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23 de may. de 2018 · Published: May 23, 2018 at 9:28 AM. Over the course of 111 years, Stuart Britain witnessed events including the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the bloody civil wars of 1642-51, and the beheading of King Charles I in 1649.
- Elinor Evans
14 de mar. de 2021 · In 16th century England, most of the population lived in small villages and made their living from farming. However, towns grew larger and more important. During the 16th century trade and industry grew rapidly and England became a more and more commercial country.
In the period between the 1670’s and 1750’s, sweeping changes transformed both the the public social lives and private family lives of the British people. Increased literacy, combined with The Restoration led the British people to an increasingly public life.
Events. 1 May – claimant King Charles II of England signs the Treaty of Breda with the Scottish Covenanters. 10 May – Commonwealth (Adultery) Act (1650) imposes the death penalty for incest, and for adultery, that is defined as sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man other than her husband. Both partners would be ...
Wikimedia Commons. During the late 17th century, Celia Fiennes traveled England by horse sitting sidesaddle. Accompanied by one or two servants, she traveled on and off for nearly two decades ...
In the middle of the seventeenth century a rapidly growing London dominated urban England. Around 375,000 people lived in the City, Westminster, adjoining Middlesex parishes and South-wark in 1650, compared with 120,000 a century earlier [1:2].
11. Daily Life in the Elizabethan Era. Historians studying the Elizabethan Era, the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) that is often considered to be a golden age in English history, have focused mainly on the lives of the era's wealthy nobles. (Nobles were the elite men and women who held social titles.)
