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The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. ... On 20 October 1659, George Monck, the governor ...
The Protectorate, officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the English form of government lasting from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659, under which the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with their associated territories were joined together in the Commonwealth of England, governed by a Lord Protector.
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, 27 July 1625 to 28 May 1672, was an English military officer, politician and diplomat from Barnwell, Northamptonshire.During the First English Civil War, he served with the Parliamentarian army, and was a Member of Parliament at various times between 1645 and 1660.
Stuart Restoration (1660) The Commonwealth of England was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales , later along with Ireland and Scotland , [ 1 ] were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I .
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 ...
In 1659 he inherited his father's peerage. [1] The family estates had been seized under the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652; following the Stuart Restoration, Netterville attempted to have the property restored to him. Despite recovering 6,000 acres from the court of claims during the 1660s, this amounted to only one fifth of the seized ...
Suspected of involvement in the 1655 Penruddock uprising to restore Charles II of England, in 1659 he led another attempt known as Booth's Uprising. Intended as part of a larger conspiracy, it was quickly defeated, but Booth escaped punishment and was rewarded with a peerage after the 1660 Stuart Restoration.
The Stuart Restoration begins. 1660 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1660th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 660th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1660s decade. As ...