Stuart and Interregnum England
James I (1603-1625) King of England and Scotland The Divine Right of Kings The King James Bible The Ulster Plantation scheme
Charles I (1625-1649) Wars with Spain and France 1629 dismissed Parliament The Divine Right of Kings The two Bishops Wars (1639-1640) Civil War
Oliver Cromwell (1649-1658) Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Lay siege to the town of Drogheda in 1649 War on the Netherlands Colonies in Jamaica and the West Indies
Charles II (1660 - 1685) 1651 an invasion into England from Scotland to defeat Cromwell 1660 the Restoration 'Merry Monarch' Allied England with France War with the Dutch The acquisition of New Amsterdam