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Anthony van Dyck, c. 1636
Included as components of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms are:
The Chronology of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms lists major events that occurred during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The presentation of the data in a table format allows interested parties to copy and transfer the data to other software or databases with discrete data fields.
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With respect to the dates provided for the individual events, portions of some dates have been estimated based upon imprecise historical dating (e.g. spring, summer, fall, winter, early in the month, the middle of the month, etc.). In these cases, the dates are shown in red font.
Many of the dates were taken from Wikipedia articles. As of publication of this article in September 2020, the dates of the events in the table are fully consistent with Wikipedia articles associated with the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Some locations were the site of multiple events during the War of the Three Kingdoms. In those cases a numerical count is provided after the name of the location (e.g. Oxford 1st, Oxford 2nd, etc.). If a location was the site of a single event, no numerical count will be shown. A siege of a location is only counted once and will include appropriate notations (e.g. Siege Starts, Siege Continues, and Siege Ends).
In some cases, an event is associated with multiple wars. In those cases, two fields (Primary and Secondary) will be populated.
| Event | Start Date | End Date | Event Location | Associated Wars | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mo. | Day | Year | Mo. | Day | Year | Primary | Secondary | ||
| The Scottish Covenanters defeat the Royalists at Brig of Dee, Aberdeen | 06 | 18 | 1639 | Aberdeen 1st (Brig of Dee) | Bishops' Wars | ||||
| The Scottish Covenanters defeat King Charles I at Newburn | 08 | 28 | 1640 | Newburn | Bishops' Wars | ||||
| King Charles I signs the Treaty of London ending Bishops' Wars | 08 | 10 | 1641 | Bishops' Wars | |||||
| King Charles' weakness in Bishops' Wars emboldens Catholics who wanted reform of the Kingdom of Ireland | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| The Irish Rebellion begins with an attempted coup d'état by a small group of Irish Catholic landowners | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| They planned to seize Dublin Castle and other strongpoints around the country and then to issue demands | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| Their demands included: | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| – The free practice of the Catholic religion | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| – Equal rights for Catholics to hold public office | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| – An end to land confiscations | 08 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| The following events mark the beginning of the Irish Rebellion: | 10 | 22 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| – On October 22, 1641, Irish rebels surprise and capture six English forts in Ulster | 10 | 22 | 1641 | Six Forts in Ulster | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| – Felim O'Neill captures Charlemont Fort from the English | 10 | 22 | 1641 | Charlemont 1st | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| – Irish rebels attempt to seize Dublin Castle fails | 10 | 22 | 1641 | Dublin 1st | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| – O'Byrne, O'Toole and Kavanagh clans occupy Wicklow Castle | 10 | 1641 | Wicklow Castle (Siege Starts) | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| – The insurrection spreads to the general populace and attacks on Protestants grow from beatings to murders | 10 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| – Irish rebels advance toward Belfast | 10 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| – Irish rebels capture Armagh and Lurgan | 10 | 1641 | Armagh | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| – Irish rebels are driven back from Belfast by the Protestants | 10 | 1641 | Belfast 1st | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| – Protestants take refuge in Londonderry | 10 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| – Irish rebels massacre Protestant settlers at Portadown | 11 | 1641 | Portadown | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| Felim O'Neill sieges Drogheda | 11 | 1641 | 03 | 10 | 1642 | Drogheda 1st (Siege Starts) | Irish Rebellion | ||
| Ormond is appointed Lieutenant-General in Ireland by King Charles | 11 | 11 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| Felim O'Neill fails to capture Lisburn | 11 | 28 | 1641 | Lisburn | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Irish rebels ambush a Royalist relief contingent at Julianstown | 11 | 29 | 1641 | Julianstown | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, takes Wicklow Castle from Irish rebels | 11 | 29 | 1641 | Wicklow Castle (Siege Ends) | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, defeats the rebels at Kilcoole | 12 | 01 | 1641 | Kilcoole | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Irish rebels massacre the Scottish settler garrison at Augher | 12 | 1641 | Augher | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| Felim O'Neill fails to capture Castle Derg | 12 | 1641 | Castle Derg | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| The first English reinforcements arrive in Dublin; these are sent by Parliament | 12 | 30 | 1641 | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| Irish rebels unsuccessfully attack a Royalist escort at Barnesmore Gap | 01 | 01 | 1642 | Barnesmore Gap | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, and the English defeat rebels at Swords near Dublin | 01 | 11 | 1642 | Dublin 2nd (Swords) | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| The Irish rebels siege Coleraine | 01 | 1642 | 06 | 1642 | Coleraine (Siege Starts) | Irish Rebellion | |||
| Ormond and the English recaptures Naas from the rebels | 02 | 03 | 1642 | Naas | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Irish rebels slaughter an English defense corps south of Coleraine at Garvagh | 02 | 10 | 1642 | Garvagh | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Irish rebels unsuccessfully attack Antrim | 02 | 13 | 1642 | Antrim | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Three thousand (3,000) English soldiers arrive in Dublin | 03 | 1642 | Irish Rebellion | ||||||
| Irish rebels rout an English defense corps at Bundoorragh | 03 | 1642 | Bundoorragh | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| The rebel siege of Drogheda ends unsuccessfully | 03 | 10 | 1642 | Drogheda 1st (Siege Ends) | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| The citizens of Galway seize an English ship and declare for the rebellion | 03 | 19 | 1642 | Galway 1st | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| Nineteen hundred (1,900) English soldiers arrive in Dublin | 03 | 21 | 1642 | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| Robert Monro arrives in Ulster with an advance party of 2,500 men from Scotland | 04 | 15 | 1642 | Irish Rebellion | |||||
| Irish rebels unsuccessfully attempt to stop Royalist forces on a resupply mission at Kilrush | 04 | 15 | 1642 | Kilrush | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| The Confederate Oath of Association is drafted | 05 | 10 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Irish Confederates siege St John's Castle in Limerick | 05 | 18 | 1642 | 06 | 23 | 1642 | Limerick 1st (Siege Starts) | Irish Confederate Wars | |
