1642
Jan 4	Attempted arrest of 5 Members. Charles leaves Westminster.
Feb	Bishop's Exclusion Bill
Mar 5	Militia Ordinance.
Mar 19	Charles arrives in York.
Apr 23	Charles fails to enter Hull.
May 20	Edward Lord Lyttelton, then Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal, deserts Parliament, and the Great Seal is surreptitiously conveyed away from Parliament and moved to York.
Jun 3	Nineteen Propositions.
Jun 6	Commissions of Array start to be issued.
Jul 15	Riot in Manchester
Aug 1	Incident at Shepton Mallett
Aug 4	Incident at Marshall's Elm
Aug 22	Charles raises standard at Nottingham.
Aug 2 - Sep 7	Siege of Portsmouth - Goring holds out against Waller
Sep 9	Essex arrives at Northampton to take command of the Parliamentarian army (15000 men)
Sep 13	The King's army moves west from Nottingham - via Derby, to Stafford..then on to Shrewsbury.
Sep 19	Essex's army leaves Northampton and moves west through Coventry, Warwick and Stratford towards Worcester.
Sep 20	King's army arrives at Shrewsbury. He sends Rupert to reinforce Byron at Worcester. When Rupert arrives he orders Byron to withdraw towards Shrewsbury.
Sept 23	Royalist victory at a skirmish at Powick Bridge but Essex occupies Worcester. Rupert returns to Shrewsbury.	Royalist victory
Oct 23	The battle of Edgehill	A draw?
Oct 27	Royalists capture Banbury	Royalist victory
Oct 29	Charles enters Oxford - his capital for the rest of the war.
Nov 3	Charles leaves Oxford and heads towards London.
Nov 4	Royalists occupy Reading
Nov 8	Essex's army arrives back in London.
Nov 12	Royalists capture Brentford
Nov 13	Essex halts Royalists at Turnham Green.	Stand-off
Nov 19	Charles withdraws to Reading.
Dec 3	Lord Grandison occupied Marlborough, hoping to disrupt trade between London and Bristol.
Dec 13	Waller takes Winchester from Lord Grandison.	Parliamentarian gain
Dec 27	Waller takes Chichester