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21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army; 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire; 6 May, Newark fell to the Parliamentarians
The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. [a] An estimated 15% to 20% of adult males in England and Wales served in the military at some point between 1639 and 1653, while around 4% of the total population died from war-related causes.
Bishops' Wars: A war with Scotland began which would last until 1640. 1640: Long Parliament: The Parliament was convened. 1642: The English Civil War began (see timeline of the English Civil War). 1649: January: Trial and execution of Charles I: 1649: Interregnum began with the First Commonwealth. 1650 4 November
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
Second Barons' War in England, the Royals on the left vs. the Barons on the right.(British Library, Royal 16 G VI f. 427v)This is a list of civil wars that have occurred in the history of England.
1642: 23 October: the Battle of Edgehill, the inconclusive first battle in the English Civil War; 1643: Ceasefire between the English Royalists and Irish Confederates declared; 1643: 25 September: an alliance between the English Parliament and the Scottish Covenanters — the Solemn League and Covenant — declared. Scottish troops march into ...
11 October – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire. [2] 13 December – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Alton in Hampshire. [2] 25 December – Christmas Island is sighted and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company's ship Royal Mary. [6]
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom