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May 25, 1660: Under invitation by leaders of the English Commonwealth, Charles II, the exiled king of England, sets
sail for Dover, England, to assume the throne and end 11 years of military rule.
Prince of Wales at the time of the English Civil War, Charles fled to France after Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarians
defeated King Charles I’s Royalists in 1646. In 1649, Charles vainly attempted to save his father’s life by presenting
Parliament a signed blank sheet of paper, thereby granting whatever terms were required. However, Oliver Cromwell
was determined to execute Charles I, and on January 30, 1649, the king was beheaded in London.
After his father’s death, Charles was proclaimed king of England by the Scots and by supporters in parts of Ireland
and England, and he traveled to Scotland to raise an army. In 1651, Charles invaded England but was defeated by
Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester. Charles escaped to France and later lived in exile in Germany and then in the
Spanish Netherlands. After Cromwell’s death in 1658, the English republican experiment faltered. Cromwell’s son
Richard proved an ineffectual leader, and the public resented the strict Puritanism of England’s military rulers.
In 1660, in what is known as the English Restoration, General George Monck met with Charles and arranged to
restore him in exchange for a promise of amnesty and religious toleration for his former enemies. On May 29, 1660,
Charles entered London in triumph. It was his 30th birthday, and London rejoiced at his arrival. In the first year of
the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was posthumously convicted of treason and his body disinterred from its tomb in
Westminster Abbey and hanged from the gallows at Tyburn.
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