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Parliament

England · Warfare / Civil War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1644–1659Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1644

Charles I22 June 1644

Oxford · Warfare / Civil War

The new Parliament includes 100 members of the Commons & 30 peers. Opens his own Parliament in Christ Church Hall

1648

Charles I15 January 1648

London · Warfare / Civil War

Following his Treaty with the Scots Parliament renounces allegiance to Charles I

Thomas Fairfax Cameron, 3rd6 December 1648

London · Warfare / Civil War

Opposes Colonel Thomas Prides purge of Parliament

1659

John Lambert13 October 1659

Warfare / Civil War

Lambert expells the Rump Parliament & institutes military rule through a Committee of Safety

John Lambert26 December 1659

Warfare / Civil War

The Navy mutinied & declared for the Rump, support for Lambert collapsed & the Rump Parliament resumes its sittings

Names involved

Charles IJohn LambertThomas Fairfax Cameron, 3rd

Provenance

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