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March 1649
England is declared a Commonwealth
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19th May 1649
The Monarchy is formally abolished in Ireland and England
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The Rump
The name of the first regime of the English Commonwealth ending in 1653
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210
Number of members in the Rump
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1648-50
The Diggers
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George Winstanley
The leader of the Diggers
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April 1649
The Diggers set up a colony on St George’s Hill, Surrey
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August 1649
The Diggers abandon St George’s Hill
The pacification of Ireland begins
The pacification of Ireland begins
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20,000
The number of NMA soldiers that Cromwell took to Ireland
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3-11 September 1649
Drogheda massacre
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October 1649
Wexford massacre
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Major-General Thomas Harrison
The leader of the Fifth Monarchists
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George Fox
Founder of the Quakers
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John Lilburne
Leader of the Levellers, who later became a Quaker
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May 1650
The Adultery Act
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June 1650
Fairfax resigns as Lord General, Cromwell replaces him
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August 1650
The Blasphemy Act
The outbreak of the Third Civil War
The outbreak of the Third Civil War
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3rd September 1650
The Battle of Dunbar is won by Cromwell
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3,000 to 10
Scottish soldiers to NMA soldiers lost at Dunbar
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September 1650
The Toleration Act
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3rd September 1651
The Battle of Worcester is won by Cromwell
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Council of State
Replaced the House of Lords, elected annually and had no fewer than 13 members and no more than 21 during the Rump
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November 1651
The Navigation Act
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January 1652
The Hale Commission
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1652-4
The First Anglo-Dutch War
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April-December 1653
Barebone’s Parliament aka Nominated Assembly
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December 1653-May 1657
The Instrument of Government
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John Lambert
NMA officer responsible for the success of the Scottish campaign and drafting the Instrument of Government
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September 1654-January 1655
The First Protectorate Parliament
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1654-8
Cromwell is Lord Protector
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1654-60
The Western Design
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August 1655-January 1657
The Rule of the Major Generals
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Decimation tax
An unpopular tax levied during the rule of the Major Generals
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September 1656-February 1658
The Second Protectorate Parliament
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October 1656
The Nayler Case
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January 1657
Sindercombe Plot to assassinate Cromwell
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March 1657
The Humble Petition and Advice offers the crown to Cromwell
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May 1657
Cromwell rejects the offer of the crown
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3 September 1658
Cromwell dies
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January-April 1659
The Third Protectorate Parliament
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May 1659
Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector and the Rump is recalled
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October 1659
The Rump is replaced by an Army Committee of Safety
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December 1659
The Rump is recalled by Monck
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Blair Worden
‘An ideological schizophrenic’
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heal and settle
Cromwell’s conservative ideal for the nation
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godly reformation
Cromwell’s radical ideal for the nation
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Richard Cromwell
Replaced Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector
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George Monck
Presided over the Restoration of 1660, allowing the Rump to return in December 1659
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February 1660
Monck recalled the MPs purged in Pride’s Purge in 1648 restoring the Long Parliament only so that it could dissolve itself and call new elections
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April 1660
The Convention Parliament assembled and votes for the return of the King
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