The history of England
Introduction
In the seventeenth century the Hannover dynasty begins with the reign of Jacobo I in 1603, after the death without heirs of Isabel I, which ends the dynasty of the Tudor. During this century, to complicated religious question conflicts with political relations between England, Scotland and Ireland, the confrontation for power between the crown and the bourgeois will be added, which will face the monarchy and parliament. Although the government of the nation was a matter of the monarch.
Developing
Important decisions, such as approving new taxes or declare war, claimed the approval of Parliament. In Parliament, the Commons reproached the increase in taxes to execute political decisions that were not within their control. Carlos I arrived at the throne in 1625, where five years later real intransigence detached from Parliament. His religious policy enacted expanding Anglicanism. Financially continued to increase taxes.
Restrictions on trade were imposed and controlled the assignment of monopolies. The landowners and industrial owners of Parliament endured with anger the intervention of the king in the economic issues that affected them so much. Territorial and religious disputes and King’s requests to increase taxes to increase military power, led to the civil war in 1642, Parliament (bourgeois, great merchants and landowners) against the king (nobility and peasants).
The final result was the execution of the king and the proclamation of the Republic led by Oliver Cromwell. Two years after Cromwell’s death, Parliament approved the restoration of the monarchy in the figure of Carlos II. The reign of the new monarch, 1660-1685, was characterized by being a period of political stability where great changes in education, commerce, administration, health, etc. His successor, Jacobo II, returned to star in another historical moment of great importance.
conclusion
The Civil War was manifested as only a few decades ago in England, but this time without bloodshed. The glorious revolution exiled to Jacobo II and brought Guillermo de Orange as a new king, who promised to govern under the Constitution of 1689 and to respect the declaration of rights. It was achieved that the law was above the wishes of the real will, the division of powers, individual freedom and private property. Once political stability was reached, in 1707 England and Scotland joined the name of Great Britain, which during the 18th century lived a great increase in the population, an important economic development and enjoyed a strong naval and military power.
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