| The Laggan Army routs Felim O'Neill at Glenmaquin | 06 | 16 | 1642 | Glenmaquin | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Laggan Army takes the Strabane garrison from the Confederates | 06 | 19 | 1642 | Strabane | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| St John's Castle in Limerick falls to the Confederates after siege | 06 | 23 | 1642 | Limerick 1st (Siege Ends) | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Laggan Army defeats Manus O'Cahan at Dungiven | 06 | 1642 | Dungiven | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Laggan Army relieves the siege of Coleraine by the Confederates | 06 | 1642 | Coleraine (Siege Ends) | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) more Scotch veterans arrive in Ulster | 07 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||||
| Owen Roe O'Neill returns to Ireland | 07 | 08 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Royalists siege Hull in an attempt to secure a large arsenal | 07 | 10 | 1642 | 07 | 27 | 1642 | Hull 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Lord Montgomery unsuccessfully attacks Charlemont | 07 | 1642 | Charlemont 2nd | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Royalists end the siege of Hull and retreated to York | 07 | 27 | 1642 | Hull 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Royalists ambush a force of Parliamentarian recruits | 08 | 04 | 1642 | Marshall's Elm | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, the Scottish commander arrives in Ulster | 08 | 04 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Lord Forbes attacks Galway attempting to relieve the Fort-Hill garrison | 08 | 07 | 1642 | 09 | 04 | 1642 | Galway 2nd (Siege Starts) | Irish Confederate Wars | |
| The Parliamentarians siege Portsmouth | 08 | 10 | 1642 | 09 | 07 | 1642 | Portsmouth (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Royalist block land access to the Parliamentarian port of Plymouth | 08 | 1642 | 01 | 1646 | Plymouth (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |||
| The First English Civil War starts - Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham | 08 | 22 | 1642 | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| Civil War in England cuts off troops, supplies, and finances for the rebellion in Ireland | 08 | 22 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Laggan Army is responsible for securing the barony of Raphoe | 08 | 22 | 1642 | Raphoe | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Owen Roe O'Neill is made general of the Confederate Army for Ulster | 08 | 29 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Lord Inchiquin defeats the Confederates and secures Munster for the King | 09 | 03 | 1642 | Liscarroll | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Irish Confederates siege Fort-Hill garrison in Galway | 09 | 04 | 1642 | 06 | 20 | 1643 | Galway 2nd (Siege Continues) | Irish Confederate Wars | |
| The Parliamentarians capture Portsmouth after a siege and secure a large gunpowder reserve | 09 | 07 | 1642 | Portsmouth (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists and the Parliamentarians skirmish | 09 | 07 | 1642 | Babylon Hill | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| General Leslie attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont | 09 | 1642 | Charlemont 3rd | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| General Leslie attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont | 09 | 1642 | Charlemont 4th | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Prince Rupert routes the Parliamentarian cavalry and rescues Byron's convoy of silver | 09 | 23 | 1642 | Powick Bridge | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Prince Rupert loses a skirmish to the Parliamentarians | 10 | 17 | 1642 | Kings Norton | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| King Charles attempts to gain London and is blocked by Essex and the Parliamentarians | 10 | 23 | 1642 | Edgehill | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The first Confederate General Assembly is held at Kilkenny | 10 | 24 | 1642 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Prince Rupert loses a skirmish to the Parliamentarians | 11 | 01 | 1642 | Aylesbury | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Prince Rupert defeats the Parliamentarians as King Charles advances on London | 11 | 12 | 1642 | Brentford | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| King Charles leads his army nearly to London then backs off when Essex and the Parliamentarians block his way | 11 | 13 | 1642 | Turnham Green | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians quickly capture the Farnham castle as King Charles takes his army to Oxford | 12 | 01 | 1642 | Farnham Castle | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians fail to stop the Earl of Newcastle from advancing to York | 12 | 01 | 1642 | Piercebridge | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Earl of Newcastle continues his advance south capturing the Parliamentarian garrison of Tadcaster | 12 | 07 | 1642 | Tadcaster | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Royalists attempting to advance east out of Sussex are stopped by a disciplined Parliamentarian force | 12 | 1642 | Muster Green | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| The Parliamentarians siege a small Royalist garrison in southern England | 12 | 22 | 1642 | 12 | 27 | 1642 | Chichester (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Cornwall Royalists make a weak and unsuccessful effort to siege Exeter | 12 | 1642 | 01 | 1643 | Exeter 1st | 1st English Civil War | |||
| The Parliamentarians capture a small Royalist garrison in southern England | 12 | 27 | 1642 | Chichester (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Royalists forces advancing east from Cornwall defeat inexperienced Parliamentarians in a short battle | 01 | 19 | 1643 | Braddock Down | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians attack and capture Leeds partially restoring the balance of power in northern England | 01 | 23 | 1643 | Leeds | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Confederates are defeated by Charles Coote as the Parliamentarians withdraw from Connacht to Dublin | 02 | 05 | 1643 | Rathconnel | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Brereton and the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists in north-west Cheshire | 03 | 13 | 1643 | Middlewich 1st | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists decimate Thomas Preston and the Confederate Leinster Army at Ballinvegga | 03 | 18 | 1643 | New Ross 1st | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Royalists defend their supply lines clashing inconclusively with the Parliamentarians in Hopton Heath | 03 | 19 | 1643 | Hopton Heath | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists decimate a Parliamentarian infantry detachment returning from a diversionary tactic | 03 | 30 | 1643 | Seacroft Moor | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Prince Rupert and the Royalists torch Camp Hill / Birmingham after being fired upon by Parliamentarians | 04 | 03 | 1643 | Camp Hill | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Prince Rupert and the Royalists siege a small garrison in Lichfield | 04 | 08 | 1643 | 04 | 21 | 1643 | Lichfield (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Prince