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Parliament drew up 27 articles in November 1644 and presented them to Charles I of England at Oxford. [1] Much input into these Propositions of Uxbridge was from Archibald Johnston. [2] The conditions were very assertive, with Presbyterianism to be established south of the border, and Parliament to take control of all military matters. [3]
The Heads of Proposals was a set of propositions intended to be a basis for a constitutional settlement after King Charles I was defeated in the First English Civil War. [1] The authorship of the Proposals has been the subject of scholarly debate, although it has been suggested that it was drafted in the summer of 1647 by Commissary-General ...
Ends the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia. Treaty of Tetuan First treaty between Morocco and Great Britain signed on 23 January 1721 by Charles Stewart and the Pasha of Tetuan , and later ratified by King George I and Sultan Ismail : 300 English captives were freed and English merchants were allowed special capitulations in Moroccan ...
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
Christ Church hall, depicted in 1845, where the Parliament met. The Oxford Parliament, also known as the Mongrel Parliament, was the Parliament assembled by Charles I of England for the first time on 22 January 1644 and adjourned for the last time on 10 March 1645, with the purpose of being an instrument of the Royalist war campaign.
The Treaty of Oxford of 1643 was an unsuccessful attempt by the Long Parliament and King Charles I to negotiate a peace treaty.. On 28 January 1643, Charles, at the request of both houses, granted a safe-conduct for the earls of Northumberland, Pembroke, Salisbury and Holland, and five commoners (Sir John Holland, Sir William Litton, William Pierrepoint, Bulstrode Whitlock, Edmund Walker ...
Britain's King Charles III meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during his first visit to the U.K since the Russian invasion of Ukraine at Buckingham Palace, London, Wednesday February 8 ...
1689–97: War of the Grand Alliance with France; also called "Nine Years War" or "War of the League of Augsburg" or " King William's War" [29] 1697–98: During the Grand Embassy of Peter I the Russian tsar visited England for three months; improved relations and learned the best new technology especially regarding ships and navigation.