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The term "English Revolution" is also used by non-Marxists in the Victorian period to refer to 1642 such as the critic and writer Matthew Arnold in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: "This is what distinguishes it [the French Revolution] from the English Revolution of Charles the First's time". [23]
The English period (1664-1763). The Revolutionary period, part I (1763-1776) I.N. Phelps Stokes; The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol 5. 1926; v. 5. The Revolutionary period, part II (1776-1783). Period of adjustment and reconstruction New York as the state and federal capital (1783-1811).
Articles relating to the so-called English Revolution in the 17th-century Kingdom of England. Marxist historiography used the term to cover the period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period (1642–1660), while seeing the Glorious Revolution of 1688 as part of the same revolutionary movement.
Historians debate how influential Christianity was in the era of the American Revolution. [128] Many of the founding fathers were active in a local church; some of them had Deist sentiments, such as Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. Catholics were few outside of Maryland; however, they joined the Patriot cause during the Revolution.
The Commonwealth period is better remembered for the military success of Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, and the New Model Army. Besides resounding victories in the English Civil War, the reformed Navy under the command of Robert Blake defeated the Dutch in the First Anglo-Dutch War which marked the first step towards England's naval supremacy.
The Age of Revolution is a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. [2] The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies to representative governments with a written constitution, and the creation of nation states.
This is a timeline of English history, ... starting a year-long period of disorder and war in Britain. [9] ... Also called the Revolution of 1688, ...
Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the start of the Glorious Revolution in 1688. The Glorious Revolution ended the Restoration. The Glorious Revolution which overthrew King James II of England was propelled by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of ...