Maurice blunts the advances of Sir William Waller near the River Severn and Wales | 04 | 13 | 1643 | Ripple Field | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege a Royalist garrison | 04 | 14 | 1643 | 04 | 25 | 1643 | Reading (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Prince Rupert and the Royalists capture a small garrison in Lichfield | 04 | 21 | 1643 | Lichfield (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians successfully capture a Royalist garrison | 04 | 25 | 1643 | Reading (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians turn the tables on a Royalist attack in Devon | 04 | 25 | 1643 | Sourton Down | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege the Castle of a prominent Royalist | 05 | 02 | 1643 | 05 | 08 | 1643 | Wardour 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Robert Monro attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont | 05 | 1643 | Charlemont 5th | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Robert Monro attacks Owen O'Neill at Charlemont | 05 | 1643 | Charlemont 6th | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Parliamentarians successfully capture the Castle of a prominent Royalist | 05 | 08 | 1643 | Wardour 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Hopton and the Royalists decimate the Parliamentarians in Cornwall | 05 | 16 | 1643 | Stratton | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Thomas Fairfax and the Parliamentarians attack the Royalist garrison and take prisoners for a Seacroft Moor exchange | 05 | 21 | 1643 | Wakefield | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Waller and the Parliamentarians siege Worcester | 05 | 29 | 1643 | 05 | 31 | 1643 | Worcester 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Waller and the Parliamentarians end the siege Worcester and quickly retreat | 05 | 31 | 1643 | Worcester 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Irish Confederate cavalry defeats a retreating Royalist infantry force at Cloughleagh | 06 | 04 | 1643 | Cloghleagh | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Robert Stewart and the Laggan Army routs Owen Roe O'Neill at Clones, County Monaghan | 06 | 13 | 1643 | Clones | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| John Hampden and the Parliamentarians are defeated when they pursue a Prince Rupert raiding party | 06 | 18 | 1643 | Chalgrove Field | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Irish Confederates capture Fort-Hill garrison in Galway | 06 | 20 | 1643 | Galway 2nd (Siege Ends) | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Earl of Newcastle and the Royalists defeat the Fairfax Parliamentarians in West Yorkshire | 06 | 30 | 1643 | Adwalton Moor | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Queen Henrietta Maria's escort captures a bridge from the Parliamentarians in advance of her supply convoy | 07 | 04 | 1643 | Burton Bridge | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Hopton and the Royalists defeat the Parliamentarians as they advance east out of Devonshire | 07 | 05 | 1643 | Lansdowne | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Lord Wilmot's cavalry routes Waller and his army of 5,000 Parliamentarians | 07 | 13 | 1643 | Roundway Down | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The victory of the Royalists at Roundway Down effectively isolates the Parliamentarian garrison of Exeter in Devon | 07 | 13 | 1643 | 09 | 04 | 1643 | Exeter 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Charles Cavendish and the Royalists siege Gainsborough in Lincolnshire | 07 | 15 | 1643 | 07 | 28 | 1643 | Gainsborough (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Prince Rupert and the Royalists storm and capture the port city of Bristol | 07 | 26 | 1643 | Bristol 1st | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Cromwell defeats Cavendish at the siege of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire | 07 | 28 | 1643 | Gainsborough (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Owen Roe O'Neill defeats Charles Moore at Portlester | 08 | 07 | 1643 | Portlester | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| King Charles sieges Gloucester in the South-west | 08 | 10 | 1643 | 09 | 05 | 1643 | Gloucester (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Earl of Newcastle sieges Hull | 09 | 02 | 1643 | 10 | 12 | 1643 | Hull 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Exeter surrenders to Prince Maurice and the Royalists | 09 | 04 | 1643 | Exeter 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| King Charles ends the siege Gloucester in the South-west | 09 | 05 | 1643 | Gloucester (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists and the Confederates agree to a ceasefire - The Cessation of Arms | 09 | 15 | 1643 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Prince Rupert attacks the Earl of Essex as he returns to London from relieving Gloucester | 09 | 18 | 1643 | Aldbourne Chase | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| King Charles unsuccessfully attempts to stop the Earl of Essex's army from reaching London | 09 | 20 | 1643 | Newbury 1st | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Solemn League and Covenant is signed by Parliament | 09 | 25 | 1643 | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| The Laggan Army "refuses" the Covenant and the Cessation of Arms | 09 | 1643 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||||
| The Earl of Manchester defeats a relieving force near Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire | 10 | 11 | 1643 | Winceby | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Earl of Newcastle ends the siege of Hull | 10 | 12 | 1643 | Hull 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| A Parliamentarian garrison stops Prince Rupert in a skirmish at a bridge in Olney | 11 | 04 | 1643 | Olney | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Waller and the Parliamentarians siege Basing House | 11 | 06 | 1643 | 11 | 15 | 1643 | Basing House 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Royalists fail to capture Heptonstall in Yorkshire | 11 | 1643 | Heptonstall | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| The Royalists siege Wardour Castle | 11 | 1643 | 03 | 1644 | Wardour 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |||
| Waller and the Parliamentarians end the siege of Basing House when the troops revolt | 11 | 15 | 1643 | Basing House 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| A Royalist detachment fails to capture a bridge over the River Adur in West Sussex | 12 | 13 | 1643 | Bramber Bridge | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians execute a surprise attack on the Royalist winter garrison in Hampshire | 12 | 13 | 1643 | Alton | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Ordinance to enact the Cessation of Arms is approved | 12 | 15 | 1643 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Arundel Castle | 12 | 19 | 1643 | 01 | 06 | 1644 | Arundel (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Royalists defeat Brereton and the Parliamentarians in a battle for Cheshire | 12 | 26 | 1643 | Middlewich 2nd | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists surrender Arundel Castle after an eighteen day siege | 01 | 06 | 1644 | Arundel (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Sir Thomas Fairfax in command of a Parliamentarian relief force defeats Lord Byron and the Royalists | 01 | 25 | 1644 | Nantwich | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalist garrison of Newark is sieged by the Parliamentarians | 02 | 1644 | 03 | 21 | 1644 | Newark 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | ||
