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The aptly named Short Parliament of England was the shortest parliament to sit in any of the United Kingdom’s constituent countries. It sat for just three weeks from 13 April until 5 May 1640. The shortest Parliament of the United Kingdom was the 3rd Parliament elected at the 1806 election. It sat for 138 days from 15 December 1806 until 27 ...
The Long Parliament, which commenced in this reign, had the longest term and the most complex history of any English Parliament. The entry in the first table below relates to the whole Parliament. Although it rebelled against King Charles I and continued to exist long after the King's death, it was a Parliament he originally summoned. An ...
This is a list of the parliaments of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and of England from 1660 to the present day, with the duration of each parliament. The NP number is the number counting forward from the creation of the United Kingdom in 1801 and Great Britain in 1707. Prior to that, the parliaments are counted from the Restoration in 1660.
At the 2015 general election, the period between the dissolution of the previous Parliament and the meeting of the new Parliament was the longest period the United Kingdom had been without a Parliament since 1924. [20] The 2017 general election was called by virtue of a motion for an early general election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
The oldest recorded parliament still in existence is the Althing, the ruling legislative body of Iceland. It was founded in 930 and originally consisted of 39 local chieftains. Abolished in 1800, it was restored by Denmark in 1843. The oldest continuous parliament is the Tynwald of the Isle of Man.
Parliament accepts the King's terms 1 December 1648; Pride's Purge (Start of the Rump Parliament) 7 December 1648; Execution of Charles I 30 January 1649; Excluded members of the Long Parliament reinstated by George Monck 21 February 1660; Having called for elections for a Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament dissolved itself on ...
A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland. The Boydell Press. pp. 10– 15. ISBN 978-1-843-83717-6. Butt, Ronald (1989). A History of Parliament: The Middle Ages. London: Constable. ISBN 0-0945-6220-2. Green, Judith A. (1986). The Government of England under Henry I. Cambridge Studies in ...
The Septennial Act 1715 (1 Geo. 1.St. 2.c. 38), sometimes called the Septennial Act 1716, [3] [4] was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.It was passed in May 1716. [5] It increased the maximum length of a parliament (and hence the maximum period between general elections) from three years to seven.