English Restoration (25 Mai 1660 Jahr – 25 Sept 1688 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

In 1660, General George Monck met with Charles and arranged to restore him in exchange for a promise of amnesty and religious toleration for his former enemies. On May 25, 1660, Charles landed at Dover and four days later entered London in triumph. It was his 30th birthday, and London rejoiced at his arrival. In the first year of the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason and his body disinterred from its tomb in Westminster Abbey and hanged from the gallows at Tyburn. The restoration ended in 1688, when the glorious revolution kicked in