Events
- 30 January - Scots hand over King Charles I to England in return for £40,000 of army back-pay.
- March - Folk dancing and bear-baiting banned.
- 15 March - Harlech surrenders; the last Royalist castle to do so.
- 18 May - The House of Commons decides to disband the Army.
- 4 June - King Charles I taken to Newmarket as a prisoner of the New Model Army.
- June - The Long Parliament passes an Ordinance confirming abolition of the feasts of Christmas, Easter and Whitsun, though making the second Tuesday in each month a secular holiday.
- 2 August - The King rejects the proposals set out in the Heads of Proposals.
- 7 August - Oliver Cromwell takes control of Parliament with the New Model Army, an attempt by Presbyterian MPs to raise the City of London having been unsuccessful.
- 8 August - Irish Confederate Wars: An English Parliamentary army defeats the Irish Confederate's Leinster army.
- 20 August - Parliament passes the Null and Void Ordinance.
- October - The Levellers publish their manifesto Agreement of the People.
- 28 October–11 November - Putney Debates between the New Model Army and Levellers concerning a new national constitution.
- 11 November - The King attempts to escape captivity but is captured and imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight.
- 15 November - Corkbush Field mutiny: two regiments of the New Model Army threaten to mutiny.
- 24 December - Parliament presents the King with new demands which he rejects.
- 25 December - Rioting in Canterbury and elsewhere over the celebration of Christmas.
- 26 December - The King signs a secret treaty with Scotland in which he promises to impose Presbyterianism in England in return for military assistance.
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