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gives his assent to the Triennial Act 1640, reluctantly committing himself to parliamentary sessions of at least fifty days, every three years.
* March 7 – King Charles I of England decrees that all Roman Catholic priests must leave England by April 7 or face being arrested and treated as traitors.
* March 22 – The trial for high treason begins for Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford,

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