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Há 4 dias · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
23 de mai. de 2024 · During the early 19th century, Cromwell began to be portrayed in a positive light by Romantic artists and poets. Thomas Carlyle continued this reassessment in the 1840s, publishing Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations, an annotated collection of his letters and speeches in which he described English Puritanism as "the last of all our Heroisms" while taking a negative view ...
29 de mai. de 2024 · Glorious Revolution, in English history, the events of 1688–89 that resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III, prince of Orange and stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. James II, detail of a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1685; in the National Portrait ...
Há 3 dias · Procession, with Ceremony of the Investiture and Installation of his Highness Oliver Cromwell, as by the Parliament appointed to be performed in Westminster-hall, on June 26, 1657, written by me Edmund Prestwick, of the City of London, an eye and ear-witness to all that passed on this Glorious Occasion.
8 de mai. de 2024 · Grandson of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector and son of Henry Cromwell, the ruler of Ireland during the latter part of the English Civil War. Henry was born in Dublin Castle, the seat of the British government in Ireland. He married Hannah Hewling, the daughter of Benjamin Hewling, a wealthy turkey merchant.
Há 3 dias · The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as ...
9 de mai. de 2024 · Seven Years’ War. Thomas-Arthur, comte de Lally (born Jan. 13, 1702, Romans, Fr.—died May 9, 1766, Paris) was a French general who was executed for capitulating to the British in India during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). The son of an Irish Jacobite exile, Lally served in the Irish Brigade of the French army under Maurice, comte de ...
