Charles Stuart, King of Scotland England And Ireland

1630 - 1685  (54 years)

• Name	Charles Stuart  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Title	King of Scotland England And Ireland
  Suffix	II
  Birth	29 May 1630	London, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Christening	27 Jun 1630	London, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Feb 1685	London, England   [5]
  Burial	14 Feb 1685	Middlesex, England   [5]
  Person ID	I7974	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Charles Stuart, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay ,   b. 18 Nov 1600, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 30 Jan 1649 (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Henrietta Maria De Bourbon, Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland ,   b. 25 Nov 1609, Île-De-France, France d. 10 Sep 1669, Île-De-France, France (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1 May 1625	Île-De-France, France
  Family ID	F4590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Davies, Queen Of Scotland ,   b. 2 Feb 1649, London, England d. 1708, Gloucestershire, England (Age 58 years)
  Children	+ 1. Mary Tudor Stuart, 2nd Countess of Derwentwater ,   b. 16 Oct 1673, Middlesex, England d. 5 Nov 1726, Île-De-France, France (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3048	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Of Shannon ,   b. 16 May 1622, County Cork, Ireland d. 4 Jan 1680 (Age 57 years)
  Children	+ 1. Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria Fitzroy, Lady ,   b. 1650, Derbyshire, England d. 28 Jul 1684, Derbyshire, England (Age 34 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F14275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  King Charles II ( 1660 - 1685 ) 1658 - Death of Oliver Cromwell. He is succeeded by his son Richard Cro m w e ll 1659 - Richard Cromwell is forced to resign. The Rump Parliament is res t o r ed. 1660 - Charles II returns to England from Holland and is restored to th e t h r one. 1662 - Act of Uniformity compels Puritans to accept the doctrines of th e C h u rch of England or leave the church. 1662 - Royal Society for the improvement of science founded 1664 - England seizes the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, changing i t s n a me to New York. 1665 - Outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. 1665 - The Great Plague strikes London and over 60,000 die. 1666 - The Great Fire of London rages for four days and three nights. T w o t h irds of central London is destroyed and 65,000 are left homeless. 1667 - The Earl of Clarendon is replaced by a five-man Cabal. 1667 - Paradise Lost by John Milton published 1667 - A Dutch fleet sails up the River Medway captures the English fla g s h ip The Royal Charles and sinks three other great ships 1670 - Secret Treaty of Dover, by which Charles agrees to declare himse l f a C a tholic and restore Catholicism in England in return for secret s u bsi d ies from Louis XIV of France. 1670 - Hudson Bay Company founded in North America 1671 - Thomas Blood caught stealing the Crown Jewels 1672 - Outbreak of the Third Dutch War. Naval battle of Solebay. 1673 - Test Act keeps Roman Catholics out of political office. 1674 - Death of John Milton 1674 - Peace made with the Dutch 1675 - Royal Observatory founded at Greenwich 1677 - John Bunyan publishes The Pilgrims Progress. 1678 - The Popish Plot is fabricated by Titus Oates. He alleges a Catho l i c p lot to murder the King and restore Catholicism. The Government ove r - r eacts, and many Catholic subjects are persecuted. 1679 - Exclusion Bill attempts to exclude James, Charles’s Catholic bro t h e r, from the succession. 1679 - Habeas Corpus act passed which forbids imprisonment without tria l 1682 - Pennsylvania founded in America by William Penn 1683 - The Rye House Plot a conspiracy to kill Charles and his brother J a m e s and return to parliamentary rule is uncovered. 1685 - Charles is received into the Roman Catholic Church on his deathb e d .

  
  

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• Sources

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