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Jamestown was the first permanent settlement of English settlers. It was in Virginia -
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11 years when King Charles I ruled England without calling a parliament.
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The Covenant appeared after the introduction of the New Prayer Book in Scotland perceived unacceptable. -
The Militia Act was signed by the parliament during the Irish Rebellion of October 1641. It announced that parliament had the control over any army sent in Ireland.
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A document where parliament shares revolutionnary demands. The text divided the parliament into 2 groups, the Royalists who supported the King and the Parliamentarians who wanted reforms. -
The first civil war lasted 4 years, from 1642 to 1649. It opposed Parliamentarians and the King who was supported by the Royalists. The Parliamentarians defeated the King. The second civil war lasted from 1647 to 1649.
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On November 1647, King Charles allied himself with the Scots, promising he will introduce Calvinism in England.
The Royalists were easliy defeatd by Cromwell. -
After the regicide, monarchy and the House of Lords had been abolished. The interregnum can be split in two period. The first one is England as a commonwealth. It was not very effective as it was hard to reach stability for many reasons. It lasted from 1649 to 1653.
The second period is the Protectorate. It is a military dictatorship ruled by Cromwell. It ended in 1658 when he died. -
After he lost both civil wars, King Charles I had been tried and executed. -
Charles II wanted to restore monarchy. In order to, he wrote the Declaration of Breda in which he promised a general amnesty, religious toleration and to share power with parliament. It worked since people longed for a return to order.
May 29 of 1660 marked The Restoration. -
The Clarendon Code is a series of repressive laws passed during the first 5 years of The Restoration concerning non conformists and dissenters.
It included the Five miles Act. -
Parliament tried to debar James II, the brother of Charles II, from succession to the English throne because they were afraid he would restore Catholicism once he become King.
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William of Orange, the husband of James II's daughter, invaded England in order to seize the crown. The Glorious Revolution is a key event since it transformed England into a Constitutional Monarchy. -
The Bill of Rights is stil an essential document of British constitution. It set out the rights of both parliament and civils. It also fixed limitations on the sovereign's powers. -
England and Scotland became a single kingdom. -
The Jacobite are the ones who supported the Stuarts dynasty. -
The British Empire gained Florida over the
Spanish and many parts of Canada
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After the American War for independencen, England recognise the United States as an independent country. -
England and Scotland already formed a single kingdom since 1707. In 1801 Ireland joined the kingdom