| 1599
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- Born
Huntingdon - 25th April
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| 1616
|
- Enters
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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| 1628
|
|
| 1640
|
|
| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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|
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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