The Trial of Charles I (TRIH eps 143-144)
1649 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the trial and execution of Charles I with guest Professor Ted Vallance. The episode situates Charles's downfall in the broader context of religious tensions after the English Reformation, his Personal Rule (1629–1640), fiscal measures like ship money, and court culture that alarmed Puritans. Vallance outlines how political, religious and constitutional conflicts produced the First and then the Second Civil War, highlighting key moments: Naseby (...
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Around 1649
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)