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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
In 1649 King Charles I was tried and executed by Parliament, lead by Oliver Cromwell. Following this there was no King to Britain for 10 years until in 1660 Charles II returned from exile to take the thrown which is when the Restoration period begun - https://youtu.be/fdDKO-Klflo -
Cromwell Protectorate 1653—1660
On January 26, 1649, Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was sentenced to death and soon executed for "criminal actions against the English parliament and people." On March 17, the English parliament announced the abolition of the English monarchy as “unnecessary, burdensome and dangerous for the good of the people”, and on May 19, the “Act of declaring England a republic” was adopted, proclaiming that the country was governed by parliament and its designated officials. -
Glorious revolution
This is a coup d'état as a result of which King James II Stewart was overthrown. The Dutch expeditionary corps under the command of the ruler of the Netherlands, William of Orange, who became the new king of England under the name of William III, took part in the coup. The coup received widespread support among the most diverse strata of English society. -
Anne Stuart
Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland since March 8, 1702. The first monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. She remained the queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. The last representative of the Stuarts dynasty on the English throne. -
Georg Ludwig von Hannover (Georg 1)
King of Great Britain from August 1, 1714, the first representative of the Hanoverian dynasty on the royal throne of Great Britain. Georg Hannover, having ascended the British throne, devoted little time to state affairs, so power was concentrated in the hands of the cabinet of ministers. -
Georg II of Hannover
King of Great Britain and Ireland, Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg from June 11, 1727, son of George I. The last British monarch born outside. -
The first Opium War of 1840–1842
The immediate cause of the outbreak of hostilities was the activities of the Chinese imperial emergency commissioner Lin Zesyuy, who in March 1839 demanded that the British and the Americans in Guangzhou surrender all opium, and when they refused to obey, they blocked the territory of foreign trading posts and recalled the Chinese personnel. The opio-merchants and the superintendent of British commerce, were forced to surrender the entire stock of drugs, which were destroyed. -
The second Opium War of 1856-1860
was waged by Great Britain against the Qing Empire. The prerequisites of the war were the distortion of the trade balance between these countries in favor of China, the cause of which was the Chinese policy of protecting the empire from foreign influence. The commodity that was in demand in China and could level the trade balance, bringing huge profits to the British, was opium, but its sale was prohibited by imperial decrees. -