| Scot Covenanters conduct a prolonged siege of Newcastle | 02 | 03 | 1644 | 10 | 27 | 1644 | Newcastle 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms |
| The Parliamentarians siege Lathom House in Lancashire | 02 | 27 | 1644 | 05 | 27 | 1644 | Lathom House 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Royalists capture Wardour Castle | 03 | 1644 | Wardour 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| Parliament appoints Major-General Robert Monro commander-in-chief of its forces in Ireland | 03 | 09 | 1644 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Prince Rupert and the Royalists relieve the siege of their Newark garrison | 03 | 21 | 1644 | Newark 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Scot Covenanters and the Royalists face-off inconclusively near Newcastle | 03 | 24 | 1644 | Boldon Hill | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| A Parliamentarian relief force is defeated and turned back at Stourbridge | 03 | 26 | 1644 | Stourbridge Heath | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists fail to stop the westward expansion of the Parliamentarians into Hampshire | 03 | 29 | 1644 | Cheriton | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Fairfaxes and the Parliamentarians capture the strategic garrison of Selby in Yorkshire | 04 | 11 | 1644 | Selby | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists siege the port city of Lyme Regis | 04 | 20 | 1644 | 06 | 16 | 1644 | Lyme Regis (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Parliamentarians conduct a prolonged siege of York | 04 | 22 | 1644 | 07 | 16 | 1644 | York (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms |
| The Parliamentarians siege the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire | 05 | 03 | 1644 | 05 | 06 | 1644 | Lincoln (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Parliamentarians capture the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire | 05 | 06 | 1644 | Lincoln (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Robert Munro and the Parliamentarians seize Belfast | 05 | 14 | 1644 | Belfast 2nd | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Parliamentarians end the siege of Lathom House in Lancashire | 05 | 27 | 1644 | Lathom House 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Oxford in an attempt to capture King Charles | 05 | 27 | 1644 | 06 | 04 | 1644 | Oxford 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Prince Rupert attacks the city of Bolton and allegedly slaughters defenders and inhabitants | 05 | 28 | 1644 | Bolton | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Basing House for a second time | 06 | 04 | 1644 | 11 | 15 | 1644 | Basing House 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Parliamentarians end the siege of Oxford | 06 | 04 | 1644 | Oxford 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Earl of Denbigh and the Parliamentarians siege Dudley Castle in the West Midlands | 06 | 05 | 1644 | 06 | 12 | 1644 | Tipton Green (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Royalists clash with a Parliamentarian force ending the siege of Dudley Castle in the West Midlands | 06 | 12 | 1644 | Tipton Green (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists end the siege of the port city of Lyme Regis | 06 | 16 | 1644 | Lyme Regis (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians capture the Oswestry garrison in Shropshire | 06 | 22 | 1644 | Oswestry | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Sir William Waller and the Parliamentarian army fail to capture King Charles | 06 | 29 | 1644 | Cropredy Bridge | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists decisively killing 4,000 and taking 1,500 prisoners | 07 | 02 | 1644 | Marston Moor | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| The Royalists surrender York after the defeat at Marston Moor | 07 | 16 | 1644 | York (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Inchiquin abandons the Royalist cause and declares for Parliament | 07 | 17 | 1644 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Standoff between Monro's Parliamentarians and the Confederates of Owen O'Neill and the Earl of Castlehaven | 07 | 1644 | County Meath | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Parliamentarians track and defeat the Royalists on a recruitment trip in Lancashire | 08 | 20 | 1644 | Ormskirk | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| King Charles corners and defeats the Earl of Essex and the Parliamentarians in Cornwall | 08 | 21 | 1644 | Lostwithiel | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Scottish Royalists attempting to start a revolution defeat a Scot government force | 09 | 01 | 1644 | Tippermuir | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Lord Byron and the Royalists siege Montgomery Castle in Wales | 09 | 08 | 1644 | 09 | 18 | 1644 | Montgomery (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force and sack Aberdeen; the city is abandoned to the Covenanters | 09 | 13 | 1644 | Aberdeen 2nd | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| The Parliamentarians defeat Lord Byron and break the siege of Montgomery Castle in Wales | 09 | 18 | 1644 | Montgomery (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians begin a prolonged siege of Chester in Cheshire | 09 | 20 | 1644 | 02 | 03 | 1646 | Chester (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Royalists siege Taunton in Somerset | 09 | 23 | 1644 | 12 | 14 | 1644 | Taunton 1st (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Parliamentarians siege Carlisle in Cumbria | 10 | 1644 | 06 | 25 | 1645 | Carlisle (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |
| The Parliamentarians successfully block King Charles from advancing on London | 10 | 27 | 1644 | Newbury 2nd | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists at Newcastle accept terms after a prolonged siege by the Scot Covenanters | 10 | 27 | 1644 | Newcastle 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| The Parliamentarians end the siege of Basing House for a second time | 11 | 15 | 1644 | Basing House 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Cessation of Arms is renewed | 12 | 01 | 1644 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Colonel Rawstorne and the Royalists surrender Lathom House in Lancashire | 12 | 02 | 1644 | Lathom House 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists end the siege of Taunton in Somerset | 12 | 14 | 1644 | Taunton 1st (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Inchiquin enters into a short truce with the Confederates | 12 | 1644 | 04 | 10 | 1645 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||
| The Parliamentarians siege Newark | 01 | 1645 | 02 | 1645 | Newark 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |||
| Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force at Inverlochy | 02 | 02 | 1645 | Inverlochy | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| The Parliamentarians end the siege of Newark | 02 | 1645 | Newark 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| The Parliamentarians begin a prolonged siege of a Royalist manor | 02 | 1645 | 03 | 28 | 1646 | High Ercall Hall (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | ||
