1649
Jan 4 Rump Parliament
Jan 8 High Court of Justice meets to discuss the King's trial
Jan 10 Bradshaw appointed President of the High Court of Justice
Jan 13 Charles brought to London
Jan 17 The Second Ormond Peace
Jan 20 The King's trial begins
Jan 21 Rupert sails from Holland
Jan 27 Charles condemned
Jan 30 Charles beheaded at Whitehall
Jan 31 Rupert's fleet at Kinsale
Feb 5 Charles II procalimed King at Edinburgh
Feb 6 Abolition of the House of Lords
Feb 7 Abolition of the Monarchy
Feb 13 The Council of State takes over
Feb 26 Lilburne presents England's New Chains Discovered
Mar 9 Hamilton executed
Mar 21 The Hunting of the Foxes
Mar 22 Pontefract Castle surrenders
Mar 26 Lilburne and other Levellers sent to the Tower
Apr 2 Petition for the release of Lilburne
Apr 19 Digger commune broken up at St George's Hill
Apr 27 Execution of Robert Lockier
May 1 Lilburne's Leveller Manifesto
May 13 Leveller mutineers defeated at Burford
May 19 Commonwealth declared by the Council of State
May 21 Blake blockades Rupert's fleet at Kinsale
May 25 Doctor Dorislaus assassinated
Jul 5 Munitions shipped to Ireland
Jul 10 Cromwell leaves London for Ireland
Aug 2 Battle of Rathmines
Aug 15 Cromwell arrives in Dublin
Sep 10 Cromwell arrives in Drogheda
Sep 11 Massacre at Drogheda
Oct 11 Massacre at Wexford
Oct 15 Blake's fleet withdraws to Milford Haven
Oct 20 Rupert sails from Kinsale and heads for Portugal
Oct 25 Lilburne acquitted
Dec 7 Cromwell retires to Youghall for the winter