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