the restoration of the monarchy
by Maddalena Marinaccio
1. -ordered the bodies of regicides(including Cromwell) to be exhumed and hanged -Corporation Act (1661) which excluded the dissenters from public office -Act of Uniformity (1662) which imposedthe use of Book of Common Prayer -Test act (1673) which required all public employees to conform to the church of England
2. In 1685 Charles II died and was succeeded by his brother James II
3. James II converted to Catholicism
4. in 1688 -> William of Orange marched across southern England in 1689 -> Wiliam and Mary became joint monarchs at the request of parliament
5. a revolution had taken place as the monarch had been chosen by Parliament and not by "divine right"
6. this revolution was known as the "BLOODLESS" OR "GLORIOUS REVOLUTION" -> because it had secceeded without fighting
7. WILLIAM AND MARY'S REIGN (1689 - 1702)
8. -Toleration Act 1689 -> introduced more religious tolerance by granting freedom of worship to dissenting Protestants but excluded Catholics and Unitarians. -Bill of Rights (1689) -> re-enacted freedoms that had been started by Magna Carta and the Petition of Right. It established that the king could levy taxes, raise an army and suspend laws only with the Parliament's consent
9. Anne became queen of England in 1702 (English and Anglican)
10. in 1707 was passed the Act of Union ->by which th Kingdom of England and Scotland was replaced by The United Kingdom of Great Britain with a singular Parliament in Westminster
11. Ireland remained a separate kingdom with its own Parliament, thought subordinate to Westminster, with a Protestant government at Dublin Castle
12. IN FOREIGN POLICY : the Treaty of Utrecht was signed with France in 1713 at the end of the war of Spanish succession
13. Queen Anne died in 1714
14. it gave England the French possessions in Canada and the monopoly of the slave trade with Spanish America => the British Empire was emerging
15. acts were passed which set the course of parliamentary rule in Britain and paved the way to costitutional monarchy.
16. Trade flourished
17. the monarchy was restored in 1660
17.1. Charles II came back to England and established a court devoted to pleasure.
17.1.1. in 1662 Charles patronised the Royal Society (=an association of scientists and intellectuals)