This inauguration day, reading passages from the trial and disposition of Charles I (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, ...

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Hyde to King Charles I: “He desired the King to consider his ill condition… how unlike it was to be improved by the continuance of the war.” Whitelocke to his ... It is commonplace to observe that the ...

Charles I became King of England in 1625. He fell out with the English Parliament for several reasons. The disputes escalated into a civil war in 1642. After nearly seven years of war, Charles was ...

Charles I became King of England in 1625. He repeatedly fell out with the English Parliament, which resulted in the outbreak of a civil war in 1642. The execution of Charles I In 1649, Charles I ...

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On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.

With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...