Restoration and Glorious Revolution
What's covered
Key facts
The Bill of Rights made it illegal for a Catholic to become British monarch.
The king restored to the English throne in 1660 was Charles II.
The 1689 Bill of Rights limited the monarch's powers and confirmed Parliament's authority.
Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660.
The Bill of Rights established Parliament's permanent role in lawmaking and set limits on royal power.
The Great Fire of London occurred in 1666.
After 1689 monarchs needed Parliament's consent for taxation and could not maintain a standing army in peacetime.
The Great Fire destroyed much of London in September 1666.
Power changed in 1688 with very little fighting on English soil — hence the label "Glorious".
The Great Fire of London began with an accidental fire in a bakery on Pudding Lane.
Sample questions
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What did the 1689 Bill of Rights do?
- •Abolished the House of Lords for a decade
- •Granted every adult Englishman the right to vote
- ✓Limited the monarch's powers and confirmed Parliament's authority
- •Made Catholicism the official religion of England
What problem did the Plague of 1665 expose in London?
- •An ongoing rebellion against Charles II by surviving Puritans
- ✓Poor sanitation and overcrowding in 17th-century English cities
- •Royal corruption in handing out plague-relief funds to favourites
- •The collapse of trade with the Dutch Republic during peacetime
What was the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
- •A papal decree restoring Catholicism as the official religion of England
- •A peasant uprising that overthrew Parliament and restored royal absolutism
- •A Scottish invasion that briefly placed James II's daughter on the throne
- ✓Parliament invited William of Orange to replace the Catholic king James II
How did the Great Fire of London (1666) start?
- ✓An accidental fire in a bakery on Pudding Lane
- •Catholic conspirators deliberately set fire to a royal palace
- •Cromwell's surviving followers attacked the city with gunpowder
- •Dutch warships bombarded London during the Anglo-Dutch wars
What did the 1689 Bill of Rights establish?
- •A new state Church combining Catholic and Protestant beliefs
- •Catholic emancipation across the whole of England and Wales
- ✓Parliament's permanent role in lawmaking and limits on royal power
- •The right of every subject to vote in parliamentary elections
What disaster struck London in 1665?
- •Earthquake
- •Fire
- •Invasion
- ✓Plague
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