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Introduction to Charles I
Charles I was the only king publicly executed in English history. 16 12 His brother Henry, Prince of Wales, died and became the Crown Prince. /kloc-became the king of Britain in 0/625, and was called Charles I. Because the parliament was dissatisfied with the monopoly of its favorite Duke Buckingham and the failure of the Spanish War, it refused the privilege of levying tariffs on the king, which formed the opposition between the parliament and the king. Charles I therefore dissolved Parliament in June 1626. Congress filed a petition for rights in 1628, and Charles I signed it for parliament to agree to tax. 1629, sent people to arrest radical parliamentarians, and then dissolved the National Assembly. In the following year 1 1, the parliament was not convened again. Until April 1640, parliament was convened to solve the problem of military expenditure in the Scottish war, but it was dissolved again because it refused to restart the war. 165438+ 10, Parliament was convened again, but Parliament still refused to cooperate with Charles I. After Charles I broke with Parliament, Londoners took control of London. Charles I can only flee north to York at1642 65438+1October 10 to rally to protect Wang Li. On August 22nd, the flag was raised in Nottingham and the civil war broke out. /kloc-in the spring of 0/646, the parliamentary army besieged Oxford, the king's army surrendered, and the first civil war ended. Then, with the support of the Scots, the second civil war was launched. 1648, the Scottish army was defeated by the parliamentary army. At the end of the Second Civil War, Charles I was captured. 1649 65438+1On October 27th, Charles I was ordered to be executed. On the 30th, Charles I was beheaded in front of the Whitehall ballroom.