[Oliver_W]

Without using one's knowledge of upcoming historic events, it would be a hard thing to prove.

I suppose you could predict the coming death (in 1625) and the ascension of Charles I? Talk about his quarrels with the government, who wanted to curb the Royal Prerogative? Even then the Civil War wouldn't start for a couple of decades.

And even then, the death of a long-ill king and his eldest surviving child is an easy thing to predict really.