The nucleus from which parliament arose consisted of the officers of the king's household, his judges, and such of the clergy and great barons as the king might choose to summon. Occassionally, the knights of the shire, bughers and lower clergy were also summoned.
| 1215.Jun.19 | | The Magna Carta sealed at Runnymede by King John to stave off civil war with the barons |
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| 1258 | | The Provisions of Oxford issued by the Parliament which met there
The barons led by Simon de Monfort force reforms on Henry III. This is the first legal document produced in English since the Norman Conquest |
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| 1265 | | Simon de
Monforts Parliament |
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| 1295 | | The
Model Parliament was summoned by Edward I |
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| 1307 | | Christchurch in Dorset starts to send 2 MPs to parliament |
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| 1377 | | Election of the first Speaker of Parliament |
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| 1401 | | Parliament first (-1406) accuses Henry IV of fiscal mismanagement
Parliament gradually acquired new powers over royal expenditures and appointments |
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| 1406.Mar.01 | | Henry IV calls parliament to assemble |
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| 1406.Dec.22 | | Henry IV dismissed parliament - the longest parliament to have sat in Mediaeval England |
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| 1485.Nov | | Henry VIIs title recognised
by parliament |
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| 1494 | | Poynings\' Law is passed in Ireland subjecting all Irish Parliaments to the jurisdiction of the English Privy Council |
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| 1508 | | Cornwall granted the Charter of Pardon by king Henry VII guaranteeing the rights of the Cornish Stannary Parliament - still extant as legislation |
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| 1515 | | Parliament, the House of Lords filled with clergy, refused to renew the Criminous Clerks Act (stating that hangers-on to clergy should be tried in the Kings Court instead of church courts) |
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| 1534.Nov.03 | | Act of Supremacy; Henry VIII splits from Rome, Parliament establishes the Church of England declares the English monarch its head and protector
Subjets are required to swear an oath of loyalty and reject Papal authority (churchmen who refuse the oath such as Sir Thomas Moore are executed) |
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| 1536 | | Parliamentary election; Henry VIII requests the re-election of the previous members |
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| 1536.Apr.14 | | Dissolution of the Reformation Parliament |
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| 1536.Jul.01 | | Mary and Elizabeth declared illegitimate by Parliament |
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| 1539 | | Parliament gives Henry VIII\\\'s proclamations the force of law |
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| 1543 | | Wales divided into 12 counties; counties and boroughs send MPs to parliament |
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| 1555 | | Parishes made responsible for maintaining roads within their boundaries by Act of parliament
The Act required that each able-bodied householder should provide four days labour annually towards the repair of the roads within the parish (increased to six days in 1691) |
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| 1572 | | Parliament licenses theatrical troupes
(The promotion of secular drama and an advance toward the professionalism of theatrical activity) |
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| 1625.Mar.27+ | | Parliament gave Charles I tonnage and poundage but only for one year |
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| 1629.Mar.10 | | Charles I dissolves parliament, asserting
absolute rule until 1640 |
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| 1634.Oct | | Charles I levies ship money without the consent of parliament, ostensibly for the provision and equipping of ships for the defence of the coast and maintaining command of the sea, but in fact, merey a means of raising crown revenues |
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| 1640.May.05 | | Charles I dissolves the Short Parliament (April 13th-) |
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| 1640.Nov.03 | | The Long Parliament called by king Charles I
The parliament sat through the Civil War (1640-1645), the execution of Charles I and the Interregnum or Commonwealth which followed to be dissolved on March 14th, 1660 |
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| 1641 | | Charles I forced by the Long Parliament to execute his favourite and adviser, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, by Bill of Attainder |
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| 1641 | | Triennial Act passed by the Long Parliament requiring Parliament meet for at least a 55-day session once every 3 years (to prevent the King ruling without Parliament)
The Act was repealed in 1664 |
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| 1642.Jan.04 | | Charles I unsuccessfully attempts to arrest 5 members of parliament
They were spirited away before the royal troops arrived |
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| 1643 | | The Long Parliament enforced censorship on printers and publishers |
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| 1643.Jun | | Sir Walter Earl attempts unsuccessfully to storm Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck for parliament |
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| 1644.Apr | | A musket discharged into a gable destroyed 144 houses at Beaminster
Parliament petitioned for �2,000 |
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| 1644.Apr | | Parliament captures Christchurch, Dorset |
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| 1644.Sep.02 | | Phillip Skippon surrenders Parliamentary forces leaving Charles I in control of Devon and Cornwall
Essex and Lord Robartes had slipped away to Plymouth on a small boat. The 6,000 parliamentarian troops disarmed now and allowed to leave - they marched to Southampton and Portsmouth but 5,000 died en-route of starvation and exposure |
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| 1645 | | Exeter beseiged by Parliamentarian forces |
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| 1645.Jun.13 | | Parliament wins the Battle of Naseby and, effectively, the Civil War |
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| 1645.Sep.11 | | Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol to Parliamentary forces |
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| 1646 | | Parliamentary army enters Cornwall led by Fairfax |
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| 1646.Feb | | Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck falls to Parliamentary forces by treachery |
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| 1646.Apr.09 | | Exeter surrenders to Parliamentary forces (Fairfax and Cromwell) |
