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21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army; 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire; 6 May, Newark fell to the Parliamentarians
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.
11 October – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire. [2] 13 December – First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Alton in Hampshire. [2] 25 December – Christmas Island is sighted and named by Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company's ship Royal Mary. [6]
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.
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 ...
Civil War, Parliamentarian victory. Bishops' Wars (1639) Covenanters defeat Scottish Royalists and England; Second Bishops' War (1640) Covenanters defeat Scottish Royalists and England; Irish Rebellion of 1641. Founding of the Irish Catholic Confederation and beginning of the Irish Confederate Wars; First English Civil War (1642–46)
History is full of iconic moments, some that shaped the world and others that defined entire eras. From the birth of groundbreaking inventions to the rise of legendary icons, each moment has its ...
First Barons' War (1215–1217) – a civil war in the Kingdom of England in which a group of rebellious barons, led by Robert Fitzwalter and supported by a French army under the future Louis VIII of France, made war on King John of England.