Reformation & Union · event 5 of 8

1638

The National Covenant. Thousands sign at Greyfriars in resistance to Charles I’s prayer book. The Bishops’ Wars follow, and from them the civil wars across three kingdoms.

The Reformation & Union era

  1. 1560
  2. 1561
  3. 1566
  4. 1603
  5. 1638
  6. 1645
  7. 1707
  8. 1736

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