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The Escape of Charles II After the Battle of Worcester. New York, Scribner. Broadley, A. M. (1912). The Royal Miracle: A Collection of Rare Tracts, Broadsides, Letters, Prints, & Ballads Concerning the Wanderings of Charles II After the Battle of Worcester. —This also chronicles the delightfully daffy 1911 re-enactment of the events.
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
The departure of Charles II from Scheveningen (1660) On 4 April 1660, Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, in which he made several promises in relation to the reclamation of the crown of England. While he did this, Monck organised the Convention Parliament, which met for the first time on 25 April.
The Exclusion Bill Parliament was a Parliament of England during the reign of Charles II of England, named after the long saga of the Exclusion Bill. Summoned on 24 July 1679, but prorogued by the king so that it did not assemble until 21 October 1680, it was dissolved three months later on 18 January 1680/81.
Charles II: King of England and Ireland King of Scotland England Scotland Ireland: 1651–1660 France The Low Countries: Zhu Youlang (Yongli Emperor) Emperor of the Southern Ming: Southern Ming: 1661–1662† Burma: Govinda Manikya: Maharaja of Tripura: Twipra Kingdom: 1661–1667 Chittagong Hill Tracts Kingdom of Mrauk U: James II and VII ...
It was part of a wider Restoration in the British Isles that included the return of the Stuart dynasty to the thrones of England and Ireland in the person of Charles II. As military commander of the Commonwealth's largest armed force, George Monck , governor-general in Scotland, was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II, who was ...
King Charles III strongly condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine as he referenced Charles de Gaulle’s Free French resistance movement in the Second World War when France suffered under Nazi ...
The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1679 until 1681 in the reign of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. Three Exclusion Bills sought to exclude the King's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland because he was a Roman Catholic. None became law. Two new parties formed.