English Civil War

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  • Bishops' Wars start in Scotland

    Bishops' Wars start in Scotland

  • the Long Parliament passes "An Act for the Regulating the Privie Councell and for taking away the Court commonly called the Star Chamber"

  • Parliament appoints the Committee of Safety

  • Charles forced to sign the Treaty of Ripon.

  • October, outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641

  • The Grand Remonstrance is presented to the King

  • the Long Parliament passes the Militia Ordinance

  • The Nineteen Propositions rejected

  • Parliament appoints the Committee of Safety

  • King Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham and the war commences.

  • The Yorkshire Treaty of Neutrality was signed, but was repudiated by Parliament

  • King Charles I passed through Birmingham, the towns folk seized the Kings carriages, containing the royal plate and furniture, which they conveyed for security to Warwick Castle, a parliamentary stronghold.

  • Battle of Edgehill

  • Declaration of Lex Talionis

  • , Battle of Hopton Heath

  • Battle of Stratton

  • Battle of Gainsborough

  • Battle of Winceby

  • Battle of Nantwich

  • Siege of Newcastle, formal request to surrender to the Scots

  • Storming of Bolton and the Bolton Massacre

  • Second Battle of Aberdeen

  • the Long Parliament passes the Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish

  • the Long Parliament appoints commissioners to meet with the king's commissioners at Uxbridge

  • negotiations over the Treaty of Uxbridge end unsuccessfully

  • the Long Parliament passes the Self-denying Ordinance

  • Battle of Alford

  • Battle of Philiphaugh

  • Surrender of Leicester

  • fear of Royalist attack in south Lincolnshire

  • Siege of Dartmouth ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison.

  • Battle of Torrington victory for the New Model Army

  • Ralph Hopton surrenders the Royalist army at Tresillian bridge in Cornwall.

  • Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire

  • Siege of Worcester ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison

  • Royalist garrison of Raglan Castle surrendered (Wales)

  • the Long Parliament passes the Ordinance for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops

  • the Long Parliament passes the Ordinance for the abolishing of Archbishops and Bishops

  • Harlech Castle the last Royalist stronghold in Wales surrendered to the Parliamentary forces.

  • Army offers the Heads of Proposals

  • "An Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right", presented to the Army Council