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Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.
19 May – passage of Act of Uniformity 1662, approval of 1662 Book of Common Prayer; 16 May – hearth tax is introduced in England, Wales and Scotland. 21 May – Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England at Portsmouth in both a secret Catholic and a public Anglican ceremony the day after they first meet. [1]
The third part of the first session of the 2nd Parliament of King Charles II (the 'Cavalier Parliament') which met from 7 January 1662 until 19 May 1662. This session was also traditionally cited as 14 Car. 2, 14 Chas. 2 or 14 C. 2.
The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Cha. 2.c. 4) is an Act of the Parliament of England. (It was formerly cited as 13 & 14 Cha. 2.c. 4, by reference to the regnal year when it was passed on 19 May 1662.)
In 1662, Charles II, short of money and concerned that Dunkirk was a potential liability for international relations, sold it to France. The purchase price was five million livres . The banker Edward Backwell , who served as Treasurer of Dunkirk under both the Republican and Royal governments, was instrumental in the sale. [ 6 ]
Charles was proclaimed King again on 14 May 1660. He was not crowned, having been previously crowned at Scone in 1651. The Restoration "presented an occasion of universal celebration and rejoicing throughout Scotland". [16] Charles II summoned his parliament on 1 January 1661, which began to undo all that been forced on his father Charles I of ...
Charles I, head of the House of Stuart, was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his death on 30 January 1649. He believed in a sacramental version of the Church of England, called High Anglicanism, with a theology based upon Arminianism, a belief shared by his main political advisor, Archbishop William Laud.
The wedding of King Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. The Marriage Treaty, or Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, was a treaty of alliance that was agreed between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Portugal and concluded on 23 June 1661. [1] It led to the marriage of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, the daughter of John IV of ...