1646
Jan 2	Charles meets with the French Ambassador Montreuil hoping for armed support.	Charles was seeking a union between the Scots, the English Presbyterians and the French.
Jan 9	Cromwell surprises Royalist horse at Bovey Heath.
Jan 19	Fairfax storms  Dartmouth while Exeter is besieged, and then moves north-west to find Hopton.	Fairfax continues to try to clear the South West of Royalists.
Feb 3	Brereton captures Chester
Feb 16	Hopton is defeated at the Battle of Torrington.
Feb 25	Fairfax enters Launceston
Mar 2	Prince of Wales goes to the Scilly Isles as Fairfax occupies Bodmin.
Mar 14	Hopton surrenders the Royalist army in the west to Fairfax.
Mar 21	The remnants of the army of the West are defeated at Stow.	The last major defeat of the Royalists in the South-West.
Mar 28	The First Ormond Peace treaty with the Irish confederates.
Apr 9	Exeter surrenders to Fairfax.
Apr 13	Prince of Wales sails to Jersey.
Apr 16	John Lilburne arrested
Apr 20	Barnstaple surrenders. Dunster Castle surrenders.
Apr 27	Charles flees from Oxford disguised as a servant.
May 5	The King surrenders to the Scots army at Newark.
May 9	Scots army moves north.
May 13	The Scots arrive at Newcastle with Charles.
Jun 5	Owen Roe O'Neill and his Irish Confederates beat Monroe's Covenanters at the Battle of Benburb.
Jun 24	Oxford surrenders
	Rupert and Maurice flee the country
Jul 7	Richard Overton's petition - 'Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens' appears which reminds Parliament that they were elected by the people and should be answerable to them.	This petition also highlights the King's responsibility for the war and oppression of the people; it questions the powers of the Lords and denounces members of Parliament for perpetuating the oppression of the people and misusing their privileges.
Jul 13	Newcastle Propositions presented to Charles.
Jul 22	Worcester surrenders.
Jul 27	Wallingford Castle surrenders.
Aug 12	The King's reply to the Newcastle Propositions is read in the House of Lords.
Aug 14	Parliament agrees to pay the Scots army £100,000.	The Scots reckoned they were owed £1,300,000 and the haggling starts...
Aug 16	Surrender of Pendennis Castle
Aug 19	Surrender of Raglan Castle
Sep 1	An agreement on a payment of £400,000 to the Scots army is made - half now..and half later.
Sep 3	Montrose flees to Norway
Sep 16	Essex dies after a stroke.
Oct 9	Blasphemy Ordinance passed.
Oct 26	Denbigh Castle surrenders.
Dec 18	Conway Castle surrenders.
Dec 31	Parliament agrees to send the King to Holdenby (Holmby) House in Northamptonshire.