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| 1155 | Birth |  |
| London Birth of Henry, eldest son of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine
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| 1170 | Coronation | |
| 14th June Westminster Abbey Crowned by the Archbishop of York despite the rights of the Archbishop of Canterbury
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| 1170 | Succession | |
| 14th June Never ruled & not counted in the monarchs of England, known as Henry the Young King
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| 1173 | Rebellion | |
| Rebels against his father because he wishes to have a full succession
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| 1183 | Death | |
| Death of Henry, the "Young King"
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| 1192 | Birth | |
| Birth of Henry Beauchamp
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| 1229 | Death | |
| Death of Henry Beauchamp
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| 1383 | Invasion of Flanders | |
| Flanders Leads an expedition into Flanders
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| 1398 | Bishop | |
| Lincoln Appointed Bishop of Lincoln
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| 1401 | Birth | |
| 26th Nov Birth of Henry Beaufort
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| 1403 | Lord Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor of England, 1st term
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| 1404 | Bishop | |
| Winchester Appointed Bishop of Winchester
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| 1413 | Lord Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor of England, 2nd term
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| 1417 | Council Constance | |
| Constance Attends the Council of Constance & elects the Pope Martin V
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| 1424 | Lord Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor of England, 3rd term
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| 1427 | Cardinal | |
| London Appointed Cardinal
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| 1427 | Papal Legate | |
| Appointed Papal Legate in Germany to organize a crusade against the Hussites
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| 1431 | Coronation | |
| Westminster Abbey Crowns Henry VI as King of France
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| 1440 | Capture | |
| Harfleur Recaptures Harfleur
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| 1442 | Siege of Calais | |
| Calais Relieves the siege of Calais
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| 1442 | Siege of Harfleur | |
| Calais Comes to the relief of Calais
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| 1448 | Lieutenant | |
| London Appointed Lieutenant of France
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| 1448 | Peerage | |
| Created Duke of Somerset, 2nd
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| Created Earl of Somerset, 5th
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| 1449 | Capture | |
| London Withdraws to Caen as the French recapture Anjou, Maine & Normandy
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| 1453 | Arrest | |
| Tower of London Henry V becomes insane & without his protector Somerset is locked up
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| 1454 | Arrest | |
| Tower of London Released from the Tower after Henry VI regains his sanity
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| 1454 | Birth | |
| 4th Sep Birth of Henry Stafford, son of Humphrey, Earl Stafford
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| 1455 | Arrest | |
| Tower of London Released from the Tower of London by Henry VI
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| 1455 | Battle of St Albans, 1st | |
| 22nd May St Albans Fights for the Lancastrians who are defeated in the 1st Battle of St Albans
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| 1459 | Captain | |
| Nov Calais Appointed Captain of Calais
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| 1459 | Siege of Calais | |
| Nov Calais Arrives to take Calais away from the Earl of Warwick who holds it for the Yorkists
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| Nov Calais Some of Somerset's forces are forced by bad weather to surrender to Warwick
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| 1460 | Siege of Calais | |
| Jan Calais Rivers assembles a force to relieve Somerset who has asked for reinforcements
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| 1461 | Exile | |
| London Exiled for supporting Henry VI after the accession of Edward IV
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| 1461 | Mobilization | |
| Jan York Queen Margaret & Somerset march southwards from York
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| 1464 | Death | |
| 15th May Hexham Death of Henry Beaufort
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| 1465 | Peerage | |
| Created Duke of Buckingham
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| 1471 | Battle of Tewkesbury | |
| 4th May Tewkesbury Captured in battle by the Yorkists
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| 1471 | Commander | |
| Appointed highest ranking noble in Lancastrian army
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| 1471 | Death | |
| 6th May London Death of Edmund Beaufort, beheaded by the Yorkists
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| 1471 | Execution | |
| 6th May London Beheaded by the Yorkists
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| 1483 | Arrest | |
| Turned in for a bounty put on his head by Richard III
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| 1483 | Coronation | |
| 6th July Westminster Abbey Makes arrangements for the coronation of Richard III
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| 1483 | Death | |
| 2nd Nov Salisbury Death of Henry Stratford, executed by Henry VIII, the Buckinghmam title is forfeit
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| 1483 | Execution | |
