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2 days ago · The House of Tudor ( / ˈtjuːdər /) [1] was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. [2] They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd, a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois. The Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) for 118 years ...
2 days ago · Caroline period (1625–1649) 1649–1688. 1700–1950. v. t. e. The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church.
May 9, 2024 · James II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) and replaced by William III and Mary II. That revolution, engendered by James’s Roman Catholicism, permanently established Parliament as the ruling power in England.
- James II succeeded his brother, Charles II, as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1685 and was deposed by the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
- James II converted to Roman Catholicism before coming to the throne. His placement of Catholic allies in high positions in the court and army, coup...
- James II was the last British Stuart king in the direct line. The Glorious Revolution that overthrew him also permanently established Parliament as...
- James II’s first wife, Anne, was Protestant (though she converted to Catholicism), and their daughters were Mary II (wife of William of Orange and...
May 9, 2024 · When Elizabeth died childless in 1603, leaving the crown to James VI of Scotland, the son of her longtime rival Mary, Queen of Scots, she effectively ended the Tudor dynasty after just three ...
1 day ago · In 1603, Elizabeth I died after a reign of almost forty-five years, to be succeeded by James VI of Scotland. Her reputation then was ‘far less rosy’ than it is today. She had long declined to marry or name a successor, and yet the regime changed from Tudor to Stuart with apparent ease, leaving the institutions of government, Parliament and the Church ‘fundamentally intact’.
May 20, 2024 · House of Stuart, royal house of Scotland from 1371 and of England from 1603, when James VI inherited the English throne as James I. It was interrupted in 1649 by the establishment of the Commonwealth but was restored in 1660.
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May 23, 2024 · 1509 - 1547. 21 April 1509. Henry VII died and his son Henry VIII succeeds to the throne. 1513. 30 June 1513. A 35,000-strong English army, led by Henry VIII, lands at Calais, which is ruled by England. 9 September 1513. King James IV of Scotland is killed at the Battle of Flodden. James's son becomes James V of Scotland at the age of 18 months.
