Examples of Charles II in the following topics:
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- In March 1664, Charles II of England resolved to seize New Netherland .
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- The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
- A group of eight men were rewarded for their faithful support of Charles II following the 1660 restoration of the monarchy of Britain with the charter to a colony in the new world .
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- Over a decade after Charles I's 1649 execution and Charles II's 1651 escape to mainland Europe, the Stuarts were restored to the English throne by Royalists in the aftermath of the slow fall of the Protectorate.
- On April 4, 1660, Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, in which he made several promises in relation to the reclamation of the crown of England.
- On May 8, it proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I on January 30, 1649.
- Charles II of England by
Peter Lely, 1675, Collection of Euston Hall, Suffolk
- King Charles II, the first monarch to rule after the English Restoration.
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- In the late 1690s, the declining health of childless King Charles II of Spain deepened the ongoing dispute over his succession.
- The signatories, however, omitted to consult Charles II, who was passionately opposed to the dismemberment of his empire.
- On his deathbed in 1700, Charles II unexpectedly offered the entire empire to the Dauphin's second son Philip, Duke of Anjou, provided it remained undivided.
- Louis eventually decided to accept Charles II's will and Philip, Duke of Anjou, became Philip V, King of Spain.
- The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht recognized Louis XIV's grandson Philip, Duke of Anjou, as King of Spain (as Philip V), thus confirming the succession stipulated in the will of the Charles II.
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- However, Spain as a unified state came into being de
jure only after the death of Charles II in 1700, the last ruler of
Spain of the Habsburg dynasty.
- Philip
II became king on Charles I's abdication in 1556.
- Philip
II died in 1598, and was succeeded by his son Philip III.
- Charles
II (1665–1700), the last of the Habsburgs in Spain, was three years old when
his father Philip IV died in 1665.
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Habsburg dynasty became extinct in Spain with Charles II's death in 1700 and
the War of the Spanish Succession ensued in which the other European powers
tried to assume control of the Spanish monarchy.
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- Charles made peace with France and Spain, effectively ending England's involvement in the Thirty Years' War.
- Charles finally bowed to pressure and summoned another English Parliament in November 1640.
- Charles and his supporters continued to resent Parliament's demands, while Parliamentarians continued to suspect Charles of wanting to impose episcopalianism and unfettered royal rule by military force.
- The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II (Charles I's son) and supporters of the Rump Parliament.
- The overall outcome of the war was threefold: the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of Charles II, and the replacement of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–53) and then the Protectorate (1653–59) under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule.
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- James reluctantly summoned parliament as the only means to raise the funds necessary to assist his daughter Elizabeth and Frederick, who had been ousted from Prague by Emperor Ferdinand II in 1620.
- The provocation was too much for Charles, who dissolved Parliament.
- The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) wars pitted the supporters of Charles against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament.
- The overall outcome of the war was threefold: the trial and execution of Charles I; the exile of his son, Charles II; and the replacement of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–53) and then the Protectorate (1653–59) under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule.
- Charles I of England, portrait from the studio of Anthony van Dyck, 1636.
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- The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 was an edict issued by Charles VI to ensure that the Habsburg hereditary possessions could be inherited by a daughter, but it was contested after Charles' death in 1740, which resulted in the War of Austrian Succession.
- In 1700, the senior (oldest, first-in-line) branch of the House of Habsburg became extinct with the death of Charles II of Spain.
- Charles succeeded Joseph, according to the Pact, and Maria Josepha became his heir presumptive.
- After Charles VI died, Prussia and Bavaria contested the claims of Maria Theresa on his Austrian lands.
- Charles was, indeed, ultimately succeeded by his elder daughter Maria Theresa (born 1717).
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- In 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon, grandfather of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, died.
- In 1519, already reigning in Spain as Charles I, he took up the imperial title as Charles V.
- At this time, many local dukes saw it as a chance to oppose the hegemony of Emperor Charles V.
- Charles V continued to battle the French and the Protestant princes in Germany for much of his reign.
- Maximilian was succeeded in 1576 by Rudolf II, a man who preferred classical Greek philosophy to Christianity and lived an isolated existence in Bohemia.
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- Pope Gregory III, whose realm was being menaced by the Lombards, offered Charles the Roman consulship in exchange for becoming the defender of the Holy See, but Charles declined.
- The latter became the first of the Carolingians, the family of Charles Martel, to become king.
- Pepin also intervened in favor of the papacy of Stephen II against the Lombards in Italy.
- A painting of the Battle of Tours by Charles de Steuben, 1834–1837.
- Explain the significance of Charles Martel's victory at the Battle of Tours