1649 65438+1October 30th, just before dawn, people braved the cold and flocked to the British Palace Square from all directions to watch the king's execution. A tall guillotine was placed in the middle of the square. In the afternoon 1, the church bell rang, the side door of the palace slowly opened, and two mighty soldiers were holding a disheveled and depressed man coming. ""kill him! The angry people shouted. The Chief Justice solemnly announced loudly: "Charlie is a tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy, and he is sentenced to death and executed!" " As soon as the voice fell, I saw the executioner's sword fall, and a head that had worn a crown for many years immediately rolled off the guillotine. People cheered and hugged each other excitedly to celebrate the victory of the British bourgeois revolution.

Before the revolution, Britain was under feudal autocracy. 1625, Charles I succeeded to the throne. He is very cruel. He said, "Only the king authorized by God can decide important matters", "Whoever opposes me, I will arrest him!" At that time, British capitalist industry and commerce had made great progress, and the emerging bourgeoisie was gradually growing. They demanded that everyone be equal and restricted the rights of the king. But Charles I ignored them at all. 1629, the parliament representing the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie was dissolved. Since then, Britain has implemented 1 1 year without parliamentary rule, and everything is up to the king.

Charles, I did everything he wanted. He lived in luxury and the treasury was empty, so he levied endless exorbitant taxes on the people, who complained bitterly. He also forced Puritans to convert to the state religion, and arrested and killed unbelievers. 1938+0637, three Puritans, including Dr. Masterwick, were put on wooden shackles and their ears were cut off. Finally, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and put in prison. In the absence of parliamentary rule, 65,000 Puritans fled abroad. Charlie's atrocities aroused people's resistance. 1938+0639, the Scottish people held an armed uprising. In order to raise military expenses, Charlie made an exception and issued an imperial decree to reconvene the parliament. "I'm against charging more taxes as a military expenditure! People have nothing now. They can't add any more! " Hampton, the newly elected congressman, spoke first. "I'm against it! Now, people's grievances are boiling. Not only can taxes not be increased, but the taxes previously levied by the king should also be abolished! " Pim, the leader of the last parliament, was impassioned. "Yes!" "Great!" The audience agreed. Parliamentarians unanimously decided to veto the imperial edict of the king to levy military expenses, and arrested the Earl of Stratford and the Archbishop of Merit, the ministers who helped the king suppress the people. Charlie didn't expect the result of the parliament to be like this. He was so angry and annoyed that he had to send people out of the city to dispatch troops, intending to dissolve the parliament by force and save Stratford. After the news came out, London was boiling. 200,000 people surrounded the palace. "Execute Stratford!" "Rush into the palace!" Slogans come and go. Charlie's legs went limp with fear. He saw thousands of people waving knives, swords and clubs outside the window and had to sign Stratford's death penalty book.

1642,65438+10.5, Charlie led his guards into parliament and arrested five radical members, including Pim and Hampton, but the people of London had covered them up, so Charlie had to leave parliament in despair. Six days later, Charlie secretly left London with his cronies and came to York, a city with powerful feudal forces. Recruit soldiers to prepare for the civil war. Parliament also decided to set up a revolutionary army to fight back. On August 22nd of this year, Charles I raised the royal flag of England in Notting Ang and declared "a crusade against Parliament". The king's army and the parliament's army fought fiercely.

The parliamentary army, led by oliver cromwell, who was brave and good at fighting, won many battles and killed Wang Jun, who fled in fear. People call Cromwell's army "cavalry army". 1645 On the morning of June, it was foggy. In Nasibi, central England, the Armageddon between the parliamentary army and the king's army began. Cromwell's soldiers were divided into three ways, with the potential of thunder.

The following summer, the Parliament of England "bought" the king from Scotland for 400,000 pounds and imprisoned him in Humby Castle. Later, Charlie escaped from prison and rallied royalists to launch the second civil war, but he was quickly defeated and did not escape the fate of being a prisoner. Soon, he was pushed to the guillotine in the people's reviles.

1649 in March, the parliament announced the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Republic of China, and the feudal dynasty came to an end. