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England in the Seventeeth

            
            
            
             • 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.


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