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English Revolution (Not to be confused with Glorious Revolution. In Marxism, the "English Revolution" is the period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period (1649–1660), in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649. This was followed by a ten-year period of bourgeois republican government, the "Commonwealth", before monarchy was restored in the shape of Charles' son, Charles II in 1660. WK. the events of 1688-89 by which James II was expelled and the sovereignty conferred on William and Mary. Also called Bloodless Revolution, Glorious Revolution. RHWD Alexander Demidov) |