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| 1649.Jan.19 | | Start of the trial of Charles I by parliament |
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| 1649.Jan.30 | | Execution of Charles I for treason outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall - beheaded by the hangman Richard Brandon
Cromwell allowed the head to be sown back onto the body for the sake of the royal family |
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| 1653.Jul.04 | | First sitting of the Barebones Parliament consisting of members nominated by separatist congregations |
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| 1653.Dec.16 | | Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament and became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, effectively a military dictator |
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| 1654.Sep.03 | | reublican party in Parliament question Cromwell\'s pre-eminence
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| 1654.Sep.12 | | Cromwell orders the exclusion of members of Parliament who are hostile to him
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| 1657 | | Oliver Cromwell offered the crown by his Second Parliament |
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| 1664 | | Repeal of the Triennial Act (passed 1641) |
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| 1678 | | Test Act extended to Members of Parliament (-1866) |
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| 1685 | | Licensing Act, controlling printers andpublishers revived
Parliament refused to renew the Act in 1695 |
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| 1689.Jan.28 | | English Parliament declares the abdication of
King James II
James II had fled Britain in December |
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| 1689.Oct.25 | | Bill of Rights (An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown) signed by by William of Orange and Mary II in return for confirmation as rulers of WEngland and Ireland by Parliament |
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| 1691 | | The requirement that each able-bodied householder
should provide four days labour annually towards the repair of the roads within the
parish (established by an Act of Parliament in 1555) was increased to six days |
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| 1695 | | Parliament refuses to renew the Licensing Act controlling the press |
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| 1707 | | Act of Union; English and Scottish parliaments united with the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain |
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| 1716 | | The English parliament prolonged its life from
three to seven years by the Septennial Act |
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| 1736 | | Act of Parliament allows those convicted of fortune telling to be imprisoned for a year |
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| 1736 | | Parliament repealed the law, already obsolete in practice, condemning a convicted witch to death. While being a witch was not illegal, pretenses to such arts and powers were made illegal
The measure caused considerable indignation amongst the uneducated majority of the population.
The Act was repealed in 1951 |
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| 1751 | | Parliament adopts the use of the Gregorian
Calendar in Great Britain |
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| 1766 | | Chatham proposes reforms to parliamentary elections to weaken the rotten boroughs |
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| 1785 | | Pitt proposes reforms to parliamentary elections to weaken the rotten boroughs |
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| 1791 | | Act of Parliament requiring registration of Roman Catholic chapels with the Quarter Sessions |
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| 1792 | | Act of parliament passed for the construction of a pier at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes and work commenced immediately |
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| 1803 | | Opening of the the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway - the first railway in Britian to be sanctioned by Parliament |
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| 1807 | | The parliamentary election for the county of York cost �200,000 - a record sum |
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| 1812 | | Act of Parliament requires nonconformist meeting houses to be registered three registering authorities |
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| 1829 | | Catholic Emancipation Act gives non-Anglicans the right to sit in Parliament |
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| 1830 | | Wellington denies the need for parliamentary reform and announces he will resist any such measures |
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| 1831 | | Parliament dissolved by William IV in person
A majority in favour of electoral reform returned |
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| 1832 | | Christchurch in Dorset sends only 1 MP toparliament - the constituency is enlarged |
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| 1836 | | Parliamentary Return of Dissenting Meeting Houses and Roman Catholic Chapels in England and Wales records all registered Nonconformist meeting houses and chapels |
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| 1841 | | Justices of the Peace permitted to help turnpike trusts from parish rates where necessary by Act of Parliament
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| 1856 | | Act of Parliament establishes a board of Improvement Commissioners to administer the mushrooming town of Bournemouth |
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| 1864 | | Parliament starts to dissolve the less efficient turnpike trusts throwing the cost on the parish rate |
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| 1895 | | Poole Harbour Commisssioners established by Parliament to manage and develop the run-down port |
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| 1896 | | Liskeard-Looe Union Canal Company becomes a railway company by Act of Parliament |
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| 1963.Jun.05 | | Resignation of John Perfumo, Secretary of State for War, admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with a prostitute |
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| 1982.Aug.23 | | Lebanese parliament elects Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel as president
(Gemayel was assassinated some three weeks later) |
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| 1990.Sep.20 | | East and West German parliaments ratify a treaty for the unification of the two Germanies on October 3
The Bundestag voted 442 to 47, the Eat Germans by 299 to 80
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| 1993.Aug.06 | | Morihiro Hosokawa elected the new prime minister of Japan by the countrys lower
house of parliament |
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| 2002.Mar | | House of Commons votes to ban fox hunting by 386 to 175 votes |
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