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Chronology - Joyce Lee Malcom, The Struggle for Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century English Political Tracts, vol. 2 [1999]

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The Struggle for Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century English Political Tracts, 2 vols, ed. Joyce Lee Malcolm (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999). Vol. 2.

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Chronology

1603Accession of James I (King James VI of Scotland).
1604Hampton Court Conference.
1605Gunpowder Plot.
1618Outbreak of Thirty Years War.
1625Death of James I; accession of Charles I.
1627Five Knights’ Case.
1628Parliament meets. Petition of Right.
1629England begins eleven-year period without a parliament.
1633Appointment of Archbishop Laud.
1634First levy of ship money.
1637King wins Ship Money Case, 7 judges for, 5 against.
1638Scottish National Covenant.
1639First Bishops’ War.
1640Short Parliament meets in April. Long Parliament meets in November.
1641Uprising in Ireland, massacre of Protestants.
1642Outbreak of civil war.
1643Solemn League and Covenant. Scots enter war in England.
1645New Model Army created.
1646Charles surrenders.
1647Charles captured by army. Army debates at Putney.
1648Second civil war. Pride’s Purge.
1649Charles tried and executed. Monarchy and House of Lords abolished. England declared a commonwealth.
1650Engagement Oath required. Charles II and Scots defeated at Dunbar.
1651Charles II and Scots defeated at Worcester. Charles flees to France.
1653Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament. Instrument of Government drawn up. Cromwell becomes Lord Protector.
1654First Protectorate Parliament.
1655Penruddock’s uprising.
1656Rule of Major Generals. Second Protectorate Parliament.
1657Cromwell refuses crown.
1658Cromwell dies. Richard Cromwell becomes Protector.
1659Richard Cromwell resigns. Rump Parliament recalled. George Monck marches with army to London.
1660Long Parliament recalled. Convention Parliament summoned. Charles II invited back. Monarchy restored. Trial of regicides.
1661Cavalier Parliament meets. Passage Militia Act, Corporation Act.
1662Passage Uniformity Act. Trial of Sir Henry Vane.
1670Secret Treaty between Charles II and Louis XIV.
1672Charles issues Declaration of Indulgence.
1673Test Act.
1678Second Test Act.
1680Exclusion Bill introduced.
1683Rye House Plot. Trial of William Lord Russell, Algernon Sidney. Oxford decrees condemn all resistance.
1685Charles II dies. Accession of James II.
1687James II issues Declaration of Indulgence.
1688Seven Bishops Trial. Arrival of William of Orange. Glorious Revolution.
1689Convention Parliament meets. Bill of Rights. Accession of William and Mary.