Events
- King Charles I opens a Royalist 'parliament' at Oxford.
- 26 January - First English Civil War: At the Battle of Nantwich the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists.
- 21 March - First English Civil War: Prince Rupert effects the Relief of Newark.
- 29 March - First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Cheriton.
- 20 April–14 June - First English Civil War: Royalists besiege Lyme Regis. They do not take the town, but destroy twenty ships.
- 25 May - First English Civil War: Royalist forces under Prince Rupert storm and take Stockport and cross the Mersey.
- 28 May - First English Civil War: Bolton Massacre: Royalist forces under Prince Rupert kill several hundreds of the town's defenders.
- 29 June - First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
- 2 July - The Battle of Marston Moor, the largest battle of the English Civil War, produces a crushing victory for the Parliamentary side, ending Charles I's hold on the north of England.
- 14 July - Queen Henrietta Maria leaves the country for France.
- 16 July - First English Civil War: Parliamentary forces capture York.
- 2 September - Second Battle of Lostwithiel, the last major victory for Charles I and the Royalist side in the English Civil War.
- 22 October - Newcastle upon Tyne captured by a Scottish army led by Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven.
- 27 October - First English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Second Battle of Newbury.
- 23 November - John Milton's Areopagitica is published.
- 19 December - The House of Commons passes the Self-denying Ordinance.
- 25 December - Christmas falls on a date set aside for fasting by Parliament, whose supporters are enjoined to observe the fast.
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