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The Petition of Right, passed on 7 June 1628, is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689. [1]
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the third parliament in the reign of King Charles I in 1628. The third parliament began on 16 March 1628 and was held to 26 June 1628. The second session of this parliament began at Westminster on 20 January 1629 and was held to 2 March 1629 when it was adjourned to 10 March and then ...
The 3rd Parliament of King Charles I was summoned by King Charles I of England on 31 January 1628 and first assembled on 17 March 1628. [1] The elected Speaker of the House of Commons was Sir John Finch , the Member of Parliament for Canterbury .
1628 – Charles recalls Parliament; Parliament draws up Petition of Right which Charles reluctantly accepts. John Felton murders George Villiers in Portsmouth. 1629 – Charles dismisses Parliament and does not call it again until 1640, thus commencing the Personal Rule; 1633 – William Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
The siege of La Rochelle (French: le siège de La Rochelle, or sometimes le grand siège de La Rochelle) was a result of a war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627–1628.
He served as the Member of Parliament for Rochester, Kent from 1628 to 1629. [ 2 ] Brooke married twice; his first wife was Pembroke Lennard (daughter of Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre and Chrysogona Baker, daughter of Sir Richard Baker ), [ 3 ] and his second wife was Penelope Hill, daughter of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough, County Down ...
The Battle of Wolgast was an engagement in the Thirty Years' War, fought on 22 August [5] or 2 September [6] 1628 near Wolgast, Duchy of Pomerania, Germany. [nb 1]Danish forces of Christian IV of Denmark-Norway had made landfall on Usedom and the adjacent mainland, and expelled the imperial occupation forces.
The War of the Mantuan Succession, from 1628 to 1631, was caused by the death in December 1627 of Vincenzo II, last male heir from the House of Gonzaga, long-time rulers of Mantua and Montferrat. These territories controlled the Spanish Road, a route that allowed Habsburg Spain to move recruits and supplies from Italy to their army in Flanders.