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2 days ago · Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
- Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of...
- James II of England
James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701)...
- Catherine of Braganza
Catherine of Braganza (Portuguese: Catarina de Bragança; 25...
- Execution of Charles I
Excerpt from Charles I's speech upon the scaffold, as...
- Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria FitzRoy
Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria Paston, Countess of...
- Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth
Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1657 – 17 October...
- Charles I of England
4 days ago · 1680 Pueblo Revolt (Santa Fe de Nuevo México, New Spain, victorious) 18th century. ... As an example, an ad in the Virginia Gazette of August 4, 1768, ...
1 day ago · 1680: Christiaan Huygens provides the first known description of a piston engine. 1698: Thomas Savery developes a steam-powered water pump: for draining mines; 18th century 1700s. 1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano. 1709: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer. 1710s
2 days ago · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a ...
4 days ago · Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution . The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV ), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died ...
- 10 May 1774 – 21 September 1792
- Maria Josepha of Saxony
4 days ago · 1680–1736 1718 First Lord of the Admiralty 535 Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull: 1665–1726 1719 Lord President of the Council 536 Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland: 1675–1722 1719 First Lord of the Treasury 537 Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton: 1683–1757 1721 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 538
2 days ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
