Key events

1605 - Created Duke of York
1625 - March, 27th - James VI died.
1625 - Parliament gave Charles I tonnage & poundage for one year only
1628 - June 13th married to Henrietta Maria, Canterbury
1628 - Duke of Buckingham murdered
1631 - November 4th - Henrietta Mary born
1633 - First visit to Scotland
1634 - Ship money demanded by Charles I without Parliament's consent
1635 - Queens House in Greenwich completed by Inigo Jones (1573 - c1652).
1635 - Connecticut first settled
1636 - Hackney carriages in London
1637 - Introduced the Book of Common Prayer
1638 - National Covenant signed a public petition
1638 - Code and Prayer Book suspended
1638 - First Bishops' War
1639 - Pacification of Berwick
1640 - Battle of Newcastle - Second Bishops' War
1641 - Treaty of Ripon, last visit to Scotland
1642 - English Civil War breaks out
1646 - Surrendered to the Scots
1648 - Battle of Preston
1649 - January, 30th Charles I was beheaded by the English Parliament.

Charles was survived by his sons, Charles II and James VII.