England became a Constitutional Monarchy

  • Sep 22, 1516

    Parliment

    Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the UK Parliament
  • Feb 6, 1561

    Charles 11

    Charles II was king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death
  • Oliver Cormell rules england

    was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • Oliver Cormell

    Cromwell won the first civil war involving the whole of Britain and was the key figure in the execution of Charles I. Find out how a revolutionary who toppled a king, only to become a despot himself, paved the way for parliamentary democracy.
  • death of Elizabeth 1

    She drew her final breath on march 24, 1603 at Richmond palace in surrey
  • James 1

    Who styled himself “king of Great Britain.” James was a strong advocate of royal absolutism, and his conflicts with an increasingly self-assertive Parliament set the stage for the rebellion against his successor
  • Charles 1

    he was a good linguist and a sensitive man of refined tastes and had many rights and command
  • Petition Of Rights

    a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
  • English civil war

    The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government
  • Autumn of 1641 of laws

    sparked by Catholic fears of an impending invasion of Ireland by anti-Catholic forces of the English
  • Charles 1 Dissolves

    king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49), whose authoritarian rule and quarrels with Parliament provoked a civil war that led to his execution.
  • Charles 1 Excuted

    English throne in 1625 following the death of his father, King James I. In the first year of his reign, Charles offended his Protestant subjects by marrying Henrietta Maria, a Catholic French princess.
  • Restoration

    the return of a hereditary monarch to a throne, a head of state to government, or a regime to power.
  • William and Mary

    King William III and Queen Mary II. William was born in The Hague in the Netherlands. He was an only child and never knew his father William II who died of smallpox
  • Habeas Corpus passed

    The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of King Charles II by what became known as the Habeas Corpus Parliament to define and strengthen the ancient prerogative writ of habeas
  • James II

    James II and VII was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious