The Interregnum (In Our Time)
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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. When Parliament executed Charles it had also killed Scot
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1649
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)