Establishment of the Commonwealth in England
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Murder, Homicide, Execution, Assassination
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History, 17th Century European History
- Geographical Location: England
- Date: December, 1648-February, 1649
Article abstract: The establishment of the Commonwealth in England ushers in the first modern republic to be founded on the trial and execution of a king, anticipating the French Revolution by 140 years.
Summary of Event
The crest of the mid-century revolution in England, or (as historians generally now refer to it) the Great Rebellion, has been located at various dates: in 1645, after Parliament’s army decisively defeated the Royalists; in the second Civil War of 1648, when the Royalists backed by the Scots attempted to rescue the imprisoned king and...
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