dec 25, 1648 - The Effects of the English CIvil War

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Parliament defeated the king’s forces in the civil war and in 1649 King Charles I was beheaded for treason. The leader of Parliament’s military, Oliver Cromwell, took power and promised to create a republic but established a military dictatorship instead. This military dictatorship, called the Commonwealth, lasted until Cromwell’s death in 1658. In 1659 the English Parliament reconvened and voted to restore the Monarch. The oldest son of Charles I, Charles II was invited to take the throne. §The relationship between Parliament the king during the reign of Charles II was generally congenial. Charles II agreed to a law that gave his subjects the right to habeas corpus and respected Parliament’s traditional right to control taxation.

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