1625    Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

1625    King Charles I marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France

1628    Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

1628    The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

1640    King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.

1640    Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.

1640    The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.

1642    King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.

1642    From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.

1642    Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.

1644    Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

1645    Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles

1648    England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.

1648    Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".

1649    English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.

1649    Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".

1649    King Charles I of England is beheaded.

1660    Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.

1661    Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.