| The Royalists capture the port of Weymouth in Dorset | 02 | 09 | 1645 | Weymouth 1st | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Scarborough Castle in Yorkshire | 02 | 18 | 1645 | 07 | 25 | 1645 | Scarborough Castle (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Parliamentarians recapture Weymouth in Dorset | 02 | 27 | 1645 | Weymouth 2nd | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists siege Taunton in Somerset for the second time | 03 | 11 | 1645 | 05 | 10 | 1645 | Taunton 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Thomas Preston and the Irish Confederates capture Duncannon from English Parliamentarians | 03 | 18 | 1645 | Duncannon | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The truce between Inchiquin and the Confederates ends | 04 | 10 | 1645 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force in the highlands | 05 | 09 | 1645 | Auldearn | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| The Royalists end the second siege of Taunton in Somerset | 05 | 10 | 1645 | Taunton 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Royalists siege Taunton in Somerset for the third time | 05 | 12 | 1645 | 07 | 09 | 1645 | Taunton 3rd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Parliamentarians siege Oxford in an attempt to capture King Charles | 05 | 22 | 1645 | 06 | 05 | 1645 | Oxford 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| King Charles captures Leicester but incurs heavy losses | 05 | 30 | 1645 | Leicester | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians end the siege of Oxford | 06 | 05 | 1645 | Oxford 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Sir Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians decimate King Charles and the Royalists | 06 | 14 | 1645 | Naseby | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians capture Carlisle in Cumbria after a siege | 06 | 25 | 1645 | Carlisle (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Scottish Royalists defeat pursuing Scot government forces | 07 | 02 | 1645 | Alford | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| The Parliamentarians siege Lathom House in Lancashire | 07 | 1645 | 12 | 02 | 1645 | Lathom House 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | ||
| The Parliamentarians and Laggan Army led by Charles Coote capture Sligo | 07 | 08 | 1645 | Sligo 1st | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Royalists end the third siege of Taunton in Somerset | 07 | 09 | 1645 | Taunton 3rd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Sir Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, and the Parliamentarians defeat the Royalist army in the West | 07 | 10 | 1645 | Langport | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians capture Scarborough Castle in Yorkshire | 07 | 25 | 1645 | Scarborough Castle (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Scottish Royalists defeat a Scot government force led by William Baillie | 08 | 15 | 1645 | Kilsyth | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Prince Rupert surrenders the important city and port of Bristol to the Parliamentarians | 08 | 23 | 1645 | 09 | 10 | 1645 | Bristol 2nd | 1st English Civil War | |
| Sir David Leslie and the Covenanters defeat the Scottish Royalists | 09 | 13 | 1645 | Philiphaugh | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| King Charles' cavalry gets surrounded and defeated while attempting to end the siege of Chester in Cheshire | 09 | 24 | 1645 | Rowton Heath | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| Papal Nuncio Rinuccini arrives at Kenmare | 10 | 11 | 1645 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Cromwell attacks, loots and burns down Basing House slaughtering the defenders | 10 | 12 | 1645 | 10 | 14 | 1645 | Basing House 3rd | 1st English Civil War | |
| The Irish Connaught Army fails to capture Sligo from the Parliamentarians; the Archbishop of Tuam is killed | 10 | 17 | 1645 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Parliamentarians quash a Royalist effort to relieve Chester | 11 | 01 | 1645 | Denbigh Green | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Newark | 11 | 1645 | 05 | 1646 | Newark 3rd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |||
| Plymouth is no longer blockaded as the war ends | 01 | 1646 | Plymouth (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| The Parliamentarians and Cromwell conduct a preemptive attack on the Royalists in Devon | 01 | 09 | 1646 | Bovey Heath | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians capture Chester in Cheshire after a 16 month siege | 02 | 03 | 1646 | Chester (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians confront and defeat Royalists in Devon | 02 | 16 | 1646 | Torrington | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians intercept and defeat Royalist recruits on their way to Oxford | 03 | 21 | 1646 | Stow-on-the-Wold | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Confederate Supreme Council signs a peace treaty (First Ormond Peace Treaty) with Ormond and the Royalists | 03 | 28 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Parliamentarians capture a fortified manor after a long siege | 03 | 28 | 1646 | High Ercall Hall (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Oxford | 05 | 01 | 1646 | 06 | 25 | 1646 | Oxford 3rd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| King Charles orders the town to surrender when the war ends | 05 | 1646 | Newark 3rd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army - The First English Civil War ends | 05 | 05 | 1646 | 1st English Civil War | |||||
| The Marquis of Huntly captures Aberdeen from the Covenanters for King Charles | 05 | 14 | 1646 | Aberdeen 3rd | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Alasdair Mac Colla leads Clan Campbell in a victory over Clan MacDonald | 05 | 1646 | Lagganmore | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | ||||
| The Parliamentarians siege Worcester | 05 | 21 | 1646 | 07 | 23 | 1646 | Worcester 2nd (Siege Starts) | 1st English Civil War | |
| Owen O'Neill defeats Robert Munro's Parliamentarian forces | 06 | 05 | 1646 | Benburb | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Parliamentarians take possession of Oxford | 06 | 25 | 1646 | Oxford 3rd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| General Preston and the Confederates defeat the Parliamentarians and captures Roscommon Castle | 07 | 10 | 1646 | Roscommon Castle | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| General Preston and the Confederates defeats the Parliamentarians and captures Bunratty Castle | 07 | 12 | 1646 | Bunratty Castle | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Parliamentarians take possession of Worcester | 07 | 23 | 1646 | Worcester 2nd (Siege Ends) | 1st English Civil War | ||||
| The Ormond Peace is proclaimed in Dublin | 07 | 30 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Archbishop Rinuccini denounces the Ormond Peace | 08 | 12 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Rinuccini pronounces a sentence of excommunication on all those who support the Ormond Peace | 09 | 02 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Rinuccini and the Confederate military ousts the Confederate Supreme Council | 09 | 15 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Rinuccini and the Catholic clergy appoint a new Supreme Council at Kilkenny | 09 | 26 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Owen O'Neill and Thomas Preston siege Royalist Dublin under the command of Ormond | 09 | 27 | 1646 | 11 | 15 | 1646 | Dublin 3rd (Siege Starts) | Irish Confederate Wars | |
