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  • William Penn (Admiral)/Definition
    ...the rank of Admiral under the English Commonwealth, and retained it under Charles II, also serving on the Navy Board
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  • James VII and II
    '''James VII and II''' (1633 - 1701) succeeded his brother Charles II as king of [[Scotland]] and [[England]] in 1685, having previously been Duk
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  • Odo, Count of Paris
    ...Paris (885-886)|first Siege of Paris]]. When the emperor [[Charles the Fat|Charles II ("the fat")]] was deposed in November [[887]], by the diet of Tribur (Dièt
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  • Charleroi
    ...abitants. It was founded in 1666 by the Spaniards and named after the king Charles II of Spain.
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  • Restoration
    ...n''', as a term by itself, normally refers to the events of 1660 whereby [[Charles II]] was recognised as king of [[England]] and [[Scotland]], and returned from
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  • William Penn (Admiral)
    ...expedition, jointly commanded by him, which captured [[Jamaica]]. Under [[Charles II]], he had some commands at sea, but more significantly served on the Navy B
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  • United Kingdom/Catalogs/Kings and Queens
    ...lic not a kingdom) but with the re-instatement of the crown in the form of Charles II the two kingdoms were once again politically separate. It was not until Que
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  • Scotland/Catalogs/Kings and Queens
    ...and were joined as one state. This broke apart with the reinstatement of [[Charles II]]. It was not until the reign of Queen [[Anne]] at the beginning of the 18t |[[Charles II]]
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  • Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse
    ...n she is not in residence. The Palace was started in 1501 and completed by Charles II, and [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] lived there between 1561 and 1567. Today, the
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  • Charles II
    '''Charles II''' (1630–1685) was recognised as king of [[England]] by royalists on the
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  • England/Catalogs/Kings and Queens
    |[[Charles II]] ...th") was proclaimed. The Cromwells were given the title of Lord Protector. Charles II dated his reign from the day of his father's execution, but was recognized
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  • Samuel Pepys
    ...which Mountagu played a leading part, being created Earl of Sandwich by [[Charles II]]. Shortly afterwards, Pepys was made Clerk of the Acts in the Navy Board, ...e and incompetence among naval officers. Shortly after his return in 1684 Charles II took the Admiralty out of the hands of the Commissioners and into his own c
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  • Manitoba
    In 1670, when the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] was founded, King [[Charles II of England]] claimed he had the authority to grant rights to Manitoba and a
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  • Robert Herrick
    ...of lyrics, ''Hesperides'' (1648), to the Prince of Wales, soon to become [[Charles II]] on the execution of his father. At the [[Restoration]] he was restored t
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  • David Hume/Bibliography
    ...y of Great Britain'', vol 1, Containing the Commonwealth and the Reigns of Charles II and James II (London, A. Millar, 1757) revised 1759.
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  • William III
    ...nst France. For help he turned to England, the country of his two uncles [[Charles II]] and [[James VII and II|James, Duke of York]]. In 1677, Willem Hendrik mar In 1685, Charles II died and James succeeded him as King of England and Scotland. He alarmed ma
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  • William Penn (Quaker)
    [[Charles II]] had issued a Declaration of Indulgence, which eased conditions for the Qu ...duct his dispute, he also took up the cause of persecuted nonconformists. Charles II died in 1685, and the Duke of York came to the throne as James VII (of Scot
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  • Horse racing
    ...glish Restoration|Restoration]] in 1660. In 1664, [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] instituted the [[Newmarket Town Plate]] and wrote its rules himself: ...he first day of October, 1664, in the 16th year of our Sovereign Lord King Charles II, which Plate is to be rid for yearly, the second Thursday in October for ev
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  • Thomas Hobbes
    ...English Civil War]]. He was briefly the tutor to the future English King [[Charles II]]. In Paris Hobbes was a member of the circle of anti-Aristotelian philosop
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  • Plymouth, Devon
    ...vil War]], holding out with difficulty. After the [[Restoration]], when [[Charles II]] built a citadel at Plymouth, it was sited to dominate the town as well as
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  • Robert Barclay
    ...rk as well drawn up as the subject could possibly admit. The dedication to Charles II., instead of being filled with mean, flattering encomiums, abounds with bol
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  • Thomas Ruddiman
    ...chment which he showed by bursting into tears on hearing of the death of [[Charles II]]. <ref>[http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/ruddiman_thomas.htm
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  • Alexander Monro primus
    ...ngest son of Sir Alexander Monro of Bearcrofts, a colonel in the army of [[Charles II]] at the [[battle of Worcester]]. John Monro was a surgeon in the army of K
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  • Republicanism/Bibliography
    ...pment, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies'' (1959, 2004). [http://oll.libert
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  • Scarborough Castle/Citable Version
    ...n|religious]] activities viewed as troublesome for [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] (reigned 1660-1685).<ref>Walmsley (1998: 1; 3).</ref> The castle soon beg
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  • South Carolina (U.S. state)
    North Carolina is named after King [[Charles II of England]], as ''Carolus'' is Latin for Charles.
