HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Charles II
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Charles I
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James I
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George I
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Detailed explanation-1: -Personal rule. Charles avoided calling a Parliament for the next decade, a period known as the “personal rule of Charles I", or by its critics as the “Eleven Years’ Tyranny". During this period, Charles’s policies were determined by his lack of money.
Detailed explanation-2: -Seven years of fighting between Charles’ supporters and Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians claimed the lives of thousands, and ultimately, of the King himself. Charles was convicted of treason and executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
Detailed explanation-3: -The English Civil Wars comprised three wars, which were fought between Charles I and Parliament between 1642 and 1651.
Detailed explanation-4: -Personal Rule Charles was furious. He dissolved Parliament and for 11 years, from 1629, he ruled the country without any Parliament at all. This period became known as Charles’s Personal Rule.
Detailed explanation-5: -The period from March 1629 to April 1640 later became known as the Personal Rule because Charles I did not summon Parliament during this time.