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  2. Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Major Peter Oweh, Common Cryer and Serjeant-at-Arms of the City of London, reading the dissolution proclamation at the Royal Exchange, London, on 31 May 2024. The dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom occurs automatically five years after the day on which Parliament first met following a general election, [1] or on an earlier date by royal proclamation at the advice of the prime ...

  3. Rump Parliament - Wikipedia

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    The Long Parliament began negotiations with King Charles I. The members wanted to restore the king to power, but wanted to limit the authority he had. Charles I conceded militia power, among other things, but he later admitted that it was only so he could escape. [2] [3] In November the negotiations began to fail, and the New Model Army seized ...

  4. Charles I of England - Wikipedia

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    Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.

  5. 2nd Parliament of Charles I - Wikipedia

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    However, among many members of parliament there was a genuine dislike for the Duke of Buckingham. Buckingham had originally been a favourite of James I and had a great deal of contact with Charles while he was growing up. With the accession of Charles as king, Buckingham began to play an ever-growing role in the formulation and execution of policy.

  6. Personal Rule - Wikipedia

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    Charles had already dissolved three Parliaments by the third year of his reign in 1628. [2] After the murder of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was deemed to have a negative influence on Charles' foreign policy, Parliament began to criticize the king more harshly than before. Charles then realised that, as long as he could avoid war ...

  7. Long Parliament - Wikipedia

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    The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, [1] King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640.

  8. 3rd Parliament of Charles I - Wikipedia

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    Matters got so heated that Charles adjourned Parliament by proclamation on 2 March 1629 and had nine of the leading protagonists arrested, one of whom, Sir John Eliot, would die in the Tower of London three years later. [5] Charles then dissolved Parliament in person on the 10 March and was so disillusioned that he did not recall it again until ...

  9. Petition of Right - Wikipedia

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    He dissolved Parliament in 1629, ushering in eleven years of Personal Rule, in which he attempted to regain all the ground lost. [29] For the rest of his reign, Charles used the same tactics; refusing to negotiate until forced, with concessions seen as temporary and reversed as soon as possible, by force if needed. [30]