Time Line
- Triennial Act, passed 15 February 1641
- Archbishop William Laud imprisoned 26 February 1641
- Act against Dissolving the Long Parliament without its own Consent 11 May 1641
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford executed May 12, 1641
- Abolition of the Star Chamber 5 July 1641
- Ship Money declared illegal 7 August 1641
- Grand Remonstrance 22 November 1641
- Militia Bill December, 1641
- The King’s answer to the petition accompanying the Grand Remonstrance 23 December 1641
- The King's attempt to seize the five members 4 January 1642
- The King and Royal Family leave Whitehall for Hampton Court. January, 1642
- The King leaves Hampton Court for the North 2 March 1642
- Militia Ordinance agreed by Lords and Commons 5 March 1642
- Parliament decreed that Parliamentary Ordinances were valid without royal assent following the King's refusal to assent to the Militia Ordinance 15 March 1642
- Adventurers Act to raise money to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1641 19 March 1642
- The Solemn League and Covenant 25 September 1643
- Ordinance appointing the First Committee of both Kingdoms 16 February 1644
- The Self-denying Ordinance 4 April 1645
- Parliament accepts the King's terms 1 December 1648
- Pride's Purge (Start of the Rump Parliament) 7 December 1648
- Excluded members of the Long Parliament reinstated by George Monck 21 February 1660
- Having called for elections for a Parliament to meet on 25 April, the Long Parliament dissolved itself on 16 March 1660
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