This
list deals with events affecting the area of Lancashire, which is now Greater
Manchester. A Chronology of the Civil War as a whole is online at CHRONOLOGY
OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR -
1642
20th June – Preston
Moor Meeting where Manchester Men were to choose sides between Parliament and
the King.
20th June – Sir Ralph
Assheton removes Lord Strange’s gunpowder supplies from the Collegiate Church
and takes them to secret places for parliament’s purposes.
4th July – Alleged battle
for Manchester in which many died. More than likely Parliamentary propaganda.
15th July – The Banquet Riots in Manchester. - The
death of Richard Perseval, allegedly the first English casualty of the Wars.
16th July – Lord Strange
leaves Ordsall Hall, Salford, where he took shelter after the riot of the
previous night.
18th July - Richard
Perseval is buried in the Collegiate Church.
16th September - Lord
Strange was impeached by Parliament for the death of Richard Perseval
24th September – Lord
Strange marches from Warrington to take Manchester by force.
25th September – Beginning of the siege of Manchester.
Lord Strange becomes the 7th Earl Of Derby whilst leading the
Royalists in the siege.
1st October – The
weeklong siege of Manchester ends in Royalist defeat.
10th October – Parliament
sends a letter of official thanks to the defenders of Manchester.
3rd November –Parliament
present Manchester with a new cannon.
27th November - Ambush of
Royalists from Leigh on the Moors between Leigh & Bolton, but the Royalists
narrowly escaped.
24th December 1642 –
Rosworm liberates Leigh from Royalist control.
1643
23rd May – Manchester Men
help Fairfax capture Warrington
30th June 1643 –
Manchester Men fight on the losing (Parliamentary) side at Adwalton Moor.
22cd November 1643 – Parliamentary
forces march through Didsbury and damage St. Wilfred’s Church, Northenden. On
route to take Wythenshawe Hall.
21st November – Beginning
of the siege of Wythenshawe Hall.
27th November – Royalists
chased through Atherton and Leigh by Parliamentary forces, some drawn from the
Manchester Garrisons.
1644
27th February = The End
of the Siege of Wythenshawe Hall, a Royalist defeat.
25th May Rupert storms
Stockport but quickly gives up on the town in favor of attacking Bolton.
28th May – Prince Rupert
and Lord Byron storm Bolton and massacre many civilians.
16th
August – The Battle of Wigan Lane. John Middleton’s forces crushed by Cromwell
and the New Model Army prior to the next day’s battle of Preston.
23rd
August – Cromwell passes through Wigan again on his return journey from
Preston.
1651
25th August – Lord Derby
Captured in Wigan when his forces tried to join up with those of Charles 2cd.
15th October – The execution of The Earl Of Derby in Bolton, at the Town Cross, Deansgate. His last hours were spent in the Man And Scythe bar.
1653
20th April - Cromwell
dismisses she Rump Parliament and ordered the ‘bauble’ (Mace) to be removed from the House Of Commons.
Charles Worsely, later Manchester’s first MP, personally physically carried the
Mace away.
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