Restoration (Scotland)
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The Restoration was the return of the monarchy to Scotland in 1660 after the period of the Commonwealth, and the subsequent three decades of Scottish history until the Revolution and Convention of Est
Charles II, restored to the throne of Scotland in 1660
The Scots holding the young Charles II's nose to the grindstone of the Engagement, from a satirical English pamphlet.
General George Monck, who was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II
James Sharp, a Resolutioner and then archbishop, who was murdered in 1679
Stuart Restoration
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The Stuart Restoration was the return in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ending the Interregnum and the Commonwealth of England that had been establi
Restoration (Scotland)
…the Commonwealth, and the subsequent three decades of Scottish history until the Revolution and Convention of Estates of 1689. It was part of a wider Restoration in the British Isles that included the return of the Stuart dynasty to the thrones of England and Ireland in the person of Charles II. As military…
King Charles II in coronation robes by John Michael Wright
The departure of Charles II from Scheveningen (1660)
Thomas Harrison, the first person found guilty of regicide during the Restoration
Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the start of the Glorious Revolution in 1688