James I Biography

Marries Anne of Denmark

Acquires the title & estates of the Earl of Warwick

Persuades the Grand Assembly in Scotland to appoint Bishops & increase their authority

While many of the main Puritan goals were rebutted, the Millenary Petition culminates in the Hampton Court Conference, which eventually led James to commission a new English translation of the bible, now known as the King James Version

It is claimed, but not proven, that this petition had 1,000 signatures of Puritan ministers. This carefully worded document expressed Puritan distaste regarding the state of the Anglican Church

The Millenary Petition is a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne.

While many of the main Puritan goals were rebutted, the Millenary Petition culminates in the Hampton Court Conference, which eventually led James to commission a new English translation of the bible, now known as the King James Version.

Accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England as James I

Coronation of James I, great grandson of James IV & Margaret Tudor

James I meets the representitives of the English Puritans, leads to Jamess commissioning of the King James Version of the Bible

In what became known as the Bye Plot, the priests William Watson and William Clark planned to kidnap James and hold him in the Tower of London until he agreed to be more tolerant towards Catholics

Lord Cobham, Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Markham, and Walter Ralegh, hatched what became known as the Main Plot, which involved removing James and his family and supplanting them with Arbella Stuart.

Sir George Brooke is executed, but James, keen not to have too bloody a start to his reign, reprieved Cobham, Grey, and Markham while they were at the scaffold. Ralegh, who had watched while his colleagues sweated, was also reprieved.

James I meets the representitives of the English Puritans, leads to Jamess commissioning of the King James Version of the Bible

Lord Cobham, Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Markham, and Walter Ralegh, hatched what became known as the Main Plot, which involved removing James and his family and supplanting them with Arbella Stuart

The Hampton Court Conference also bore fruit for the Puritans, who insisted that man know Gods word without intermediaries, as it led to Jamess commissioning of that translation of the Christian Bible into the English vernacular, which would be known as the Authorised Version because it alone was authorised to be read in Churches. It is now commonly described as the King James Version

Authorizes the King James Bible

James I orders all Priests out of the realm

Orders all Jesuits and all other Catholic priests to leave the country, and reimposed the collection of fines for recusancy

James I introduces a Bill to classify all catholics as excommunicates

James I introduces a Bill to classify all catholics as excommunicates

Authorises negotiations intended to end the long Anglo-Spanish War soon after his accession to the English throne.

Agrees to end official English military and financial support for the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule.

Accepts treaty obligations ending authorised English attacks on Spanish shipping and revoking wartime letters of reprisal.

Restores formal peaceful relations intended to reopen normal trade and maritime contact with Spanish territories.

Agrees that England will end official assistance to Dutch forces fighting Spanish rule.

Restores peacetime passage for Spanish shipping through waters controlled by England.

Accepts peace terms ending official English wartime attacks on Spanish maritime traffic.

Concludes peace with Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, ending the long Anglo-Spanish War.

James I has Andrew Melville arrested for mocking the English Church

Abolishes the Presbyterian Assembly in Scotland

The letter had been shown to the king on Friday 1 November, James felt that it hinted at "some strategem of fire and powder",perhaps an explosion exceeding in violence the one that killed his father, Lord Darnley, in 1567

The Privy Council tell James that they had decided to undertake a search of Parliament, "both above and below"

The king ordered a second, more thorough search to be made of the undercroft, and at about midnight Fawkes was discovered guarding the gunpowder, and arrested

Londoners celebrate the well-being of their King, James I. Initially an effigy of Pope Paul V is burnt. 1st official Guy Fawkes Night bonfire is lit on the night of the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605

Bonfires are set alight to celebrate the safety of James I. A plot to blow up James I & the Commons is uncovered. A Catholic group led by Guy Fawkes is arrested

A plot to blow up James I & the Commons is uncovered

Fawkes, Wintour, Ambrose, Rookwood & Keyes are hanged, drawn & quartered

Designs the Union Jack with the crosses of St George & St Andrew

Birth of Sophia, James & Annes last child

The Scottish Parliament passes an Act of Union

Has Argyll arrest the leading clansmen of the Hebrides, ends the rebellion

Has Argyll arrest the leading clansmen of the Hebrides, ends the rebellion

Begins moving English & Scottish Protestants into Ulster

Introduces the King James Bible

Reforms the Church in Scotland & sets up his own diocesan system of bishops

James Is daughter Elizabeth marries Frederick, the Elector of the Palatine

Suppresses the rebellion of the MacDonalds

James opens Parliament

James closes Parliament & does not call it up for another 7 yrs

The Addled Parliament had disputed with the King & had not produced any legislation

Death of Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, executed

Has his 2nd cousion, Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, executed

Dismisses Sir Edward Coke for resisting the Royal Prerogative

Declares the 5 Articles of Perth requiring observance of Catholic practices

Publishes a book stating which games can be played after Church on Sundays

Forced to support his son-in-law, Frederick, against Austria & Spain

Has Sir Walter Raleigh executed for conspiring against him

His son-in-law succeeds as King of Bohemia leading to war with the Habsburg monarchy

Has Sir Walter Raleigh executed for conspiring against him

Urges the Palatine elector to refuse the Bohemian crown offered by Prague Protestants

Demonstrates the use of a submersible rowing-boat

James attacks Parliament for "excess of lavish speech in matters of State"

Parliament attacks James Is pro-Spanish policy

Claims the right to punish any Member of Parliament who commits a "misdemeanor"

Opens Parliament for the 1st time in 6 yrs

Rebuked by Parliament, had ordered MPs not to "meddle" in affairs of State. Claims the right to punish any Member of Parliament who commits a "misdemeanor"

Opens Parliament to fund a war in Europe but it makes a grant to the Protestants

Asked by Parliament to defend German Protestants

Asked by Parliament to find a Protestant wife for the Prince of Wales

Tells Parliament "not to meddle with anything concerning Government"

Tells Parliament "not to meddle with anything concerning Government"

Tears out the Parliaments protestations from the Commons journal

Places John Pym under house arrest for hostile remarks in the Commons

Abrogates the Anglo-Spanish Marriage Treaty

Marries his sister Princess Elizabeth to the Elector of the Palatine, Frederick. Builds links to Protestants in Germany & the United Provinces

An act is passed through Parliament declaring monopolies to be illegal

Declares war on Spain after the Commons has granted funds

An agreement is made for the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Henrietta Maria

Publication of "Book of Sports", activities allowed on Sundays after church service

Publication of "Book of Sports", activities allowed on Sundays after church service

James I dies in his country Palace at Theobalds

Charles I attends in state as the chief mourner at Westminster Abbey