4-8-2016: Scottish and English timeline for family descendants. Found on Rebecca Jude Josselyn's ancestry.com page.... KING JAMES I 1566: 19 June 1566, Born to Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley 1583: Succeded to throne on enforced abdication of his mother, Mary Queen of Scots 1589: Married Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), 8 children with only 3 surviving infancy, Henry, Charles, Elizabeth. 1600: 1 January 1600, GREGORIAN CALENDAR is adopted in Scotland, year begins Jan.1 not March 25th 1603: James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England, Scotland and Ireland after the death of Elizabeth I uniting the thrones of Scotland and England. 1603: The Millenary Petition is presented to James I. It expresses Puritan desires for reforms to the Church of England. Plot against James to set his cousin Arabella Stuart on the throne. Sir Walter Raleigh is implicated and imprisoned. 1604: The Somerset House Peace conference results in peace between England and Spain. The Hampton Court Conference fails to settle the doctrinal differences between the Anglican Church and its Puritan critics. James proclaims that smoking is harmful to the lungs and imposes a tax on tobacco. 1605: Guy Fawkes and other Catholic dissidents attempt to blow up King and Parliament in THE GUNPOWDER PLOT. They are betrayed and arrested. 1606: The GUNPOWDER plotters are executed. 120 colonists sail for America. 1607: The Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel end their rebellion against English rule of Ireland and flee to Europe; Ulster is colonized by Protestant ettlers from Scotland and England. The English Parliament rejects Union with Scotland. Common citizenship of English and Scottish persons is granted to those born after the accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne. Jamestown found in America by the Virginia company. 1609: Scottish and English Protestants are encouraged to settle in Ulster. Shakespeare completes the Sonnets. 1611: The King James Authorized Versoion of the Bible is published. Dissolution of the first Parliament of James I. Arabella Stuart secretly marries William Seymour. When James finds out Seymour is imprisoned but escapes with Arabella. They are captured on the way to France and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Arabella starves herself to death there in 1615. 1612: Henry, Prince of Wales, dies of typhoid. His younger brother, Charles, becomes heir to the throne. Heretics are burned at the stake for the last time in England. 1613: James' daughter Elizabeth marries Frederick V, Elector of Palatine. Their descendants in House of Hanover will eventually inherit the British Throne. The Globe Theatre in London burns during a performance of Henry VIII. 1614: Second Parliament of James I meets. Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes his theory of logarithms simplifying calculations for navigators. 1615: Goerge Villiers becomes James's favorite. 1616: Playwright William Shakespeare dies. Raleigh is released from prison to lead an expedition to Guiana in search of El Dorado. 1617: George Villiers becomes the Earl of Buckingham. 1618: Raleigh fails in his expedition and on his return is executed for alleged treason at Westminster. 1620: The Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America in the Mayflower. They land at Cape Cod and found New Plymouth. 1625: Death of James I, aged 58. (c) http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=james1 KING CHARLES I 1600: 19 November 1600 - born to James VI and Anne of Denmark, in Dunfermline Palace, Scotland. 1625: Crowned King of England, Scotland and Ireland Marries Henrietta Maria of France, happy marriage with 9 children, 5 surviving. 1628: George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, assassinated. 1645-46: Civil war with the Scots and is defeated. He is captured but escapes to the Isle of Wight. 1648: Charles is recaptured by Oliver Cromwell, put on trial for treason and found quilty. 1649: 30 January 1649 executed outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. KING CHARLES II