• Took the throne in 1625.
• Parliament did not like him due to his personality and his ways which led to a debate on the constitutional powers of the Crown and Parliament .
• Charles requested tax increases which the Parliament refused to grant.
Eleven Years of Tranny.
• 1629 Charles brought England the closest its ever been to absolutism .
Ongoing war in Ireland shattered this.
1640 Charles I recalled Parliament for support in order to fund the war.
• Charles I was required to deal with disobedient parliamentarians who tried to put a stop to the king's attempts to raise money .
• 1643 to 1649 Royalists and Roundhands fought in battles for the control of the government.
• 1646 parliamentarians captured Charles I and attempted to negotiate with his, he refused .
• Parliamentarians charged Charles I with treason feeling that there was no alternative.
January 30, 1649 Charles I was beheaded.
• From 1649 to 1658 England was governed as a parliamentary republic under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell.
• Only main difference between the government that was put in place in 1649 and the previous one was the absence of monarch.
• Oliver Cromwell passed away in 1658 and left England without a ruler.
• Charles II was invited back to the throne eleven years after his fathers death.
• impossible for Charles II and any English monarch to pass laws or raise revenues without Parliament's approval.
The Glorious Revolution.
• After the death of Charles II his brother James II came to the throne in 1685.
• James II planed to reinstate the Roman Catholic faith and restore the power of the English monarch .
Offensive act separated the English people and encouraged many people to oppose the king.
• Dutch Monarch William of Orange was asked by parliamentarians to invade England and take control of the throne.