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1642
 
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Charles I leads his army into action at Edgehill - the first, but inconclusive, battle in the English Civil War        
1642
 
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Charles I withdraws to Oxford, where he establishes his court for the rest of the war      
1644
 
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In the first decisive battle of the English Civil War the king's nephew, Rupert of the Rhine, is heavily defeated at Marston Moor       
1645
 
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The royalist forces, again under the command of Rupert of the Rhine, suffer another major defeat at Naseby       
1646
 
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With a parliamentary army surrounding royalist Oxford, Charles I escapes in disguise and heads north       
1647
 
   
The Scottish army holding Charles I makes peace with parliament, and hands the king to parliamentary commissioners      
1660
 
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Monck persuades Charles II to sign, at Breda in Holland, a declaration of policies to heal the wounds of the Civil War