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| 1611 |
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| Plantation of Ulster, which was forfeited to the crown by the rebellion of Tyrone. | 1 |
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| 1611 |
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| Completion of the translation of the Bible, which was authorized by the king and had occupied 47 ministers since 1604. | 2 |
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| 1614, April 5–June 7 |
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| Second parliament of James I. Three hundred new members, among whom were John Pym (Somersetshire), Thomas Wentworth (Yorkshire), John Eliot (St. Germains). The whole session was spent in quarreling with the king over the impositions, and parliament was dissolved without making an enactment, whence it is called the Addled Parliament. | 3 |
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| 1615 |
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| Rise of George Villiers in the king's favor; Viscount Villiers, earl, marquis, duke of Buckingham. | 4 |
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| 1621, Jan. 30–1622, Feb. 8 |
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| Third parliament of James I. The parliament granted a supply for the prosecution of the war in the Palatinate (See The Thirty Years' War), in which James was halfhearted, and then took up the subject of grievances. Impeachment of Francis Bacon (1561–1626), famous essayist and writer on scientific method, lord chancellor since 1618. Bacon admitted that he had received presents from parties in suits but denied that they had affected his judgment. He was fined £40,000 (which was remitted) and declared incapable of holding office in the future. Petition of the commons against popery and the Spanish marriage. The angry rebuke of the king for meddling in affairs of state drew from the parliament. | 5 |
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| 1621, Dec. 18 |
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| The GREAT PROTESTATION: “That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England, and that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the king, state, and defense of the realm … are proper subjects and matter of council and debate in parliament.” The king tore the page containing the protestation from the journal of the commons, dissolved parliament (Feb. 8, 1622), and imprisoned Southampton, Coke, Pym, and Selden. | 6 |
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| 1623 |
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| Charles, prince of Wales, and the duke of Buckingham went to Spain and negotiated a marriage treaty, the provisions of which were so favorable to the Catholics as to excite great dissatisfaction in England. | 7 |
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| 1624, Feb. 12–1625, March 27 |
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| Fourth parliament of James I. The Spanish marriage was broken off, but even the anger of Buckingham could not drive the parliament into a declaration of war with Spain. Supplies voted for defense. Mansfeld raised 1,200 men in England who reached Holland, but nearly all perished there from lack of proper provisions. This was, in fact, a breach with Spain. Marriage treaty with France for the marriage of Prince Charles with Henriette Marie, sister of Louis XIII. | 8 |
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| 1625–49 |
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| CHARLES I. | 9 |
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| 1625, May 11 |
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| Marriage of Charles I and Henriette Marie. Ships sent to Louis XIII secretly engaged not to fight against the Huguenots. | 10 |
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| 1625 |
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| First parliament of Charles I. (Assembled on June 18; adjourned to Oxford on July 11; dissolved on Aug. 12.) Grant of tonnage and poundage for one year only, and of £140,000 for the war with Spain. | 11 |
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| 1626, Feb. 6–June 15 |
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| Second parliament of Charles I. Charles had hoped for a more pliable parliament, as he had appointed several of the leaders of the first parliament sheriffs and so kept them out of the second. But this parliament, under the lead of Sir John Eliot, was more intractable than the last. Charges against Buckingham, on which that lord was impeached (May). Imprisonment of Sir John Eliot and Sir Dudley Digges, who were set at liberty only upon the refusal of parliament to proceed to business without them. | 12 |
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