| 1625 | |
| 27 Mar: | Accession of King Charles I |
| 11 May: | King Charles marries Henrietta Maria, sister of King Louis XIII of France |
| 1628 | |
| 28 May: | Petition of Right elaboratesParliament’s grievances |
| 23 Aug: | Murder of Duke of Buckingham |
| 1629 | |
| 3 Mar: | The King dissolves Parliament |
| 1633 | William Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1635 | John Hampden refuses to pay Ship Money |
| 1639 | |
| 28 May: | The King, leading army against the Scots, arrives in Berwick |
| 1640 | |
| 13 April: | Short Parliament assembles |
| 3 Nov: | Long Parliament summoned |
| 1641 | |
| 12 May: | Earl of Strafford executed |
| 23 Oct: | Rebellion breaks out in Ireland |
| 22 Nov: | Grand Remonstrance details Parliament’s further grievances |
| 1642 | |
| 4 Jan: | King attempts to arrest the Five Members of Parliament |
| 10 Jan: | King leaves Whitehall Long Parliament issues Militia Ordinance |
| 1 June: | The Nineteen Propositions issued by Parliament |
| 22 Aug: | King raises standard at Nottingham |
| 23 Sept: | Prince Rupert’s victory at Powick Bridge |
| 23 Oct: | Battle of Edgehill |
| 12 Nov: | Prince Rupert attacks Brentford |
| 13 Nov: | Defence of Turnham Green |
| 1643 | |
| 19 Jan: | Sir Ralph Hopton’s victory at Braddock Down |
| 2 Mar: | Lord Brooke killed at Lichfield |
| 19 Mar: | Lord Northampton killed at Hopton Heath |
| 30 Mar: | Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated on Seacroft Moor |
| 16 May: | Battle of Stratton |
| 18 June: | John Hampden mortally wounded at Chalgrove Field |
| 30 June: | Battle of Adwalton Moor |
| 5 July: | Sir Bevil Grenville killed at Landsdown |
| 13 July: | Battle of Roundway Down |
| 13 July: | King and Queen reunited at Edgehill |
| 26 July: | Royalists take Bristol |
| 18 Sept: | Rupert and Essex clash at Aldbourne Chase |
| 20 Sept: | First Battle of Newbury |
| 25 Sept: | Solemn League and Covenant signed |
| 10 Oct: | Roundhead cavalry rout Cavaliers at Winceby |
| 1644 | |
| 6 Jan: | Hopton recaptures Arundel |
| 19 Jan: | Scottish army invades England |
| 25 Jan: | Battle of Nantwich |
| 21 Mar: | Prince Rupert occupies Newark |
| 29 Mar: | Battle of Cheriton |
| 29 June: | Battle of Cropredy Bridge |
| 2 July: | Battle of Marston Moor |
| 2 Sept: | Battle of Lostwithiel |
| 27 Oct: | Second Battle of Newbury |
| 1645 | |
| 10 Jan: | Archbishop Laud executed |
| Feb: | Establishment of New Model Army |
| 3 April: | House of Lords passes Self-Denying Ordinance |
| 30 May: | Sack of Leicester |
| 14 June: | Battle of Naseby |
| 10 July: | Battle of Langport |
| 11 Sept: | Parliamentarians capture Bristol |
| 13 Sept: | Royalists routed at Philiphaugh |
| 24 Sept: | Battle of Rowton Heath |
| 15 Oct: | Sack of Basing House |
| 1646 | |
| 30 Jan: | Chester surrenders |
| 21 Mar: | Lord Astley defeated at Stow-on-the-Wold |
| 20 June: | Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford |
| 5 May: | The King surrenders to Scots at Newark |
| 1647 | |
| 2 June: | The King seized at Holdenby |
| 17 July: | Army accepts the Heads of the Proposals |
| 28 Oct– | The Army and the Levellers |
| 8 Nov: | engage in the Putney Debates |
| 26 Dec: | The King signs the Engagement with the Scots at Carisbrooke |
| 1648 | |
| 17 Jan: | Parliament breaks off negotiations with the King by the Vote of No Addresses |
| June-Aug: | Siege of Colchester |
| 17-19 Aug: | Battle of Preston |
| 20 Nov: | Remonstrance of the Army laid before Parliament |
| 6 Dec: | Colonel Pride purges Parliament |
| 1649 | |
| 30 Jan: | Execution of the King |
| 1650 | |
| 3 Sept: | Cromwell defeats Scots at Dunbar |
| 1651 | |
| 3 Sept: | Battle of Worcester |
| 1653 | |
| 4 July: | The Parliament nominated by Cromwell, ‘Barebone’s Parliament’, assembles |
| 1655 | |
| Mar: | Penruddock’s Rising suppressedInstitution of Major-generals |
| 1658 | |
| 3 Sept: | Death of Cromwell |
| 1660 | |
| 4 April: | Charles II issues Declaration of Breda |
| 29 May: | Charles returns to London |
