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1626 – Parliament dismisses George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham from command of English forces in Europe; Charles I, furious, dismisses Parliament.; 1628 – Charles recalls Parliament; Parliament draws up Petition of Right which Charles reluctantly accepts.
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 .
7 September – First English Civil War: Siege of Portsmouth (begun on 10 August) ends with Royalists surrendering the port to Parliament. Battle of Babylon Hill in Dorset, an indecisive skirmish. 23 September – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Powick Bridge. [4]
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
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.
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 ...
3 January – An explosion of several barrels of gunpowder in Tower Street, London kills 67 people and destroys 60 houses. [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.
The term Wars of the Three Kingdoms first appears in A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms by James Heath, published in 1662, [7] but historian Ian Gentles argues "there is no stable, agreed title for the events....which have been variously labelled the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Civil War, the English Revolution and ...