| The Confederate siege of Dublin under the command of Ormond and the Royalists ends | 11 | 15 | 1646 | Dublin 3rd (Siege Ends) | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Parliament enacts an ordinance to void the Cessation of Arms | 12 | 14 | 1646 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Sir David Leslie and the Covenanters hunt down and defeat Alasdair Mac Colla | 05 | 24 | 1647 | Rhunahaorine Moss | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Sir David Leslie and the Covenanters attack then slaughter 300 MacDougall Highlanders | 06 | 1647 | Dunaverty | 1st English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | ||||
| Ormond hands Dublin over to Michael Jones and the Parliament Army | 07 | 28 | 1647 | Dublin 4th | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Parliamentarians decimate Thomas Preston's Confederate Leinster army in the field | 08 | 08 | 1647 | Dungan's Hill | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Inchiquin captures and then sacks the Confederates at the Rock of Cashel | 09 | 15 | 1647 | Cashel | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Laggan Army refuses to muster to support Coote in an offensive against the Confederates in Connacht | 11 | 1647 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||||
| Inchiquin decimates the Confederate forces commanded by Viscount Taaffe at Knocknanuss | 11 | 13 | 1647 | Knocknanuss | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Charles I signs the Engagement Agreement with the Scots | 12 | 26 | 1647 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Inchiquin declares for King Charles and joins the Royalist efforts | 04 | 03 | 1648 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Parliamentarians put down a revolt of former soldiers | 05 | 08 | 1648 | St. Fagans | 2nd English Civil War | ||||
| The Confederate Council signs the Treaty of Dungarvan with Inchiquin | 05 | 20 | 1648 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Oliver Cromwell sieges rebellious Parliamentarian soldiers at Pembroke Castle in Wales | 05 | 31 | 1648 | 07 | 11 | 1648 | Pembroke (Siege Starts) | 2nd English Civil War | |
| Sir Thomas Fairfax puts down a Royalist partisan revolt in Kent | 06 | 01 | 1648 | Maidstone | 2nd English Civil War | ||||
| Colonel George Twisleton and the Parliamentarians put down a Royalist revolt in North Wales | 06 | 05 | 1648 | Y Dalar Hir | 2nd English Civil War | ||||
| Owen O'Neill declares war on the Confederate Council and leads an army against Kilkenny | 06 | 11 | 1648 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Royalists partisans take refuge in Colchester; Parliamentarians siege the town | 06 | 12 | 1648 | 08 | 28 | 1648 | Colchester (Siege Starts) | 2nd English Civil War | |
| The Engagers and the Kirk Party fight an inconclusive battle in Scotland | 06 | 12 | 1648 | Mauchline Muir | Scotland - Civil Issues | ||||
| Owen O'Neill pillages Leinster and harasses the Confederates and Protestants | 06 | 1648 | 09 | 1648 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Oliver Cromwell successfully captures rebellious Parliamentarian soldiers at Pembroke Castle in Wales | 07 | 11 | 1648 | Pembroke (Siege Ends) | 2nd English Civil War | ||||
| The Parliamentarians defeat the Scottish "Engagers" at Preston in England | 08 | 17 | 1648 | 08 | 19 | 1648 | Preston | 2nd English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms |
| The Parliamentarians move to eliminate any with Royalists leanings in Ireland | 08 | 1648 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||||
| Royalists partisans surrender Colchester to the Parliamentarians after the defeat of the Royalists at Preston | 08 | 28 | 1648 | Colchester (Siege Ends) | 2nd English Civil War | ||||
| The pillage of Leinster by Owen O'Neill ends | 09 | 1648 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||||
| Supporters of the Kirk Party march on Edinburgh and capture the city | 09 | 1648 | Whiggamore Raid | Scotland - Civil Issues | |||||
| The Engagers defeat the Kirk Party at a battle in Scotland | 09 | 12 | 1648 | Stirling | Scotland - Civil Issues | ||||
| Monck commands a Parliamentarian Army and takes Belfast from the Royalists | 09 | 1648 | Belfast 3rd | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Monck commands a Parliamentarian Army and takes Carrickfergus from the Royalists | 09 | 1648 | Carrickfergus 1st | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Coote and the Parliamentarians take Londonderry from the Laggan Army | 12 | 1648 | Londonderry 1st | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| Ormond and the Royalists ally with Inchiquin and the Confederate Council against the Parliamentarians | 01 | 17 | 1649 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| King Charles I is executed | 01 | 30 | 1649 | 2nd English Civil War | |||||
| Royalist clans in northern Scotland occupy Inverness for a short while | 02 | 22 | 1649 | Inverness 1st | Scotland - Civil Issues | ||||
| Rinuccini leaves Ireland | 02 | 23 | 1649 | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Laggan Army sieges the Parliamentarians in Londonderry | 03 | 28 | 1649 | 08 | 07 | 1649 | Londonderry 2nd (Siege Starts) | Irish Confederate Wars | |
| Owen O'Neill and the Parliamentarians agree to an armistice to fight the Royalists | 05 | 1649 | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||||
| England becomes a Commonwealth | 05 | 19 | 1649 | 2nd English Civil War | |||||
| Confederate and Irish Royalists siege Dublin held by Michael Jones and the Parliamentarians | 06 | 19 | 1649 | 08 | 02 | 1649 | Dublin 5th (Siege Starts) | Irish Confederate Wars | |
| The Scots join the Laggan Army and use their artillery to block resupply of Londonderry by mean of the River Foyle | 07 | 1649 | Londonderry 2nd (Siege Continues) | Irish Confederate Wars | |||||
| The Marquis of Clanricarde and the Royalists capture Sligo in Connacht | 07 | 09 | 1649 | Sligo 2nd | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Parliamentarians surrender Drogheda to Inchiquin and the Royalists | 07 | 11 | 1649 | Drogheda 2nd | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| The Parliamentarians surrender Dundalk to Inchiquin and the Royalists | 07 | 24 | 1649 | Dundalk | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Confederate and Irish Royalists end the siege of Dublin when the Parliamentarians decimate Ormond at Rathmines | 08 | 02 | 1649 | Dublin 5th (Siege Ends) | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Michael Jones and the Parliamentarians decimates Ormond and the Confederates near Dublin | 08 | 02 | 1649 | Dublin 6th (Rathmines) | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Owen O'Neill relieves Londonderry from siege by the Laggan Army and the Scots | 08 | 07 | 1649 | Londonderry 2nd (Siege Ends) | Irish Confederate Wars | ||||
| Cromwell's army arrives in Dublin | 08 | 15 | 1649 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Cromwell sieges Drogheda | 09 | 03 | 1649 | 09 | 11 | 1649 | Drogheda 3rd (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Cromwell captures Drogheda and gives little quarter to the inhabitants | 09 | 11 | 1649 | Drogheda 3rd (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| The Commonwealth Army led by Venables takes Belfast from Lord Montgomery and the Royalists | 10 | 01 | 1649 | Belfast 4th | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Cromwell storms the port of Wexford | 10 | 02 | 1649 | 10 | 11 | 1649 | Wexford (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Cromwell captures the port of Wexford | 10 | 11 | 1649 | Wexford (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Cromwell captures New Ross | 10 | 19 | 1649 | New Ross 2nd | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Owen O'Neill agrees to join forces with Ormond against Cromwell | 10 | 20 | 1649 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Inchiquin fails to stop Nelson and the Parliamentarians from advancing south | 11 | 01 | 1649 | Arklow | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| The Parliamentarians capture southern ports; Munster rejects Inchiquin and accepts the Parliamentarians | 11 | 1649 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||||
