Timeline: The Stuarts and the Civil War - 1603AD to 1644AD
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"Plagues, witch trials and fires are familiar aspects of Elizabethan and Stuart life but the greatest disruption was caused by the Civil War in the mid-1600s. In 1640, Charles I summoned Parliament to raise funds for a war against the Scots but Parliament , not called for 11 years, naturally refused. Charles was defeated by the Scots at Newburn on Tyneside in 1640 and the Scots seized the North-East. This increased the tension between King and Parliament which resulted in the English Civil War...." -
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