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Historical Event(s)
– English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
– Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other “high crimes”.
– King Charles I of England is beheaded.
– The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
– The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
– An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
– The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
– Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell’s English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
– Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
– New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
Who Were Born On ?
– Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
– Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
– William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
– Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
– James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of Great Britain (d. 1685)
– Maharaja Chhatrasal (d. 1731)
– Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
– Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
– Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)