1599 | - born Huntingdon, 25th April |
1616 | - enters Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
1628 | - MP for Huntingdon |
1640 | - MP for Cambridge |
1642 | - raises troops for Parliament |
1643 | - Colonel in the Eastern Association |
1644 | - Lieutenant-General of the Eastern Association Army - Battle of Marston Moor, 2nd July - Battle of Newbury, 27th October |
1645 | - Lieutenant-General of the New Model Army - Battle of Naseby, 14th June |
1647 | - supports Parliamentary army in clashes with Parliament |
1648 | - crushes royalist rising in South Wales - Battle of Preston, 18th August |
1649 | - supports trial and execution of the King, January - commands army sent to crush Ireland, August |
1650 | - commands army sent to crush Scotland, July |
1650 | - Battle of Dunbar, 3rd September |
1651 | - Battle of Worcester, 3rd September |
1653 | - dissolves Parliament, 20th April - becomes Lord Protector, 16th December |
1654 | - meets first Protectorate Parliament, September |
1655 | - system of the Major-Generals established, October |
1656 | - meets second Protectorate Parliament, September |
1657 | - rejects Parliament's offer of the crown and remains Lord Protector, March - June |
1658 | - dies at Whitehall, 3rd September |
1661 | - exhumed and posthumously 'executed', 30th January |
The final resting place of Cromwell's physical remains is a matter of dispute. However, it is likely that his body lies near Tyburn in London, now the Marble Arch area. The head believed to be Cromwell's became a rather undignified collector's piece until bequeathed to his old Cambridge College in 1960 and buried near Sidney Sussex chapel. |
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