Timeline March 1629

Events in March 1629 3

• 1629 Massachusetts Bay Company chartered Royal charter grants land and self-government in New England Charles I granted a royal charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company, authorizing a Puritan-led colony in New England with an unusually high degree of self-government. The charter enabled the Great Migration of Puritan settlers to Massachusetts over the following decade.
• 1629 Edict of Restitution issued Ferdinand II orders return of Catholic Church lands Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II decreed that all properties secularized by Protestants since the 1555 Peace of Augsburg be returned to the Catholic Church. The edict hardened Protestant opposition and deepened the Thirty Years' War rather than settling it.
• 1629 Charles I dissolves Parliament Beginning of the Personal Rule in England After the Commons passed the Three Resolutions condemning Arminianism and illegal taxation, Charles I had the Speaker held down in his chair to delay adjournment and then dissolved Parliament. He would not summon another Parliament for eleven years, ruling instead through royal prerogative.