The English Interregnum was the period of republican rule after the English Civil War between the regicide of Charles I in 1649 and the restoration of Charles II in 1660. An interregnum is a period between kings, or between popes of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Republican as a term used generally to describe a number of different organisations, principles or political movements, and/or the persons supporting these. ... The English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, specifically to the first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king. ... Charles I (19 November 1600–30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. ... Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ... Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ...
The English Interregnum was the period of parliamentary and military rule in the land occupied by modern-day England and Wales after the English Civil War.
This was the beginning of a short period of restoration of the Commonwealth of England.
Towards the end of the Interregnum, Parliamentarian generals, Charles Coote and Richard Boyle (who were also pre-war English settlers) seized the strong points in Ireland in preparation for the Restoration of the monarchy.
The first decade was occupied with the Civil War in England, with the reduction of Ireland and Scotland, with the abolition of the kingship and of the House of Lords, with the early and crude efforts of the Rump Parliament to conduct the business of the nation alone.
England and New England were now moving in nearly parallel lines, and a spirit of sympathy existed between the dominant parties in each.
submitted arguments in England against the latter proposition and in defence of the integrity of his own province, arguments which were forced from him as well by the doings of Bennett and Claiborne in Maryland as by the insistence of the Virginians on the restoration of their former bounds.
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