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1 May, "AN AGREEMENT OF THE Free People of England. Tendered as a Peace-Offering to this distressed Nation" extended version from the Leveller leaders, "Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne, Master William Walwyn, Master Thomas Prince (Leveller), and Master Richard Overton, Prisoners in the Tower of London, May the 1. 1649."
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 .
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Conquest of Ireland led by Oliver Cromwell from 1649-1653. English Civil Wars - Series of conflicts over the rule of England which included combatants from Scotland and Ireland as well. First English Civil War - 1642-1646. Second English Civil War - 1648. Third English Civil War - 1649-1651.
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
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 ...
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.
23 September – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Powick Bridge. [4] 23 October – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the War. [1] 29 October – King Charles enters Oxford and establishes his court there. [4] 12 November – Battle of Brentford: Royalist ...
[1] [2] 4 January – The Rump Parliament passes an ordinance to set up a High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I for high treason in the name of the people of England. 20 to 27 January – Trial and conviction of King Charles I by the High Court of Justice convened in Westminster Hall. [3] 30 January