent on getting money for more military...(more)

Jun 26 Although Parliament had agreed to give the King his money, it also pressed for...(more)

Aug 23 John Felton, a sailor with either a personal or political grudge against...(more)

May 13 Henrietta gave birth to her first child, Charles James Stuart, but he died the...(more)

May 29 Charles (II), the future King of England was born at St. James's Palace in...(more)

Jul 15 The ancient council in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire was abolished by a new...(more)

Apr 10 A banana tree was shipped from the Bahamas to by a Mr Johnson who put it in his...(more)

Oct 14 James was the fourth child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria....(more)

Oliver Cromwell inherited land in Ely when his uncle on his mother's side, Sir...(more)

Charles I gave Thomas Bushell permission to produce coins. He set up the mint...(more)

May Charles I gathered an army and moved to the border of Scotland. He had sent the...(more)

Jun 18 The army Charles had put together was no match for the Scotish army under the...(more)

Apr 13 Charles I called Parliament to ask for taxes to raise money for war against the...(more)

Jul 8 The son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France was born on this day....(more)

Aug 20 Alexander Leslie, the Scottish Field Marshall, with a force of some 20,000...(more)

Aug 28 At Newburn, a crossing on the River Tyne, the Scots met a force of English...(more)

Sep 24 In light the serious Scottish invasion, Charles called a Great Council at York....(more)

Oct 26 The Treaty of Ripon, signed by Charles I, agreed to pay the Scots £850 a day...(more)

Nov 3 Charles I was forced to call Parliament to raise money to pay for a continued...(more)

Feb Charles I arranged the marriage between his eldest daughter, Mary Princess...(more)

Mar 22 Earl Strafford's trial commenced....(more)

May 12 Earl Strafford was executed on Tower Hill....(more)

Oct A rebellion of Irish Catholics in Ulster erupted. They attacked the Protestants...(more)

Nov 22 Parliament passed the Grand Remonstrance, a list of grievances against King...(more)

Dec 21 Charles I dismissed Sir William Balfour from his position as Constable of the...(more)

Jan 4 Charles I, with a small band of soldiers, attempted to arrest key leaders of...(more)

Feb 13 Charles agreed to the Bill that forced the exclsion of Bishops from the House...(more)

Feb 23 Queen Henrietta Maria left the country via Dover looking for support for her...(more)

Mar Parliament authorised Robert Rich, the Earl of Warwick to take control of the...(more)

Apr Robert Monro and a force of some two thousand Scottish soldiers landed in...(more)

Apr 23 The city of Hull had a large store of weapons and both Parliament and King...(more)

Aug 22 Charles I declared war by raising his standard at Nottingham Castle....(more)

Sep 9 The Earl of Essex left London and marched to Northampton with a force estimated...(more)

Sep 13 Charles left Nottingham Castle and marched his army towards Shrewsbury....(more)

Sep 23 Royalists led by Prince Rupert defeated a Parliamentarian force emerging from...(more)

Sep 28 By the end of September King Charles had reached Shrewsbury where he was warmly...(more)

Oct 12 Charles left Shrewsbury and headed south east in the general direction of...(more)

Oct 23 Charles moved his army to the top of Edgehill overlooking a large plain and the...(more)

Oct 27 The Royalists led by Charles moved on Banbury. The town surrendered without a...(more)

Oct 29 Charles moved his army from Banbury to Oxford and made the town his base of...(more)

Nov 4 In early November Charles took Reading while Prince Rupert was attacking...(more)

Dec Charles sent the winter at his base at Oxford....(more)

Dartmouth Castle fell to Maurice after a short siege....(more)

Feb 22 The Queen returned from Holland, landing at Bridlington on the North Yorkshire...(more)

Mar Lichfield Cathedral, surrounded by a defensive ditch and walls, was held by...(more)

Mar 24 Sir William Waller crossed the River Severn and surprised a garrison of...(more)

Apr 13 Prince Maurice, younger brother of Prince Rupert, defeated Sir William Waller...(more)

Apr 20 The Royalists under the command of Prince Rupert were determined to retake...(more)