| Cromwell sieges the port city of Waterford | 11 | 24 | 1649 | 12 | 02 | 1649 | Waterford 1st (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Cromwell gives up the siege of the port city of Waterford when winter begins | 12 | 02 | 1649 | Waterford 1st (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Parliamentarians advance north and rout the Royalists | 12 | 06 | 1649 | Lisnagarvey | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Parliamentarians take Carrickfergus from the Royalists | 12 | 13 | 1649 | Carrickfergus 2nd | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| The Laggan Army is useless as a fighting force due to divisions within the ranks | 1649 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||||
| The Laggan Army disbands in late 1649 | 1649 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||||
| Lord Broghill and Henry Cromwell defeat Lord Inchiquin near Cork | 03 | 1650 | Mallow | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Cromwell sieges Kilkenny | 03 | 22 | 1650 | 03 | 28 | 1650 | Kilkenny (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Cromwell captures Kilkenny | 03 | 28 | 1650 | Kilkenny (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Cromwell and the Protestant Royalists enter into a treaty - the Ulster Scots and Laggan Army also accept the treaty | 04 | 26 | 1650 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Covenanters clans in far northern Scotland defeat Scottish Royalists | 04 | 27 | 1650 | Carbisdale | Scotland - Civil Issues | ||||
| Cromwell's army begins the siege / attack of Clonmel | 04 | 27 | 1650 | 05 | 18 | 1650 | Clonmel (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Cromwell's army surrounds Tecroghan Castle and begins a siege of the Confederate stronghold | 05 | 1650 | 06 | 25 | 1650 | Tecroghan (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||
| The Parliamentarians decimate a Confederate relief force headed for Clonmel | 05 | 10 | 1650 | Macroom | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Cromwell's army takes a beating but takes control of Clonmel after the Royalists escape | 05 | 18 | 1650 | Clonmel (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Cromwell returns to England; Ireton takes command in Ireland | 05 | 27 | 1650 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Castlehaven and the Confederates fail to end the siege of Tecroghan Castle | 06 | 19 | 1650 | Tecroghan (Siege Continues) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| The Confederate Army of Ulster is crushed by Coote and ceases to be a fighting force | 06 | 21 | 1650 | Scarrifholis | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Sir Robert Talbot surrenders Tecroghan Castle to Cromwell's army | 06 | 25 | 1650 | Tecroghan (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Ireton begins a siege and blockade of Waterford | 07 | 1650 | 08 | 06 | 1650 | Waterford 2nd (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||
| Preston surrenders Waterford to Ireton | 08 | 06 | 1650 | Waterford 2nd (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Felim O'Neill surrenders Charlemont to Coote and Venables | 08 | 14 | 1650 | Charlemont 7th | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Cromwell and the English defeat David Leslie and the Scots | 09 | 03 | 1650 | Dunbar | 3rd English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Clanricarde and the Confederate Army of Connacht are decimated by Axtell | 10 | 25 | 1650 | Meelick Island | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Ormond and Inchiquin leave Ireland | 12 | 11 | 1650 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Ireton's troops cross the Shannon | 06 | 02 | 1651 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| The siege of Limerick is reinstated by Ireton and the Parliamentarians | 06 | 19 | 1651 | 10 | 27 | 1651 | Limerick 2nd (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Athlone is surrendered to Coote and the Parliamentarians | 06 | 18 | 1651 | Athlone | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| John Lambert and the English outflank and defeat the Scots | 07 | 20 | 1651 | Inverkeithing | 3rd English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Lord Broghill routs an Irish Confederate relief force led by Muskerry | 07 | 26 | 1651 | Knocknaclashy | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Galway is loosely sieged by Coote after the fall of Athlone | 08 | 1651 | 05 | 12 | 1652 | Galway 3rd (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||
| The Parliamentarians fail to hold back Charles II and his Scottish supporters at the River Mersey | 08 | 13 | 1651 | Warrington Bridge | 3rd English Civil War | ||||
| The English decimate the Earl of Derby and reinforcements for the campaign of Charles II | 08 | 25 | 1651 | Wigan Lane | 3rd English Civil War | ||||
| The English capture the bridge at Upton helping to facilitate the battle to capture Worcester | 08 | 28 | 1651 | Upton | 3rd English Civil War | ||||
| George Monck attacks and captures Dundee inflicting great damage on the defenders | 08 | 29 | 1651 | 09 | 01 | 1651 | Dundee | 3rd English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms |
| Cromwell defeats Charles II decisively ending the English Civil Wars | 09 | 03 | 1651 | Worcester 3rd | 3rd English Civil War | Scotland in the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |||
| Limerick surrenders to Ireton and the Parliamentarians | 10 | 27 | 1651 | Limerick 2nd (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Ireton dies of the plague | 11 | 26 | 1651 | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |||||
| Galway surrenders after being blockaded / besieged for several months | 05 | 12 | 1652 | Galway 3rd (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| Clanricarde takes refuge in Ballyshannon | 05 | 16 | 1652 | 06 | 28 | 1652 | Ballyshannon (Siege Starts) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | |
| Clanricarde surrenders Ballyshannon | 06 | 28 | 1652 | Ballyshannon (Siege Ends) | Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland | ||||
| The Scot Highlanders stop an English force from attacking Glencairn's army | 02 | 10 | 1654 | Tullich | Glencairn's Rising in Scotland | ||||
| The Scot Highlanders flee at the onset of the battle - the Highland uprising ends | 07 | 19 | 1654 | Dalnaspidal | Glencairn's Rising in Scotland | ||||
Oliver Cromwell was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, first as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and then as a politician. A leading advocate of the execution of Charles I in January 1649, which led to the establishment of the Republican Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, he ruled as Lord Protector from December 1653 until his death in September 1658. Cromwell nevertheless remains a deeply controversial figure in both Britain and Ireland, due to his use of the military to first acquire, then retain political power, and the brutality of his 1649 Irish campaign.
