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There were two calendars in use during the seventeenth century. Continental Europe used the Gregorian or New Style system of dating, while England clung to the Julian or Old Style calendar and was thus ten days behind the rest of Europe. In this book I have used New Style for Continental events, Old Style for those in England and Scotland, indicating when the two overlap.
1640 | |
3 November | Long Parliament meets |
1641 | |
22 March | Trial of the Earl of Strafford opens in Westminster Hall |
2 May | Wedding of Princess Mary and Prince William of Orange |
3 May | Parliamentary Committee set up to investigate so-called Army Plot |
10 May | The king consents to Act of Attainder against Strafford |
12 May | Execution of Strafford |
10 August | The king goes to Scotland |
23 October | Rebellion breaks out in Ireland |
25 November | The king welcomed in the City on his return from Scotland |
1642 | |
4 January | Attempted arrest of the Five Members |
10 January | The king and queen leave Whitehall for Hampton Court |
23 February | The queen and Princess Mary sail for Holland |
19 March | The king enters York |
23 April | The king refused entry to Hull |
August | John Hutchinson and others prevent the Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant from commandeering Nottinghams powder magazine |
22 August | Royal Standard raised at Nottingham |
War begins | |
23 October | Battle of Edgehill |
13 November | Royal army retreats from Turnham Green |
29 November | The king settles into winter quarters at Oxford |
1643 | |
22 February | The queen lands at Bridlington and is bombarded by the parliamentary ships |
7 March | The queen arrives at York |
18 March | The Earl of Derby storms Lancaster |
30 April | Lord Derby defeated at Whalley |
1 May | Unsuccessful attempt to surprise Corfe Castle |
28 May | Siege of Wardour Castle |
23 May | The Commons impeach the queen |
4 June | The queen leaves York |
18 June | Action at Chalgrove Field |
23 June | Siege of Corfe Castle begins |
30 June | The Earl of Newcastle defeats the Fairfaxes at Adwalton Moor |
Lady Fairfax is taken prisoner | |
5 July | Battle of Lansdown Hill |
13 July | Battle of Roundway Down |
King and queen reunited near Oxford | |
26 July | Siege of Brampton Bryan begins |
27 July | Bristol surrenders to Prince Rupert |
4 August | Siege of Corfe Castle raised |
79 August | Peace demonstrations in London |
10 August | The king begins siege of Gloucester |
8 September | Gloucester relieved by the Earl of Essex |
9 September | Siege of Brampton Bryan raised |
18 September | Royalist raid on Nottingham led by Sir Richard Byron |
20 September | First battle of Newbury |
Lord Falkland and the Earl of Sunderland killed | |
11 October | Battle of Winceby |
31 October | Brilliana Harley dies |
613 November | William Waller assaults Basing House |
30 November | Treaty signed in Edinburgh between parliament and the Estates of Scotland |
8 December | John Pym dies |
1644 | |
16 January | Second Royalist raid on Nottingham led by Sir Charles Lucas |
19 January | First Scots regiments cross the Tweed |
26 January | Battle of Nantwich |
27 February | Siege of Lathom House begins |
17 March | Brampton Bryan Castle falls to the Royalists |
21 March | Prince Rupert defeats Sir John Meldrum at Newark |
29 March | Battle of Alresford (aka Cheriton) |
17 April | The queen leaves Oxford |
AprilJune | Lyme besieged by Prince Maurice |
1 May | The queen reaches Exeter |
18 May | Wedding of Ann Harrison and Richard Fanshawe |
27 May | Siege of Lathom House is raised |
28 May | Bolton sacked by Prince Rupert and the Earl of Derby |
16 June | Birth of Princess Henrietta Anne |
29 June | Battle of Cropredy Bridge |
2 July | Battle of Marston Moor |
10 July | The queen sails from Falmouth |
11 July | Siege of Basing House begins |
25 July | The king at Exeter |
31 August | Battle of Lostwithiel (aka Castle Dore) |
914 September | Relief expedition to Basing House |
27 October | Second battle of Newbury |
19 December | Self-Denying Ordinance passed by the House of Commons |
1645 | |
January | Abortive peace talks between the royalist and parliamentary Commissioners at Uxbridge |
4 March | The Prince of Wales leaves Oxford for Bristol |
FebruaryJuly | Siege of Scarborough Castle |
April | Formation of New Model Army |
20 May | Ann Fanshawe joins her husband with the Prince of Wales at Bristol |
14 June | Battle of Naseby |
10 July | Battle of Langport |
21 August | Basing House besieged by Colonel Dalbier |
10 September | Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol |
13 September | Montrose defeated at Philiphaugh |
24 September | Battle of Rowton Heath |
8 October | Cromwell arrives at Basing |
14 October |
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