Long Parliament - Time Line

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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