The Levellers were a political movement active during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. The hallmark of Leveller thought was its populism, as shown by its emphasis on equal natural rights, and their practice of reaching the public through pamphlets, petitions and vocal appeals to the crowd.
Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC, was a statesman and soldier, known as Earl of Ormond from 1634 to 1642 and Marquess of Ormond from 1642 to 1661. Following the failure of the senior line of the Butler family, he was the second representative of the Kilcash branch to inherit the earldom.
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an English historian, who specialized in 17th-century English history as a prominent foundational historian of the Puritan revolution and the English Civil War.
Owen Roe O'Neill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O'Neill dynasty of Ulster. O'Neill left Ireland at a young age and spent most of his life as a mercenary in the Spanish Army serving against the Dutch in Flanders during the Eighty Years' War. After the Irish Rebellion of 1641, O'Neill returned and took command of the Irish Confederate Ulster Army. He is known for his victory at the Battle of Benburb in 1646.
The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years' War, took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland, England and Scotland – all ruled by Charles I. The conflict had political, religious and ethnic aspects and was fought over governance, land ownership, religious freedom and religious discrimination. The main issues were whether Irish Catholics or British Protestants held most political power and owned most of the land, and whether Ireland would be a self-governing kingdom under Charles I or subordinate to the parliament in England. It was the most destructive conflict in Irish history and caused 200,000–600,000 deaths from fighting as well as war-related famine and disease.
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were a series of related conflicts fought between 1639 and 1652 in England, Scotland and Ireland – separate entities which had the same king, Charles I. They included the English Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars and the Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652). They resulted in the English parliamentarian army defeating all other belligerents, the execution of Charles I, the abolition of the monarchy, and the founding of the Commonwealth of England; a unitary republic which controlled the British Isles until the Stuart Restoration in 1660.
Thomas Horton was an English soldier in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and Regicide. A member of the minor gentry, his family was connected to Sir Arthur Haselrig, one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War. Horton served throughout the war, and in 1645 was given command of a regiment in the New Model Army.
The Battle of Scarrifholis, also spelt Scariffhollis took place on 21 June 1650, near Letterkenny in County Donegal during the Irish Confederate Wars. A force loyal to the Commonwealth of England commanded by Charles Coote defeated the Catholic Ulster Army, commanded by Heber MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher.
The Battle of Rathmines was fought on 2 August 1649, near the modern Dublin suburb of Rathmines, during the Irish Confederate Wars, an associated conflict of 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It has been described as the 'decisive battle of the Engagement in Ireland.'
Lieutenant-General Michael Jones, c. 1606 to 10 December 1649, was an Irish-born soldier of Welsh descent who fought for Parliament and the Commonwealth in the War of the Three Kingdoms, primarily in Ireland. Third son of Lewis Jones, Bishop of Killaloe, his brothers Henry and Ambrose were also bishops in the Protestant Church of Ireland.
The Committee of Both Kingdoms,, was a committee set up during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms by the Parliamentarian faction in association with representatives from the Scottish Covenanters, after they made an alliance in late 1643.
Sir Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty (1594–1665), was an Irish magnate, soldier, and politician. He succeeded as 2nd Viscount Muskerry in 1641. He rebelled against the government, demanding religious freedom as a Catholic and defending the rights of the Gaelic nobility in the Irish Catholic Confederation. Later, he supported the King against his Parliamentarian enemies during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, a part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, also known as the British Civil War.
The Sack of Wexford took place from 2 to 11 October 1649, during the campaign known as the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. It was part of the wider 1641 to 1653 Irish Confederate Wars, and an associated conflict of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount DillonPC (Ire) (1615–1673) held his title for 42 years that saw Strafford's administration, the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the Irish Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. He was a royalist and supported Strafford and Ormond. He sided with the Confederates for a while but was a moderate who opposed Rinuccini, the papal nuncio. Lord Dillon fled the field of the Battle of Dungan's Hill (1647) and did not rescue Ormond at the Battle of Rathmines (1649). However, he defended Athlone successfully against Ireton in 1650.
Sir James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon was an Irish magnate and politician. He was born a Catholic but converted at a young age to the Church of Ireland. He supported Strafford during his term as governor of Ireland. In the Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest he was a royalist. He died in 1649, but was nevertheless included as the fifth on the list of people that were excluded from pardon in Cromwell's 1652 Act of Settlement.
The Battle of Tecroghan also called of Ticroghan, was a minor battle of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland that was fought on 19 June 1650 outside Tecroghan Fort in County Meath, Ireland. The fort was besieged by the Parliamentarians. A force of the Irish Royalist Alliance commanded by the Earl of Castlehaven attempted to relieve the siege. Although a part of the allied force broke through to the fort with some supplies, the siege continued and the garrison surrendered six days later.
The Parliament 1640–1649, also called Parliament 1639–1648 using an unadjusted Old Style (O.S.) calendar, was the second of the two Irish parliaments of King Charles I of England. It voted taxes in 1640 and was then overshadowed by the Irish Rebellion of 1641. It was legally dissolved by the King's death in 1649.
Lieutenant-General Patrick Purcell of Croagh was an Irish soldier. In his youth he fought in Germany during the Thirty Years' War. Back in Ireland he joined the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in 1642 when it reached Munster. He commanded units of the Confederate Munster Army, or precursors and successors of it, from 1642 to 1651 under their successive commanders-in-chief, Viscount Mountgarret, General Garret Barry, Viscount Muskerry, the Earl of Castlehaven, the Marquess of Ormond, and finally Hugh Dubh O'Neill. In 1651 at the surrender of Limerick to the Parliamentarians, he was excepted from pardon and executed by Henry Ireton.
Sir Charles Vavasour, 1st Baronet, of Killingthorpe was an English soldier who fought the insurgents in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 where he excelled at the Battle of Liscarroll in 1642 but was defeated in the Battle of Cloughleagh of the ensuing Irish Confederate Wars. After the cease-fire of September 1643 he was sent to England to fight the Parliamentarians in the First English Civil War but his regiment mutinied and he resigned his commission, dying soon after in Oxford.