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LFerigutti - From the Stuart to the Hanoverian Dynasty
by LFerigutti - (2009-05-04)
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From the Stuart to the Hanoverian Dynasty

 

  • 1603: James I becomes king; being a Catholic he trusted in the divine right of the king and excluded the Parliament in taking decisions
  • 1623: at James’ death Charles I becomes king; he pursues a policy of taxation and of exclusion of the Parliament
  • 1642: a Civil War breaks out between the royalists (Lords, gentry and Catholics) and the parliamentary army (mercantile and professional classes, Puritans)
  • 1645: Oliver Cromwell defeats the royalists
  • 1649: Charles I is executed
  • Cromwell institutes the Commonwealth
  • 1658: Cromwell dies
  • 1660: there is the Restoration of the monarchy; Charles II is called back from France and becomes king of England
  • 1685: James II becomes king; he tries to impose Catholic religion
  • 1688: James II is deposed with the Glorious Revolution; the throne passes to William of Orange and his wife Mary, James’ daughter
  • 1685: the Bill of Right imposed the conditions the sovereigns had to follow
  • 1714: queen Anne, the last Stuart sovereign, dies. The crown passes to George I of Hanover, establishing the Hanoverian dynasty.