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Portrait of Charles II ... Scotland and Ireland, whose restoration to the throne in 1660 marked the end of republican rule in England. Charles was born on 29 May 1630, the eldest surviving son of ...
Charles II (r. 1660-1685) The eldest surviving son of Charles I, Charles had been eight years old when Civil War broke out. He was with his father at the Battle of Edgehill and in Oxford, until ordered by him to seek the safety of France. The Scots were horrified when Charles I was executed in 1649, and while England became a republic, they ...
Charles II was asked to come back and rule Britain. In 1660, Charles II was brought back to Britain and took his throne. This was the English Restoration . Many of his enemies were punished for having executed his father and fought against him, but Richard Cromwell was allowed to go and live quietly away from London.
Charles II. View full image. Charles II was King of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was King of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland when monarchy was restored in 1660 until he died in 1685. (Catalogue ref: T 40/1C) Return to Significant People.
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651, and King of Scotland, England and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
King Charles II. After the execution of his father King Charles I, Charles became King of Scotland from 1649 until defeated by Cromwell’s forces at the Battle of Worcester in1651. After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, he took the throne as King Charles II of Scotland, England and Ireland…. On 29th May 1660, on his 30th birthday ...
Charles II of England. Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from January 30, 1649 (de jure) or May 29, 1660 (de facto) until his death. His father Charles I had been executed in 1649, following the English Civil War; the monarchy was then abolished and England, and ...
