A Brief War Chronology
1638 & 1640
First and Second Scottish Wars
1642
October 23 - Battle of Edgehill. Charles I defeats Earl of Essex, makes Oxford his capitol but is unable to complete a move towards London.
1644
January 19
- Scottish armies under Lord Leven cross into England and help the Parliamentarians
March 29 - Parliamentarian victory by Sir William Waller
June 29 - Waller is defeated by Royalist forces
July 2 - Royalists lose control of Northern England due to defeats by Lord Fairfax and the Scottish Leven
September 2 - Charles I surrounds Essex and forces an almost complete surrender at Cornwall
October 27 - Parliamenarians try to double forces and initiate a failed attack against Charles II
Late part of 1644 - New Model Army is formed by Parliamentarians
1645
June 14 - New Model Army defeats the main Royalist Army, capturing most of its artillery and foot
July 10 - New Model Army severely attacks and demoralizes Western Cavalier Army causing them to withdraw to Devon and Cornwall
1646
February 16 - Torrington is attacked by New Model Army
March 5 - King gives himself up to the Scots before Newark
March 21 - Astley surrenders
June 24 - Oxford surrenders
1647
Last Royalist stronghold is lost except in the Isles
1648
Second Civil War - Mostly discontented Roundhead soldiers and a Scottish Royalist Army under the Duke of Hamilton
June 1 - Fairfax defeats Royalists of Kent at Maidstone
August 17 - Cromwell defeats Hamilton and Northern Royalists
August 28 -Fairfax defeats Royalists at Colchester
1649
Charles I is tried and executed by beheading on January 30 (Mostly by contrivance of Cromwell)
1649-50
Cromwell's Irish Campaign
1650
September 3 - Cromwell defeats Leslie at Dunbar
1651
September 3 - Charles II defeated at Worchester
1655
Small Royalist uprising lead by Colonel John Penruddock is quickly crushed
1658
September 3 - Oliver Cromwell dies and replaced by his incompetent son
1659
Sire George Booth's uprising is defeated at Winnington Bridge
1660
May 29 - Restoration of King Charles II - Mostly arranged by George Monck and a strong detachment from the English garrison of Scotland