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  • Virginia (U.S. state)
    ...beth I|Queen Elizabeth I]], and was nicknamed the ''Old Dominion'' by King Charles II because Virginia remained loyal to the crown during the [[English Civil War
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  • Oliver Cromwell
    ...emselves to have their lines of communication cut, followed the young King Charles II into England. Cromwell surrounded and destroyed the Scottish army at Worces ...for less than a year, whereupon Parliament restored the monarchy, under [[Charles II]]. After the king was restored, in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was dug up,
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  • George Fox
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  • Scarborough Castle
    ...ber 1666 for [[religion|religious]] activities viewed as troublesome for [[Charles II]] (reigned 1660-1685).<ref>Walmsley (1998: 1; 3).</ref> The castle soon beg
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  • History of England/Timelines
    ...e execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in 1660 during which the various governments of the Commonwealth and Cromwe '''The Restoration'''. Charles II (1660-85)[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/charles_ii_king.sht
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  • Scottish people
    ...ere to play a important role in the wars and in the later reinstatement of Charles II. Though Charles then turned to persecutor trying to stamp out the Covenante
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  • John Home
    ...to Episcopacy. The Presbyterians of that time were near enough the days of Charles II and James VII to understand what that meant. When resistance to the occupat
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  • Louis XIV
    ...panish possessions between them, to be carried into effect on the death of Charles II of Spain. With this trump card up his sleeve Louis accepted the [[Treaty of ...this point Louis arranged the secret [[Treaty of Dover]] (May 1670) with [[Charles II]] of England by which the two kings undertook to wage a war of exterminatio
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  • Pennsylvania, history
    In March 1681, King Charles II, in payment of a longs-standing debt to Admiral [[William Penn (Admiral)|Wi
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  • History of Quakers in the Americas
    ...iam Penn (Quaker)|William Penn]], whose late father was owed money by King Charles II, in 1682 received ownership of [[Pennsylvania, history|Pennsylvania]], whic
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  • Quakers
    In 1660, following the [[Restoration]] of [[Charles II]] the Church of England was re-established as the official church. Quakers
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  • CZ Talk:Naming conventions
    ...ons into English): "{Monarch's first name and ordinal}, ({Country})". Thus Charles II (Spain)" ...Wikipedia has a disambig page that leads to strange results--for example "Charles II" also includes the great political philosopher Montesquieu (they use an inc
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  • Royal Mile
    ...n she is not in residence. The Palace was started in 1501 and completed by Charles II. Adjacent to the Palace is '''Holyrood Abbey''', an Augustinian Abbey built
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  • Republicanism
    ...sh Restoration|restoration]] of the monarchy under [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] discredited republicanism among England's ruling circles. However they we
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  • Tennessee (U.S. state)
    King Charles II of England included the Tennessee country in the Carolina grants of 1663 an
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  • Public debt
    ...- and "sovereign default" was a frequent occurrence. In England, however, Charles II's "Stop of Exchequer"<ref>[http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cg
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  • Virginia, history
    ...n|Restoration]], in recognition of Virginia's loyalty to the crown, King [[Charles II of England]] bestowed Virginia with the nickname "The Old Dominion", which
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  • Edinburgh Free Thinkers' Zetetic Society
    ...the persons forming it might be imprisoned, and even hanged. By an act of Charles II, while there was no law against blasphemy in Scotland, '''if any person or
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  • Palau
    ...d]] (now in the Federated States of Micronesia) "La Carolina" after [[King Charles II]] of Spain. The name was later generalized to include all the islands.{{Ima
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  • England
    ...1649–1651) saw fighting between supporters of [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] and supporters of the [[Rump Parliament]]. The Civil War ended with the P ...ivil War led to the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of his son Charles II and the replacement of the English monarchy with the [[Commonwealth of Engl
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  • South Carolina, History
    ...ounded [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charles Town]], named in honor of King Charles II.
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  • United Kingdom
    [[Horse racing]] has been very popular in England ever since the time of [[Charles II]] when it became known as the "Sport of Kings". It remains a royal pastime
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  • Colonial America
    ...e [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] (originally Charles Town for [[Charles II of England]]), thus beginning the English colonization of the mainland. The
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  • Church of Scotland
    ...ment," and the new version of the Metrical Psalms. Following the return of Charles II to the throne in Restoration of 1660 and the "killing time" of the Covenant
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  • History of England
    ...well]] dissatisfaction with the various factions led to the Restoration of Charles II. Nevertheless, by the end of the Stuart era a political consensus had emer
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  • W. S. Gilbert
    ...h, until Lady Gilbert's death in 1936. A statue of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] was carved by Danish sculptor [[Caius Gabriel Cibber]] in 1681 and placed
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  • Mumbai
    ...priated the islands from [[Bahadur Shah of Gujarat]]. They were ceded to [[Charles II of England]] in 1661, as [[dowry]] for [[Catherine de Braganza]]. These isl
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