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21 June – Inigo Jones, architect (born 1573) 23 August – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, royalist politician (born 1600) September – Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, royalist commander (born 1596)
1625 England and Scotland – Death of James VI and I on 27 March; 1639 England and Scotland – At war until 1644 in what become known as the Bishops' Wars; 1640 England – The Long Parliament summoned. 1642 England – English Civil War begins (see Timeline of the English Civil War) 1652 England – Tea arrives in Britain
Battle of Flodden Field: Invading England, King James IV of Scotland and thousands of other Scots were killed in a defeat at the hands of the English. 1516 18 February Mary I, the future queen of England (r. 1553-1558), is born to parents Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. 1521: Lutheran writings begin to circulate in England. 1527 21 May
3 September – Battle of Worcester takes place after Charles II has raised an army (largely from Scotland) and invaded England. It results in his defeat by Cromwell and the king escaping abroad. [5] 1652: 17 June – A large fire breaks out in Glasgow, which destroys around a third of the city and leaves approximately 1,000 families homeless. [7]
King Edmund, cedes all of England, save Wessex, to Cnut. [1] Following Edmund's death on 30 November, Cnut ascends to the throne as the sole king of England. Personal union formed between Denmark and England under Danish hegemony. 1026 1026 Battle of Helgeå: Kingdom of England. Canute the Great. Sweden Norway. Anund Jacob Olaf II of Norway ...
In 1652, Lord Protector Cromwell required all foreign warships in the North Sea or the English Channel to lower their colours when encountering English warships. On 29 May 1652, Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp (1598-1653), refused to lower the colours of his ships after encountering an English fleet led by General at Sea Robert Blake (1598
The Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652), also known as the Third Civil War, was the final conflict in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between shifting alliances of religious and political factions in England, Scotland and Ireland.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom