How England became a constitutional monarchy

By timmycolquett
  • 1707 BCE

    1707

    Although England and Scotland were not united until 1707, they now shared a ruler
  • 1700 BCE

    1700's

    During the 1700s, this potential problem was remedied by the development of a group of government ministers, or officials, called the cabinet
  • 1689 BCE

    1689

    To make clear the limits of royal power,Parliament drafted a Bill of Rights in 1689
  • 1688 BCE

    1688

    When William led his army to London in 1688, James fled to France
  • 1688 BCE

    1688

    In 1688, James’s second wife gave birth to a son
  • 1688 BCE

    1688

    After 1688, no British monarch could rule without the consent of Parliament
  • 1685 BCE

    1685

    In 1685, Charles II died, and James II became king
  • 1685 BCE

    1658

    In 1685, Charles II died, and James II became king
  • 1679 BCE

    1679

    This 1679 law gave every prisoner the right to obtain a writ or document ordering that the prisoner be brought before a judge to specify the charges against the prisoner
  • 1660 BCE

    1660

    When Prince Charles entered London in 1660, crowds shouted joyfully and bells rang
  • 1659 BCE

    1659

    In 1659, Parliament voted to ask the older son of Charles I to rule England
  • 1653 BCE

    1653

    In 1653, Cromwell sent home the remaining members of Parliament
  • 1649 BCE

    1649

    In 1649, Cromwell and the Puritans brought Charles to trial for treason against Parliament
  • 1649 BCE

    1649

    In 1649, he abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords
  • 1649 BCE

    1649

    In 1649,Cromwell landed on Irish shores with an army and crushed the uprising
  • 1647 BCE

    1647

    In 1647, they held the king prisoner
  • 1645 BCE

    1645

    In 1645, Cromwell’s New Model Army began defeating the Cavaliers, and the tide turned toward the Puritans
  • 1644 BCE

    1644

    By 1644 the Puritans found a general who could win who was Oliver Cromwell
  • 1642 BCE

    1642

    Furious, Charles tried to arrest Parliament’s leaders in January 1642,but they escaped
  • 1642 BCE

    1642-1649

    From 1642 to 1649, supporters and opponents of King Charles fought the English Civil War
  • 1641 BCE

    1641

    During the autumn of 1641, Parliament passed laws to limit royal power
  • 1637 BCE

    1637

    In addition, in 1637, Charles tried to force the Presbyterian Scots to accept a version of the Anglican prayer book
  • 1629 BCE

    1629

    In 1629, Charles dissolved Parliament and refused to call it back into session
  • 1628 BCE

    1628

    By 1628, Charles was forced to call Parliament again
  • 1625 BCE

    1625

    In 1625, James I died. Charles I, his son, took the throne
  • 1603 BCE

    1603

    Queen Elizabeth dies in 1603
  • 1603 BCE

    1603

    James Stuart became King James I of England in 1603
  • 1500 BCE

    1500's

    Henry VIII and his children had brought the country firmly under English rule in the 1500s
  • 1290 BCE

    1290

    Cromwell even allowed Jews to return; they had been expelled from England in 1290
  • 1100 BCE

    1100's

    English colonization of Ireland had begun in the 1100s under Henry II