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The restoration and the augustan age

Giorgia Bruschi

Created on December 17, 2023

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the restorationand the Augustan age

1625- 1785

Start

charles I (1625-1649)

Divine Right of King

Petition of Right (1629)

A changing Society

10 years as an absolute king

Parliamentary vs Royalist

The English Civil War

Cromwell's victory

Commonwealth

= Interregnum (11 years)

1658 Cromwell dies

CHARLES II was restored to the throne

THE RESTORATION PERIOD

1679 Exclusion Bill

1685 James II

1689 Glorious Revolution

1701 Act of Settlement

THE hanoverian kings

George I

Domination of the Whigs

George II

Colonialism

A changing Society

The British Empire

Queen Elisabeth Queen Victoria - Empress of India Territorial Peak of the Empire 1922 20th century (after WWII) - end of the Empire

His son is born

= William d'Orange secretly invited to England

= restrictions on the power of the sovereign Submitted to the king who suspended the parliament

All catholics excluded from the throne

After William and Mary, there will be Queen Anne (1702)- 1707 Act of Union = England and Scotland same Parliament After her the House of Hanover

3 main wars

- vs Spain - vs France - 7 years war

Rump parliament (= House of common)

= execution of Charles I 1649

To exclude James II (catholic)

Brother of Charles II, first in line to the throne in favor of William D'orange and his wife Mary

Puritans

More radically protestant section. They were threatening the unity of the Anglican church

A form of republic

Cromwell led the country as LORD PROTECTOR since 1685 and closed the Rump Parliament = A form of puritan despotism

William (III) and Mary are Crowned

Peaceful and non-violent = James II fleed to Scotland

- Landed Gentry - Urban middle-class - Public coffeehouse - Machanical inventions

= to rule as an absolute king without the parliament

Roundheads vs Cavaliers

Roundheads = led by Oliver Cromwell (puritans, conservative and radical )

First "Prime Minister"

Sir Robert Walpole

Whigs and Tories

A series of acts to prevent an autocratic rule - Limited Religious freedom (= Catholic absolute reigns)