timeline of england

  • Jan 1, 1558

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    Queen Elizabeth I starts to rule England.
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    William Shakespeare is born and later becomes one of the world's most famous authors.
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    Elizabeth I dies and leaves a huge debt for her successors. James Stuart becomes the king of England
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    A company of London invaders receive a charter to found a colony in North America
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    The English reach to the cast of Virginia and found Jamestown.
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    The pilgrims found the second english colony
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    James I dies and his son Charles I takes his place
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    Charles I dissolves parliament
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    charles tried to force the pesby term scots to accept a version of the anglincan church
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    civil war
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    cromwell's modle army defeated the cavaliers
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    the cromwells held the king prisioner
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    cromwell and puritans brought charels to trail, and sentenced him to death
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    cromwell held power and he abolished monarchy
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    cromwell landed on the shores of the irish and crushed the uprising
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    cromwell died and a new parliment was selected
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    charles II began to rule
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    charles II gave his brother permision to drive out the dutch. they succeded
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    law gave prisonerz the right to have a dog or with staiting that each pris had the right to specify the charges
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    charles II died and james II became king
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    james older dauther mary was a protestant that marry william the orange prince of netherlands
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    William and Mary are invited to overthrow James, but when William led his army to London, James fled to France.
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    From this year on, any monarch can lead without the parliment's consent.
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    To make clear the limit of royal power, parliment drafts a Bill of Rights
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    England and Scotland are united
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