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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta formed
The Magna Carta is passed. It was formatted by a group of barons who felt that the king was infringing on their rights. The most noteable clause of the Carta was the section that called for a commitiee of barons that would meet to check the kings actions-the forbearer of Parliment Picture source:http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoV0Jy4VQO1cAS0qJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dmagna%2Bcarta%2B1215% -
Period: Jan 1, 1215 to
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Charles becomes King
After the death of his father, James I, Charles becomes king. He begins to clash with Parliment almost immediatly, as he asks for an outrageous 700,000 pounds to finance the 30 years war. Parliment balks and Charles disbanded/recalled them several times before authorizing taxes without their consent picture source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_Charles_I_by_Antoon_van_Dyck.jpg -
Petition of Right passed
Under pressure from a united parliment, King Charles I caves in and signs the Petition his right, which limits his powers over the english masses, while strentghening Parliments Picture source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petition_of_Right.jpg -
English Civil War Starts
Reaching a boiling point between Parliment and Charles, tensions boiled over into war, as the whole country was soon engulfed by one side or the other in the conflict. Parliment is victorius in the war, which ends in late August 1648. Picture Source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Battle_of_Naseby.jpg -
Charles is executed
Charles is brought to London to stand trial for breaking the peace that had seperated the two periods of fighting in the Civil War. Found guilty after about a month of hearings, he is beheaded and scorned as a tyrant. Picture Source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Court-charles-I-sm.jpg -
Cromwell becomes Lord Procter
After the founding of the Republic in 1648, Cromwell becomes essientially a military dictator, which hinders the development of the republic and eventually leads Parliment to dimiss his son as the rightful successor and they began to seek a possible return of a limited monarchy image souurce:http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoS6hY4hQ50MAAB2JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Doliver%2Bcromwell%26fr%3 -
Monarchy restored
Under outside duress, and the failure of Cromwell to provide freedom, Parliment reconizes Charles II as the rightful king. Although they gave him back several powers, Charles was careful not to overstep the bounds that his father did and it slowly materilized into the monarchy Britain has today image source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_II_of_England.jpeg
