Dates of Key Events (End of Personal rule - End of First Civil War)

Question 1

King Charles summons short parliament - ending his personal rule

Answer 1

April 1640

Question 2

Treaty of Ripon - Ends Bishops War

Answer 2

October 1640

Question 3

Charles summons long parliament - desperately in need of money

Answer 3

November 1640

Question 4

Earl of Strafford impeached by Parliament

Answer 4

November 1640

Question 5

House of Commons declares Ship money an illegal tax

Answer 5

December 1640

Question 6

Archbishop Laud is impeached

Answer 6

December 1640

Question 7

Triennial act passed

Answer 7

February 1641

Question 8

Charles assents to thhe act of attainder against Strafford

Answer 8

May 1641

Question 9

Earl of Strafford executed

Answer 9

May 1641

Question 10

Grand Remonstrance presented to King Charles

Answer 10

December 1641

Question 11

King Charles fails to arrest the 5 members, and is forced to abandon London

Answer 11

January 1642

Question 12

Parliament passes the Militia Ordinance

Answer 12

March 1642

Question 13

Royalists prevented from entering Hull

Answer 13

April 1642

Question 14

King Charles issues the Commissions of Array

Answer 14

June 1642

Question 15

Nineteen propositions are passed by Parliament and later rejected by the King

Answer 15

June 1642

Question 16

The Navy declares its support for the Parliamentarians

Answer 16

July 1642

Question 17

King Charles raises the royal standard at Nottingham castle, officially starting the war

Answer 17

August 1642

Question 18

Battle of Edgehill

Answer 18

October 1642

Question 19

Royalist advance on London halted at Turnham Green, Royalists withdraw to Oxford

Answer 19

November 1642

Question 20

Battle of Adwalton Moor - secures Yorkshire for the Royalists

Answer 20

June 1643

Question 21

Battle of Braddock Down secures Cornwall for the Royalists

Answer 21

January 1643

Question 22

Royalists begin the siege of Gloucester

Answer 22

August 1643

Question 23

Bristol falls for the Royalists

Answer 23

July 1643

Question 24

The Earl of Essex relieves the siege of Gloucester

Answer 24

September 1643

Question 25

First Battle of Newbury

Answer 25

September 1643

Question 26

Solemn League and Covenant is signed

Answer 26

September 1643

Question 27

John Pym dies

Answer 27

December 1643

Question 28

Scottish begin to invade England

Answer 28

January 1644

Question 29

Committee for both Kingdoms is formed

Answer 29

February 1644

Question 30

Trial of Archbishop Laud begins in London

Answer 30

March 1644

Question 31

Battle of Cheriton - Parliament have their first decisive victory of the war

Answer 31

March 1644

Question 32

The allied Scottish and Parliamentarian armies lay siege to York

Answer 32

April 1644

Question 33

Battle of Marston Moor - Royalists lose Northern England

Answer 33

July 1644

Question 34

Second Battle of Newbury

Answer 34

October 1644

Question 35

Oliver Cromwell presents his complaints about the leadership of the Earl of Manchester to the House of Commons

Answer 35

November 1644

Question 36

Execution of Archbishop Laud

Answer 36

January 1645

Question 37

New Model Army formed

Answer 37

February 1645

Question 38

Self Denying Ordinance

Answer 38

April 1645

Question 39

Battle of Naseby

Answer 39

June 1645

Question 40

Battle of Langport - NMA advances into the west country

Answer 40

July 1645

Question 41

Fall of Bristol to the Parliamentarians

Answer 41

September 1645

Question 42

Covenanter army besieges Newark

Answer 42

November 1645

Question 43

Battle of Torrington - Western Royalist army defeated

Answer 43

February 1646

Question 44

King Charles surrenders to the Covenanter army near Newark

Answer 44

May 1646

Question 45

King Charles flees from Oxford disguised as a servant as the NMA approach

Answer 45

April 1646