England 1625-1660

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Date/period

Event(s)

1625:
March

May

Sept

Charles I King
Parliament only vote 2 subsidies worth £140,000
Tonnage and Poundage only a year (1/4 MPs present, plaugue)
Dissolved after Parl target Buckingham

Marriage to Henrietta Maria

Failure at Cadiz

  1626:
  Feb

  Sept

Parl- opposition made sheriffs
Want to impeach Buckingham- dissolved

York House Conference
Forced Loan (£260,000)
5 Knights (Habues Corpus)

1627:
Oct

Loan from City of London (£350,000) in exchange for crown lands
Failure at Rhe

1628:
June

Aug

Laud Bishop of London
Petition of Right
Commons' Remonstrance
Failure of La Rochelle

Assassiantion of Buckingham

1629:
March

April

Charles make religious concessions (recusancy + Abbot Privy Council)
John Eliot 3 resolutions
Dissolution of Parliament -Personal Rule starts

Treaty of Souza

1630:
November

1631:

1632:

Wentworth Lord Deputy Ireland

1633:
June
Aug

Charles coronation in Edinburgh
Laud ArchB of Canterbury

1634:

Wentford implement Graces for subsidies from Parl

1635:

Ship Money- whole country

1636:

1637:

July
Nov

Prayer Book Rebellion Edinburgh
Hampden's Case

1638:
Feb

Nov

Protests against Prayer Book illegal
Scottish Covenant
Scottsih Gen Assembly abolish Bishops

1639:
June

Sept

First Bishop's War

Reurn of Wentford- Earl of Strafford

1640:
April

May

Aug

Oct

Nov

1641:
March

May

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