20 April–14 June – First English Civil War: Royalists under Prince Maurice besiege Lyme Regis in Dorset. They do not take the town, but destroy twenty ships.[4]
25 May – First English Civil War: Royalist forces under Prince Rupert storm and take Stockport and cross the Mersey.[5]
28 May – First English Civil War: Bolton Massacre: Royalist forces under Prince Rupert kill several hundreds of the town's defenders.[5]
11 June – First English Civil War: Prince Rupert and his men take Liverpool Castle.[6] Liverpool is later reclaimed by Sir John Moore.
2 July – First English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor, the largest battle of the war, produces a crushing victory for the Parliamentary side in Yorkshire, ending Charles I's hold on the north of England.[2]
^Firth, Charles Harding (1922). "Rupert, Prince". The Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 17. Oxford University Press. p. 408. Rupert returned to Wales.. Defeating the parliamentarians at Stockport, he forced his way into Lancashire, stormed Bolton on 28 May, and captured Liverpool on 11 June. (Quoting Ormerod, Civil War Tracts of Lancashire, p. 187).
^Williams, Michael Edward; Shurden, Walter B. (2008). Turning Points in Baptist History. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. p. 17.