1599 Born Huntingdon - 25th April

1616 Enters Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

1628 MP for Huntingdon

1640 MP for Cambridge

1642 Raises troops for Parliament

1643 Colonel in the Eastern Association

1644 Lieutenant-General of the
Eastern Association Army

Battle of Marston Moor - 2nd July

Battle of Newbury - 27th October

1645 Lieutenant-General of the New Model Army
Battle of Naseby - 14th June

1647 Supports Parliamentary army in clashes with Parliament

1648 Crushes royalist rising in South Wales
Battle of Preston - 18th August

1649 Supports trial and execution of the King  - January
Commands army sent to crush Ireland - August

1650 Commands army sent to crush Scotland - July

1650 Battle of Dunbar - 3rd September

1651 Battle of Worcester - 3rd September

1653 Dissolves Parliament - 20th April
Becomes Lord Protector - 16th December

1654 Meets first Protectorate Parliament  - September

1655 System of the Major- Generals established - October

1656 Meets second Protectorate Parliament  - September

1657 Rejects Parliament's offer of the crown and remains Lord Protector, March - June

1658 Dies at Whitehall - 3rd September

1661 Exhumed and posthumously 'executed' - 30th January
 

     The final resting place of Cromwell's physical remains is a matter of dispute. However, it is likely that his body lies near Tyburn in London, now the Marble Arch area.

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