May (Old) Wardour Castle was besieged by Sir Edward Hungerford and Edmund Ludlow...(more)

Jul 5 This battle was fought along a steep sided ridge near Bath. The...(more)

Jul 10 The Royalists were badly affected by the injuries suffered at Lansdown Hill...(more)

Jul 13 Once Charles learnt that Hopton was being held at Devizes, he sent Wilmot to...(more)

Aug Corfe Castle was being besieged by Parliamentary forces. Inside the castle...(more)

Feb Parliamentary forces led by Colonel Laugharne captured Pill Fort and the...(more)

Mar 29 Parliamentary forces lead by William Waller defeated the Royalists lead by Lord...(more)

May William Waller and the Earl of Essex were advancing on Oxford where the King...(more)

Jun Prince Rupert and his army had crossed the Pennines and was heading for York to...(more)

Jun 29 With the Earl of Essex out of the way and the Parliamentary forces divided, the...(more)

Jul 2 With the arrival of Prince Rupert, the Parliamentarian forces led by generals...(more)

Jul 16 After the Battle of Marston Moor the Royalists abandoned York and the...(more)

Sep 2 A Parliamentarian army controlled by the Earl of Essex surrendered to Charles I...(more)

Oct 27 Charles I met Parliamentary forces led by the Earl of Manchester and William...(more)

Nov 9 Charles I returned to Donnington Castle to get the guns he had left there. A...(more)

Dec 9 Parliament wanted a report into the failings of the army against King Charles...(more)

Dec 19 In Parliament the Commons agreed the conditions of the first Self-Defying...(more)

Feb 15 The Self-Denying Ordinance was passed by the Lords after extra clarification...(more)

Mar The west of England was under attack from the Royalist Western army commanded...(more)

Jun 14 Sir Thomas Fairfax and the New Model Army caught the King at Naseby Field in...(more)

Jun 18 The Royalist defeat was complete when the King's men at Leicester surrendered...(more)

Jul 10 Fairfax went to the south west to deal with the Royalist Lord Goring and the...(more)

Jul 21 Fairfax besieged Bridgwater in Somerset. The siege didn't last long as Fairfax...(more)

Jul 29 The Parliamentarians captured the city of Bath....(more)

Aug 15 After a two week siege the castle at Sherborne fell to the Parliamentarians....(more)

Aug 18 Montrose entered Glasgow and a new Parliament was convened in the name of King...(more)

Sep Cromwell took his forces into Wiltshire and captured Devies, Laycock House and...(more)

Sep 10 Fairfax surrounded the city of Bristol which was held by Prince Rupert and...(more)

Sep 13 After his successes in Scotland Montrose decided to go to England to assist the...(more)

Sep 24 King Charles had been staying at Raglan Castle but the fall of his support in...(more)

Sep 26 After a short siege Berkeley Castle surrendered reducing even further the...(more)

Jan 19 Only days after Hopton had taken charge to the Royalist forces in the...(more)

Feb 3 Lord Byron and the Royalists could not sustain their position in Chester...(more)

Feb 16 Fairfax caught up with Hopton who was in North Devon at Torrington. The attack...(more)

Mar 13 On March 13/14 Hopton finally surrendered to Fairfax at Truro. Charles, the...(more)

Apr The armies of Fairfax and Cromwell surrounded the city of Oxford where King...(more)

Apr After accepting the surrender of Hopton, Fairfax turned to the city of Exeter...(more)

May 5 After leaving Oxford Charles travelled with two companions, Ashburnham, his...(more)

May 9 Charles agreed to some of the terms specified by the Scots and he ordered the...(more)

Jun 15 The marriage of General Henry Ireton to Bridget, the eldest daughter of Oliver...(more)

Jan 28 Charles would never submit to the demands for Presbyterianism and so the Scots...(more)

Nov Charles I took refuge at Carisbrooke but the castle later turned out to be his...(more)

Cromwell ordered that the castle at Haverfordwest should be demolished....(more)

May 29 Charles entered London on his thirtieth birthday to become King of England....(more)

Apr 23 Charles II was crowned eleven months after becoming king at Westminster Abbey....(more)

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