English Civil War

By WAMB

  • James I becomes KING

    1603-1625

  • PEACE WITH SPAIN

  • Gunpowder Plot

    The plot was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

  • Ascendancy of the Duke of Bukingham

    1618-1628

  • THIRTY YEARS WAR

    1618-1648

  • Charles I becomes King

    1625-1649

  • WAR WITH SPAIN

    1625-1629

  • WAR WITH FRANCE

    1627-1630

  • The Personal Rule

    1629-1640

  • REVOLT IN SCOTLAND

  • REVOLT IN IRELAND

  • The First English CIvil War

    1642-1646

  • The Second Civil War

  • Execution of Charles I

  • The Commonwealth

    1649-1660

  • PACIFICATION OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

    1649-1651

  • FIRST ANGLO-DUTCH WAR

    1652-1654

  • Cromwell's Protectorate

    1653-58

  • Dissolution of the Rump

    The Rump was created by Pride's Purge of those members of the Long Parliament who did not support the political position of the Grandees in the New Model Army.
    Most Rumpers were gentry, though there was a higher proportion of lesser gentry and lawyers than in previous parliaments. Less than one-quarter of them were regicides. This left the Rump basically a conservative body whose vested interests in the existing land ownership and legal systems made them unlikely to want to reform these.

  • WAR WITH SPAIN

    1655-1658

  • DEATH OF CROMWELL

  • Charles II

    1660-1685

  • THE RESTORATION

  • LOUIS XIV TAKES THE FRENCH THRONE

  • SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR

    1665-1667

  • TREATY OF DOVER

    a treaty between England and France signed at Dover on June 1 in 1670. It required France to assist England in the king's aim that it would rejoin the Roman Catholic Church and England to assist France in its war of conquest against the Dutch Republic. The Third Anglo-Dutch War was a direct consequence of this treaty.

  • THIRD ANGLO-DUTCH WAR

    1672-1674

  • THE EXCLUSION CRISIS

    The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1678 through 1681 in the reign of Charles II of England. The Exclusion Bill sought to exclude the king's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland because he was Roman Catholic. The Tories were opposed to this exclusion while the "Country Party," who were soon to be named the Whigs, supported it.

  • PERSONAL RULE

    1681-1685

  • James II

    1785-1688

  • LOUIS XIV'S REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES

    The Edict of Fontainebleau was an edict issued by Louis XIV of France, The Edict of Nantes of 1598, had granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion without persecution from the state. Though Protestants had lost their independence in places of refuge under Richelieu, they continued to live in comparative security and political contentment. From the outset, religious toleration in France had been a royal, rather than a popular policy.

  • THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

  • WAR WITH FRANCE

    September 1688 – September 1697

  • William III and MAry II

    1688-1702

  • TREATY OF RYSWICK

    The treaty settled the Nine Years' War, which pitted France against the Grand Alliance of England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the United Provinces.

  • ACT OF SUCCESSION

  • WAR WITH FRANCE WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION