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The inscription reads: 'His majesty King Charles I passed through this hall and out of a window nearly over this tablet to the scaffold in Whitehall where he was beheaded on 30th January 1649'. Patron of the arts
- January 30, 1649
- When Was Charles I executed?
- Where Was Charles I executed?
- How Did Charles I Die?
- Samuel Pepys: Witness to The Execution
30 January 1649 was a day like no other. Early that winter’s morning, a large crowd of men, women and children assembled in the ‘open street before Whitehall’. They waited in anticipation of an unprecedented event that would shake the nation to its very core. They had turned out to watch the execution of their king.
At about ten o’clock, to the beat of military drums, the King was marched by soldiers across St James’s Park to the Palace of Whitehall. On the cold morning of his execution, Charles requested two shirts to wear stating that: Just after two o’clock he was led into Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House, passing under Rubens’s painted ceiling that glorified...
With one blow of his axe the executioner severed the King’s head from his body killing him instantly. A young boy described how the blow of the axe was not met with a cheer but with ‘such a groan as I have never heard before, and desire I may never hear again’. The King’s head was held up to the crowd. The spectators, some who had watched in approv...
Samuel Pepys saw the King’s execution with his own eyes. As a curious 15-year-old, he and some friends played truant from St Paul’s School to watch the gruesome act. Among the bystanders he seems to have been in the Republican camp. Although the occasion pre-dated his diary by some eleven years, the few tantalising words Pepys wrote in his journal,...
Feb 17, 2011 · Common wisdom has it that the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 was a desperate, aberrant act by a small and reluctant minority of English parliamentarians - opposed by the...
Jan 16, 2023 · Held prisoner by Parliament, Charles I secretly arranged that a Scottish army would invade England to help him regain his throne. Parliament tried the King for treason and sentenced him to death. He was beheaded on 30 January 1649 in front of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, before a crowd of men and women who had come to witness the ...
5 days ago · Charles I (born November 19, 1600, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland—died January 30, 1649, London, England) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1625–49), whose authoritarian rule and quarrels with Parliament provoked a civil war that led to his execution.
- Charles I was the king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1625 to 1649. Like his father, James I, and grandmother Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I ru...
- Charles I was born in 1600 to James VI of Scotland (who later became James I) and Anne of Denmark. He was a sickly child and was devoted to his bro...
- When his brother, Henry, died in 1612, Charles became heir to the throne. He formed an alliance with the duke of Buckingham. In the last 18 months...
- From the beginning of his reign, Charles I demonstrated a distrust of the House of Commons. Parliament was critical of his government, condemning h...
- On January 20, 1649, Charles I was brought before a specially constituted court and charged with high treason and “other high crimes against the re...
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The trial and execution of Charles took place in January 1649, with his death marking the end of Stuart rule in England until the restoration of the monarchy 11 years later. After Charles’ execution, Oliver Cromwell, whose signature can be seen on Charles I's death warrant, gradually established himself the ruler of England.
England, the King was impeached 'as a Tyrant, Traitor, Murderer, and a public and implacable Enemy to the Commonwealth of England'. The following extracts are from contemporary accounts of the trial. Those present noticed that Charles, who had never been a good speaker throughout his life as he had a speech impediment, spoke fluently,