| Following Buckingham's execution, his widow, Catherine, marries Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford
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| 2nd Nov Salisbury The Duke of Buckingham is executed by Richard III for instegating a Lancastrian plot
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| 1483 | Invasion of England | |
| Buckingham raises an army in Wales & starts marching east to support Henry VII
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| Henry's ships run into a storm & return to Brittany, Buckingham's army is troubled by the same storm & deserts
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| 1483 | Rebellion | |
| Raises a force against Richard III but is defeated & executed
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| 1483 | Succession | |
| Denies the legitamacy of Edward IV's heirs
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| 1513 | Battle of Flodden | |
| 9th Sep Flodden Chaplain at the battle of Flodden
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| 1519 | Birth | |
| Blackmore Birth of Henry Fitzroy, son of Elizabeth Blount & Henry VIII
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| 1524 | Treasurer | |
| London Appointed Treasurer of the Chamber
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| 1526 | Master Revels | |
| Appointed Master of the Revels
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| 1527 | Diplomacy | |
| 4th May Greenwich In charge of the banquet to entertain the French embassy
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| 1527 | Festival Greenwich | |
| Greenwich Finances the festivities in Greenwich
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| 1536 | Arrest | |
| 1st May Tower of London Henry Norriss is arrested for having an affair with Anne Boleyn
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| 1536 | Death | |
| 17th May London Death of Henry Norris, executed
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| 1536 | Execution | |
| 17th May London Henry Norriss is executed
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| 1540 | Death | |
| Death of Henry Bourchier, executed
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| 1540 | Execution | |
| Death of Henry Bourchier, executed
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| 1540 | Peerage | |
| Essex Created Earl of Essex, 2nd
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| 1547 | Bishop | |
| Lincoln Appointed Bishop of Lincoln
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| 1552 | Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer | |
| Appointed Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer
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| 1554 | Arrest | |
| 20th May Woodstock Given custody of Princess Elizabeth at Woodstock in Oxfordshire
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| 20th May Woodstock Refuses to allow Elizabeth to make an appeal to the Council
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| 1555 | Arrest | |
| May Discharged from the responsibility of having Elizabeth in his custody
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| 1555 | Plot | |
| Henry Dudley plots an invasion of England to place Elizabeth on the throne
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| 1564 | Birth | |
| Tynemouth Birth of Henry Percy, son of the 8th Earl of Northumberland
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| 1576 | Birth | |
| Hertfordshire Birth of Henry Somerset
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| 1585 | Peerage | |
| Created Earl of Northumberland, 9th
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| 1588 | Battle of Gravelines | |
| 6th Aug Gravelines 16 Spanish ships are captured
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| 6th Aug Gravelines On the day after Gravelines, the wind had backed, southerly, enabling Medina Sidonia to move the Armada northward (away from the French coast), the English pursue the Spanish fleet, to prevent it returning to escort Parma
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| 6th Aug Gravelines Ordered by Lord Howard to patrol Dunkirk & Nieuport
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| 6th Aug Gravelines Prevents Parma making a dash for the English coast
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| 6th Aug Gravelines The Spanish fleet manages to escape to the North Sea due to a sudden squall
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| 1605 | Arrest | |
| Tower of London Arrested for involvement with the Gunpowder Plot, 1605-1621
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| 1605 | Plot | |
| Arrested for involvement with the Gunpowder Plot, 1605-1621
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| 1618 | Birth | |
| 28th July Birth of Henry Bennet
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| 1627 | Peerage | |
| 2nd Mar Worcester Created 1st Marquess of Worcester
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| 1629 | Birth | |
| Birth of Henry Beaufort
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| Birth of Henry Somerset
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| 1632 | Death | |
| 5th Nov Pepworth Death of Henry Percy
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| 1639 | Publication | |
| The future Duke of Gloucester
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| 1642 | Committee Safety | |
| London Appointed Member of the Committee of Lords & Commons fo the Safety of the Kingdom
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| 1642 | Peerage | |
| 2nd Mar Worcester Created 1st Marquess of Worcester
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| 1643 | Battle of Hopton Heath | |
| 18th Mar Stafford Joins forces with the Earl of Northampton prior to the battle of Hopton Heath
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| 19th Mar Hopton Heath Helps defeat the Roundheads under John Gell & William Brereton
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| 1644 | Alliance | |
