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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 .
At the beginning of the war, fifty thousand Englishmen inhabited some twenty colonies in the Americas.Most of the colonies were founded in the decade prior to the start of the English Civil War (1642–1651) with the oldest existing being the Colony of Virginia (1607) and its offshoot, Bermuda (1609).
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.
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms Article by Jane Ohlmeyer arguing that the English Civil War was just one of an interlocking set of conflicts that encompassed the British Isles in the mid-17th century; Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars at History Ireland; Englishcivilwar.org News, comment and discussion about the English Civil War
26 January – First English Civil War: at the Battle of Nantwich the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists, ending a week's siege of the Cheshire town. [2] March – Matthew Hopkins begins his career as a witch-hunter in the eastern counties. 21 March – First English Civil War: Prince Rupert effects the Relief of Newark. [3]
After the execution of Charles I in January 1649, the Scots Covenanters proclaimed his son Charles II king of Scotland.They agreed to restore him to the throne of England, which led to the Third English Civil War; although Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army won a series of victories over the Scots during the course of 1650, Charles II was crowned at Scone on 1 January 1651.
The Battle of Alton (also known as the Storming of Alton), [7] of the First English Civil War, took place on 13 December 1643 in the town of Alton, Hampshire, England. [α] There, Parliamentary forces serving under Sir William Waller led a successful surprise attack on a winter garrison of Royalist infantry and cavalry serving under the Earl of ...
Third English Civil War (1650–52) – the supporters of King Charles II against the supporters of the Rump Parliament; Jacobite Rebellions –A Civil war in England, Scotland, and Ireland fought over many years to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.