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Há 1 dia · Partly to assuage public fears that the royal family was too Catholic, Charles agreed that James's daughter, Mary, should marry the Protestant William of Orange. In 1678, Titus Oates, who had been alternately an Anglican and Jesuit priest, falsely warned of a "Popish Plot" to assassinate the king, even accusing the queen of complicity.
- 29 May 1660 –, 6 February 1685
- Henrietta Maria of France
Há 1 dia · Mary married their Dutch Protestant cousin, William III of Orange, in 1677, and Anne married the Lutheran Prince George of Denmark in 1683. On Charles's death in 1685, James succeeded to the throne, but just three years later he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
- 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714
- Anne Hyde
Há 5 dias · Parliament declared he had “abdicated the government” and offered the throne to his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. The Act of Settlement set rules for succession, including that all successors must be Protestant descendants of Princess Sophia , specifically excluding Roman Catholics, and mandating the Sovereign ...
Há 1 dia · Biography Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599 [6] to Robert Cromwell and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Steward. [7] The family's estate derived from Oliver's great-great-grandfather Morgan ap William, a brewer from Glamorgan who settled at Putney and married Katherine Cromwell (born 1482), the sister of Thomas Cromwell , who would become the famous chief minister ...
- Soldier and statesman
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- pre-1642 (militia service), 1642–1651 (civil war)
- Robert Cromwell (father), Elizabeth Steward (mother)
Há 5 dias · On May 7, 1984, seven chemical companies, including Dow and Monsanto, agree to pay $180 million to thousands of Vietnam veterans exposed to the chemical herbicide Agent Orange during the war.
Há 4 dias · Notwithstanding his former intrigues, Montagu gained the favour of King James II of England, on his accession to the throne; but this did not deter him from welcoming William of Orange, who created him Viscount Monthermer and Earl of Montagu later in 1689, on his accession to the English throne.
Há 5 dias · The Crowning Inglory. On 7 May 2023, Charles Windsor was crowned King Charles III of England and its dominions with the crown of St Edward the Confessor, made for the coronation of Charles Stuart, King Charles II in 1661, following the Restoration. The history of Charles II makes the St Edward Crown hardly fit to be at the centre of all the ...
