The Interregnum (In Our Time)
1649 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the period between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the unexpected restoration of his son Charles II in 1660, known as The Interregnum. It was marked in England by an elusive pursuit of stability, with serious consequences in Scotland and notorious ones in Ireland.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1649
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)