| Helps form an alliance between Parliament & Scotland
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| 1644 | Battle of Andover | |
| Andover Fights for the Royalists
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| 1644 | Both Kingdoms | |
| London Appointed Member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms
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| 1645 | Battle of Naseby | |
| 14th June Naseby Commands a brigade of the Royalist Army
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| 14th June Naseby Fights at the battle of Naseby for Parliament against Charles I
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| 1645 | Mobilization | |
| 13th June Naseby Leads a cavalry at the Battle of Naseby against the Royalists
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| 1646 | Peace | |
| London Receives Charles I's peace offer to the Independents & communicates it to Cromwell
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| 1646 | Siege of Raglan Castle | |
| 19th Aug Raglan Castle Forced to surrender Raglan Castle to the Parliamentarians
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| 1648 | Long Parliament | |
| 6th Dec London Divisions emerge culminating in Pride's Purge when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically bars about half of the members of Parliament from taking their seats
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| 1648 | Pride's Purge | |
| 6th Dec London Divisions emerge culminating in Pride's Purge when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically bars about half of the members of Parliament from taking their seats
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| 1648 | Treaty of Newport | |
| 6th Dec Newport Asks Pride to exclude from Parliament those who had voted for the Newport treaty
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| 1649 | Execution | |
| 26th Jan London One of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant
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| 1650 | Exile | |
| Bennett joins the exiled Royal family
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| 1651 | Death | |
| Death of Henry Ireton, dies of the plague
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| 1654 | Secretary | |
| Appointed Secretary to James I
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| 1657 | Knighthood | |
| Bennett recieves a knighthood
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| 1657 | Marriage | |
| Marries Mary Capell, daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Lord Capell
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| 17th Aug Marries Mary Capell, daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Lord Capell
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| 1659 | Parliament | |
| Republicans led by Arthur Haselrig & Henry Neville are not reconciled to the Protectorate & wish to restore rule by the House of Commons
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| 1660 | Election | |
| Monmouthshire Elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire
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| 1660 | Siege of Bristol | |
| Bristol Defends Bristol from the Duke of Monmouth
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| 1661 | Keeper Privy Purse | |
| Appointed Keeper of the Royal Privy Purse
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| 1662 | Secretary | |
| Oct Appointed Secretary of State
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| 1663 | Peerage | |
| Worcester Created 3rd Marquess of Worcester
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| Created Baron Arlington
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| 1667 | Peerage | |
| Created 9th Lord Herbert
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| 3rd April Worcester Created 7th Earl of Worcester
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| 1667 | Postmaster General | |
| Appointed Postmaster-General
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| 1668 | Triple Alliance | |
| Negotiates the Triple Alliance against France
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| 1670 | Treaty of Dover | |
| Dover The treaty of Dover is confided to just Arlington & Clifford
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| 1672 | Peerage | |
| 22nd April Arlington Created Earl Arlington, 1st
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| 16th June Bennett is awarded the Garter
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| 1672 | Privy Council | |
| 17th April Appointed Privy Counsellor
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| 1673 | Declaration of Indulgence | |
| Advises Charles to submit the legality of the declaration of indulgence to the Lords
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| The Lords reject the Declaration of Indulgence
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| 1674 | Impeachment | |
| 15th Jan Charged by the Commons with "popery"
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| 15th Jan Impeached for embezzlement, cleared but resigns & becomes Lord Chamberlain
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| 1674 | Resignation | |
| 15th Jan Impeached for embezzlement, cleared but resigns & becomes Lord Chamberlain
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| 1679 | Publication | |
| Appointed Organist at Westminster Abbey
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| 1682 | Peerage | |
| 2nd Dec Created 1st Duke of Beaufort
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| 2nd Dec Beaufort Created 1st Duke of Beaufort
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| 1683 | Marriage | |
| 28th July St James Marries Anne & Prince George of Denmark, at St James's Palace, St Anne's Day
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| 1685 | Death | |
| Death of Henry Bennet
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| 1688 | Speaker | |
| Appointed Speaker of the House of Commons
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| 1694 | Composition | |
