(from list in Christopher Hill and Edmund Dell, eds., The Good Old Cause, 2nd ed.)

1603-1625. Reign of James I

1618-48. Thirty years" War--Spain, Austria, and German catholic princes versus France, Sweden, and German Protestants.

1625. Accession of Charles I

June, 1628. Petition of Right.

August, 1628. Assassination of Duke of Buckingham.

March, 1629.Dissolution of Charles's third Parliament; personal government begins.

1637. Trials of Prynne, Burton, Bastwick and Liblurne.

1637-8. Ship Money case: trial of Hampden.

1639-40. Bishops’ War against Scotland. Scots occupy Northumberland and Durham.

April, 1640. Short Parliament Meets

November, 1640. Long Parliament meets.

1641. Seizure of Power by parliament: Triennial Act, Acts against dissolution without consent, against unparliamentary taxation, abolition of Star Chamber and High Commission, execution of Strafford, imprisonment of Laud, control of armed forces.

November, 1641. Revolt in Ireland.

December, 1641. The Grand Remonstrance.

January, 1642. Attempted arrest of five members.

August, 1642. Charles raises standard at Nottingham.

October, 1642. Battle of Edgehill. Charles advances on London.

1643. Resistance of Parliamentary forces in Hull, Gloucester and Plymouth checks advance on London.

September, 1643. Parliament signs agreement with Scots, Solemn League and Covenant.

January, 1644. Scottish army enters England

July, 1644. Battle of Marston Moor. Great Royalist defeat.

November, 1644. Milton publishes Areopagitica.

April, 1645. Self-denying Ordinance leads to establishment of New Model Army.

June, 1645. Battle of Naseby. Organized Royalist opposition broken.

1646. Parliamentary forces mopping up.

February, 1646. Abolition of feudal tenures and court of wards.

October, 1646. Abolition of episcopacy and sale of Bishops' lands.

March-November, 1647. Agitators in Army.

June, 1647. Cornet Joyce seizes King; General Council of Army set up.

August, 1647. Army occupies London, becomes chief power in land.

Oct.-Nov., 1647. Putney Debates on Agreement of the People.

November, 1647, Defeat of Agitators at Ware, and General Council of Army suppressed.

1648. Second civil war. Scottish army defeated by Cromwell at Preston.

December, 1648. Pride's Purge.

January, 1649. Trial and execution of Charles I.

March-May, 1649. Abolition of House of Lords. Proclamation of Republic.

May, 1649. Leveller revolt defeated at Burford.

1649-50. Cromwell's Irish campaign.

1649-50. Diggers cultivating St. George's Hill.

1649-51. Sale of crown, dean and chapter and cavaliers' lands.

1650. Charles II established in Scotland as King. Cromwell invades Scotland. Battle of Dunbar (Sept).

1651. Charles invades England. Routed at Worcester (Sept)

October, 1651. Navigation Act.

1652-4. Anglo-Dutch War.

April, 1653. Cromwell dissolves Long Parliament.

July-December, 1653. Barebones parliament.

December, 1653. Oliver Cromwell established as Lord Protector.

April, 1654. Union of England and Scotland.

September, 1654-January, 1655. First Protectorate parliament.

1655-60. War with Spain. Blake's fleet sweeps the Mediterranean. Jamaica (1655) and Dunkirk (1658) conquered.

1655-6. Rule of Major-Generals.

September, 1656-February, 1658. Second Protectorate parliament. Crown offered to Oliver. Second chamber established.

September, 1658-April, 1659. On death of Oliver, Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector.

April, 1659-March, 1660. Restoration of Rump of Long Parliament.

August, 1659. Rising of Sir George Booth (Presbyterian) for Charles II defeated.

December, 1659-February, 1660. Monck marches from Scotland to London.

March-April, 1660. Long Parliament dissolved. Convention parliament meets.

April, 1660. Declaration of Breda.

May, 1660. Restoration of Charles II.

1685. Death of Charles II and accession of James II.

1688-9. Glorious Revolution. James II expelled. William III and Mary succeed. Bill of Rights. Parliamentary sovereignty secured.