Слайд 2 The 17th Century:
social tensions
high unemployment
declining position of the old aristocracy
tensions
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between a despotic King and a Parliament
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Charles I - a King who spent an awful lot of money
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while his country was poor and sad.
He hated the Puritans.
Слайд 4 1640 – the convocation of Parliament.
The Civil War
1640 – the
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convocation of
Parliament.
The Civil War
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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658)
- an
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English military and political leader.
- a strict Puritan with a Cambridge education.
- served in the Short Parliament (April 1640)
and the Long Parliament (August 1640
through April 1660)
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1620 – he married Elizabeth Bourchier.
1628 – Member of Parliament for
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Huntingdon.
1640 – Member for Cambridge
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1642 – Cromwell formed an armed force in support of the
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Parliament’s Army.
Victories over the Royalists at Marston Moor (1644)
and Naseby (1645)
Cromwell left for Ireland to put down the Irish Civil War.
1653 – He marched into Parliament and dismissed the
members.
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3 September 1658 – died in London.
Cromwell’s son Richard was lord protector
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of England from September 1658 to May1659.
1660 – he fled to Paris.
1680 – returned to England.
Слайд 9 Oliver Cromwell
was a great general and administrator.
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