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24 March 1603
Accession of James I
14 January 1604
Hampton Court Conference
5 November 1605
Gunpowder Plot
14 September 1607
Plantation of Ulster
16 September 1620
Voyage of the Mayflower
27 March 1625
Accession of Charles I
23 August 1628
Assassination of Buckingham
2 March 1629
Charles dissolves Parliament
6 August 1633
Laud becomes archbishop
12 June 1637
Ship Money tax
23 July 1637
Scots revolt
28 February 1638
Covenant signed
13 April 1640
Short Parliament
20 August 1640
Second Bishops' War
3 November 1640
Long Parliament
12 May 1641
Strafford executed
23 October 1641
Ulster Rising
4 January 1642
Arrest of the five members
22 August 1642
Civil war begins
25 September 1643
Solemn League and Covenant
28 October 1647
Putney Debates
15 November 1647
Mutiny at Ware
27 December
1647
Treaty of Engagement
6 December 1648
Pride's Purge
20 January 1649
Charles on trial
30 January 1649
Charles executed
17 March 1649
Abolition of the monarchy
15 May 1649
More Leveller mutinies
1 January 1651
Charles II crowned
20 April 1653
Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
4 July 1653
Barebones Parliament
16 December 1653
Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
12 March 1655
Penruddock's Rising
25 May 1657
Humble Petition and Advice
3 September 1658
Cromwell dies
25 May 1660
Restoration of the monarchy
12 April 1665
Great Plague of London begins
2 September 1666
Great Fire of London begins
13 November 1666
Pentland Rising
29 March 1673
Test Act
6 September 1678
Popish Plot
21 March 1679
Exclusion Crisis
1 June 1683
Rye House Plot
6 February 1685
Accession of James II
8 July 1685
Monmouth's Rising
5 November 1688
Glorious Revolution
22 January 1689
Bill of Rights
1 July 1690
Battle of the Boyne
13 February 1692
Massacre of Glencoe
27 July 1694
Bank of England set up
12 June 1701
Act of Settlement
8 March 1702
Death of William III
4 May 1702
War of the Spanish Succession
1 May 1707
Act of Union (England and Scotland)
23-24 March 1708
Abortive Scottish landing by Old Pretender
5 November 1709
Sacheverell Affair
1 August 1714
Queen Anne dies
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