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  2. Trial of Charles I - Wikipedia

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    A plate depicting the trial of Charles I in January 1649, from John Nalson's "Record of the Trial of Charles I, 1688" in the British Museum. The Trial of Charles I was a significant event in English history that took place in January 1649, marking the first time a reigning monarch was tried and executed by his own subjects.

  3. Execution of Charles I - Wikipedia

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    Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 [b] outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War , leading to the capture and trial of Charles.

  4. Charles I of England - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of regicides of Charles I - Wikipedia

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    Although Royal authority in political and religious matters were key issues, fought primarily over political power and religious authority. Charles was defeated in the 1642 to 1646 First English Civil War [1] In January 1649 a trial was arranged, composed of 135 commissioners. Some were informed beforehand of their summons, and refused to ...

  6. King Charles the Martyr - Wikipedia

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    King Charles the Martyr, or Charles, King and Martyr, is a title of Charles I, who was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. The title is used by high church Anglicans who regard Charles's execution as a martyrdom .

  7. Cultural depictions of Charles I of England - Wikipedia

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    Jowitt views the character of the gentleman Vitelli in Massinger's 1624 play The Renegado as an allegory of the prince during the failed marriage attempt. [1] There is the manuscript of a play entitled Charles I by Percy Shelley, started in early 1822 and left unfinished after his death.

  8. Wikipedia : WikiProject Video games/Video game characters

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    Articles on the English Wikipedia related to fictional characters originating in video games. This subject excludes characters that appeared originally for other media, such as licensed appearances. Video game species such as Pokémon also fall under the scope of this project, both as individual species and related lists. 9.1% List-Class; 23.1% ...

  9. Character generator - Wikipedia

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    A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can generate graphics as well as text.