January 6, 1649 — The Rump Parliament appoints a High Court to try the King
The Rump Parliament was what remained of the British Parliament after Colonel Pride had purged it a month earlier, leaving...
November 14, 2021
Politics & War
January 30, 1649 — King Charles I of England is executed
It is the decisive exclamation mark that ends the English Civil War. Never before had an English monarch been deposed,...
November 9, 2021
August 15, 1649 — Cromwell lands in Ireland
The initial stages of Cromwell’s invasion of Ireland started well for him. His forces triumphed over the Royalist and Irish...
November 4, 2021
September 3, 1651 — Cromwell’s forces triumph at Worcester
The final encounter of the English Civil War was a bruising and thorough defeat for King Charles the First and...
October 24, 2021
June 3, 1653 — England triumphs over Holland in the Battle of the Gabbard
The decisive naval encounter of the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Battle of the Gabbard saw the English, led by Generals...
October 14, 2021
December 16, 1653 — Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
The final resolution of the power vacuum that existed in England after King Charles I was deposed was somewhat inevitable:...
October 9, 2021
May 8, 1654 — The Treaty of Westminster officially ends the first Anglo-Dutch War
The first Anglo-Dutch War was largely a result of the formation of the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell after...
October 4, 2021
September 3, 1658 — Oliver Cromwell dies
Hated by the Irish for his invasion the previous decade, Oliver Cromwell’s manner of death must have given them some...
September 29, 2021
November 7, 1728 — James Cook born
James Cook, better known to history as Captain Cook, was born in Yorkshire, the second of eight children. After a...
September 4, 2021
October 18, 1767 — Mason and Dixon complete the surveying of the Line between Maryland and Pennsylvania
Charles Mason, a fellow of the Royal Society and noted astronomer, and his sometime assistant, land surveyor and amateur astronomer,...
August 14, 2021
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