1642 | Outbreak of English Civil War between parliamentary and royalist forces. |
1644 | 14 October, Penn born in London. |
1648 | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years’ War in Europe. |
1649 | Execution of King Charles I in England. Proclamation of English Commonwealth. |
1653 | Oliver Cromwell inaugurates Protectorate. |
1658 | Cromwell dies. |
1660 | Restoration of Stuart monarchy in England (accession of Charles II). Penn enters Christ Church College, Oxford. |
1662 | Penn expelled from Oxford for religious nonconformity. |
1663 | Penn studies at the Protestant Academy in Saumur, France. |
1665 | Penn enters Lincoln’s Inn, London, to study law. |
1667 | Penn converts to Quakerism in Ireland; is arrested for the first time. |
1670 | September: Penn-Mead trial, commemorated in Penn’s People’s Ancient and Just Liberties Asserted. Death of Penn’s father, Admiral Sir William Penn. |
1672 | Penn marries Gulielma Springett. Charles II
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