Chapter 5 European State Consolidation

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  • James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England

  • James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England

    King until 1625

  • Hampton Court Conference

    James I rebuffed the Puritans and declared his intention to maintain and enhance the Anglican episcopacy

  • Publication of the authorized (King James version of the Bible

  • Michael Romanov becomes tsar

  • Puritan separatists left England and founded the Plymouth Colony

  • Petition of Right

    English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from break

  • Charles I dissolves Parliament and embarks on 11 years of personal rule

  • Parliament declared Charles I's levying of taxes without consent was an act of treason

  • Reign of Frederick William

    Ruled until 1688

  • Parliament presented Charles with the Grand Remonstrance

    Grand Remonstrance was a summary of grievances

  • Civil War of England

    Lasted until 1646

  • Charles I defeated at Naseby

  • England becomes Puritan republic

    Led by the military dictator Cromwell until his death in 1658

  • Charles I executed

  • Charles II restored the English Throne

  • Secret Treaty of Dover between France and England

  • Parliament passes Test Act

    Test Acts were a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics and nonconformists.

  • Popish Plot

    The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. Eventually, Oates's intricate web of accusations fell apart, leading to his arrest and conviction for perjury.

  • Peter the Great becomes tsar

    He assumes personal rule in 1689

  • Turkish siege of Vienna

  • James II becomes king of England

  • "Glorious Revolution"

    William of Orange took the English throne from James II in 1688. The event brought a permanent realignment of power within the English constitution.

  • William and Mary become English Monarchs

    James II went to France to face Williams of Orange's army so William and Mary were proclaimed English Monarchs. Glorious Revolution because it was a bloodless accession it also limited the power of monarchs and prohibited Roman Catholics from occupying the english throne

  • Peter the Great assumes personal rule

  • Charles XII of Sweden comes to Throne

    He led a campaign against the Russians in the Great Nothern War

  • Peace Treaty between Turks and Habsburgs

  • Great Northern War

    lasted until 1721

  • Acts of Settlement

  • Reign of Queen Anne

    The last of the Stuarts. Ruled Great Britain until 1714.

  • St. Petersburg founded

  • Act of Union

    England and Scotland

  • Charles VI rules Austria

    Ruled from 1711-1740. He secures agreement to the Pragmatic Sanction

  • Treaty of Utrecht ends the war of the Spanish Succession

  • George I

    Becomes King of Great Britain and establishes Hanoverian Dynasty

  • Robert Walpolen dominates Britains Politics

    Until 1742

  • Peace of Nystad

    This ends the Great Northern War

  • Peter establishes a synod for the Russian church

  • Peter issues Table of Ranks

    A formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia

  • Peter the Great Dies

  • George II becomes King of Great Britain

  • Frederick William violates the Pragmatic Sanction

    Frederick invades Silesia