Seventeenth’ century England and the British Civil War.

By Grincheux

  • James I rose to the throne

  • James I declared his "utter detestation of Catholicism"

    He began to treat the Catholics with a lot of discriminatory measures.

  • The gunpowder plot led by Robert Catesby

  • James I dies

  • Charles I is crowned king after the death of his father, James I.

  • Charles I gets rid of the Parliament

  • Charles I puts the Parliament back together

  • Charles I flees London after trying to get 5 parliamentarians arrested.

  • Major battle at Nasehy between the 2 sides.

    Parliament wins. The king is put on house arrest for the next 3 years. The war goes on.
    There is an attempt to reach a compromise with the king, a peace treaty, but, Cromwell sabotages the whole thing and decides to overrule the decision of the Parliament, and declares the king tyrant.

  • Execution of Charles I

    The crown’s tight control over the English state will be challenged by the parliament. The shock of this disagreement will climax with the execution of Charles I in 1649. This period, execution of a king, will be followed by a dictatorship led by the most puritan person having ever walked the surface of this Earth, Oliver Cromwell, distant descendant of Thomas Cromwell. He will establish the Common Wealth, a dictatorship, a republic led by 1 man and a bunch of military officers.

  • Oliver Cromwell gets rid of the Parliament and establishes a military dictatorship

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    Cromwell’s Commonwealth

  • Cromwell dies of pneumonia

  • Restoration of the Monarchy

  • Charles II is crowned king

    This led to the re-establishing of the Stuart dynasty in both Scotland and England. Thus, the Restoration put an end to the English Civil War.
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    The Restoration and the Exclusion Crisis

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    Corporation Act and Act of Uniformity

    The Corporation Act and the Act of
    Uniformity forced all civil servants and military officers to swear
    allegiance to the Church of England. This excluded both Catholics and
    Dissenters from most positions of power.

  • Exclusion bill

    In 1679, an Exclusion Bill was presented to Parliament: it aimed
    at excluding James from the line of succession, who had converted to Catholicism in 1673.

  • Charles II died without a surviving male heir.

  • James II is crowned king

  • The Glorious Revolution

    The relatively peaceful takeover, during which little blood was spilled,
    soon became known as the “Glorious Revolution”. William and Mary’s reign marked the beginning of huge political changes that have endured into the modern age, with the establishment of parliamentary monarchy.

  • William of Orange's invasion

    William’s huge invasion fleet landed at Torbay,
    Devon. James II had a mental collapse. He persuaded himself that his own troops would lose the war, and he fled to France.

  • William III and Mary II crowned joint sovereigns.

  • Bill of Rights + Toleration Act

    It gave Dissenters the freedom of worship. At the same time, these Acts defined the English monarchy both as Protestant and Parliamentary.