James I Key Dates

Question 1

1603

Answer 1

James accedes the throne peacefully
Millenary Petition

Question 2

1604-10

Answer 2

James’s First Parliament

Question 3

1604

Answer 3

Hampton Court Conference - KJV commissioned (1611), no major concessions, ‘no bishops, no King’

Question 4

1604 (Foreign Policy)

Answer 4

Treaty of London, ends Anglo-Spanish War

Question 5

1605

Answer 5

Gunpowder Plot

Question 6

1606

Answer 6

Bates Case, asserts Crown financial prerogative (imports duties)

Question 7

1611-21

Answer 7

James rules without Parliament, except for Addled Parliament (1614)

Question 8

1610

Answer 8

Great Contract, Robert Cecil, failure, £200,000/year to James if James gives up wardship and purveyance

Question 9

1618

Answer 9

Thirty Years’ War begins

Question 10

1620

Answer 10

Frederick of the Palatinate loses Battle of White Mountain

Question 11

1621

Answer 11

Parliament recalled (James was short of money) - it impeached court officials, attacks monopolies, pursues anti-Spanish policy

Question 12

1621 (What caused James to dissolve Parliament?)

Answer 12

The Protestation, asserted Parliament’s right to debate matters of foreign policy, James rips it out in front of the Spanish ambassador

Question 13

1623

Answer 13

Madrid Trip

Question 14

1624-25

Answer 14

’Happy Parliament’ - Buckingham and Charles adopt anti-Spanish policy, James reluctantly agrees, monopoly act passed (1624)

Question 15

1625

Answer 15

James dies