Stuart period information

Stuart era
Stuart era
1603–1714
	King Charles I and the soldiers of the English Civil War as illustrated in An Island Story: A Child's History of England (1906)
Including	Jacobean era; Caroline era; Interregnum; Restoration;
Monarch(s)	James I; Charles I; Charles II; James II; Mary II; William III; Anne;
Leader(s)	Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell;
Elizabethan era	Georgian era

The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart. The period was plagued by internal and religious strife, and a large-scale civil war which resulted in the execution of King Charles I in 1649. The Interregnum, largely under the control of Oliver Cromwell, is included here for continuity, even though the Stuarts were in exile. The Cromwell regime collapsed and Charles II had very wide support for his taking of the throne in 1660. His brother James II was overthrown in 1689 in the Glorious Revolution. He was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband William III. Mary's sister Anne was the last of the line. For the next half century James II and his son James Francis Edward Stuart and grandson Charles Edward Stuart claimed that they were the true Stuart kings, but they were in exile and their attempts to return with French aid were defeated. The period ended with the death of Queen Anne and the accession of King George I from the German House of Hanover.

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