Oliver Cromwell dies
1658 · Event
The Lord Protector dies at Whitehall on 3 September — the anniversary of Dunbar and Worcester — during the greatest storm in living memory, which royalists read as the Devil collecting his own. The republic he held together by force of person begins unravelling within months.
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