The Restoration

Cards (23)

  • when did Charles II ride into London having been officially returned to the throne?

    May 1660
  • when did London theatres reopen?
    1660
  • when was the Indemnity and Oblivion Act?

    August 1660
  • when was the cavalier parliament formed; the Clarendon Ministry take power?
    1661
  • when was the licensing of the Press Act that limited the freedom to punish anything that challenges the Church of England?
    1662
  • when did Charles II marry Catherine of Braganza and receive the Indian port of Bombay as part of her dowry?
    April 1662
  • when was the First Navigation Act?
    July 1662
  • when was The Great Plague?
    1665
  • when was the Second Anglo-Dutch War?
    1665-67
  • when was The Great Fire of London?
    1666
  • when was the Dutch raid on the Medway?
    1667
  • when did The Cabal Ministry rise to power?

    After the downfall of Clarendon in 1668
  • when was The Secret Treaty of Dover?
    1670
  • when was The Royal African Company given the right to trade enslaved people?
    1672
  • when was The Third Anglo-Dutch War?
    1672-75
  • when was The Test Act that banned Catholics from holding public office?
    1673
  • when was the end of the Cabal and the rise of Lord Danby?
    1674
  • when was the Popish Plot?
    1678
  • when was Lord Danby forced resign?
    1679
  • when was the Exclusion Bill Parliament?
    1680
  • when was the Rye House Plot?
    1683
  • when did Charles II die?
    1685
  • when did the Duke of York become James II?

    After Charles II's death in 1685