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    The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in...
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  • Portuguese Restoration War (1640–1668) Stuart Restoration (1660) in England, Wales and associated realms Restoration (Ireland) Restoration (Scotland)...
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    eventually returned to England, at the end of her own life, during the Stuart Restoration of her nephew, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. With the demise...
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    The High Sheriff of Lancashire is an ancient office, now largely ceremonial, granted to Lancashire, a county in North West England. High Shrievalties are...
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  • the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. Charles II restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs...
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    England, a unitary state which controlled the British Isles until the Stuart Restoration in 1660. Political and religious conflict between Charles I and his...
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    into the Commonwealth, and Britain became a unitary state until the Stuart Restoration in 1660. The term "English Civil War" appears most often in the singular...
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    after a disagreement with the king, but subsequently supported the Stuart Restoration in 1660. Buckingham was imprisoned by Charles on several occasions...
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    whose weakness led to a power vacuum. This culminated in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, when Charles II returned to the throne, after which Cromwell's body...
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    Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded after the Stuart Restoration in 1660. It differed from other armies employed in the 1639 to 1653...
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  • December 1619, Prague Son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart 29 November 1682, Westminster Aged 62 — Imprisonment of king Charles I until...
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    Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (8 July 1640 – 13 September 1660) was the youngest son of Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his wife...
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    development faltered at the onset of the English Civil War. After the Stuart Restoration, the architectural landscape was dominated by the more flamboyant...
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  • the Stuart Restoration. The grants marked the resumption of English colonization of the Americas after a 30-year hiatus. The two major restoration colonies...
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    created the Commonwealth of England and Scotland which ended with the Stuart Restoration. In August 1503, James IV of Scotland married Margaret, eldest daughter...
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    viewed both the institution of the Protectorate in 1653 and the 1660 Stuart Restoration as preventing the coming of the Fifth. The belief this justified military...
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    archetype of Man-as-Creature-of-Nature. The intellectual politics of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) expanded Dryden's playwright usage of savage to denote...
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  • Thumbnail for English Reformation
    during the Stuart period, most famously the English Civil War which resulted in the rule of Puritan Oliver Cromwell. After the Stuart Restoration and the...
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  • global interest, extend the period further to, for example, from the Stuart Restoration in 1660 to the end of the Georgian era. Possibly the earliest proponent...
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  • Thumbnail for William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
    advice, he went into exile in Europe. He returned to England after the Stuart Restoration in 1660, and although created Duke of Newcastle in 1665, he remained...
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    twelve years after being crowned by the Scots. This completed the Stuart Restoration. Some historians have referred to the conflict, which followed the...
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  • Affairs (Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou) requesting French help for a Stuart restoration (including 10,000 French soldiers). It was signed by the Duke of Beaufort...
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  • Isles, 1625–1649) British Interregnum (British Isles, 1649–1660) Stuart Restoration (British Isles, 1660–1714) Carolean era (British Isles, 1660–1685)...
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    Jacobitism was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The name derives from the...
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    Philip Oliver-Gascoigne of Parlington Hall 1817–1818 Sir William Mordaunt Stuart Milner, 4th Baronet 1818–1819 John Yorke of Richmond 1819–1820 William Wrightson...
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    Battle of Culloden (category Charles Edward Stuart)
    eldest son of James Stuart, the exiled Stuart claimant to the British throne. Believing there was support for a Stuart restoration in both Scotland and...
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    in varying forms by the early 17th century, and at the time of the Stuart Restoration, enjoyed a brief resurgence. Gin became vastly more popular as an...
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    influential dramatists of his day; during his lifetime and in the Stuart Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's. Fletcher collaborated in writing...
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    Nottingham Castle is a Stuart Restoration-era ducal mansion in Nottingham, England, built on the site of a Norman castle built starting in 1068, and added...
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    during the 1655 to 1657 Rule of the Major-Generals. He backed the Stuart Restoration in May 1660, and was raised to the peerage of England as Lord Ashley...
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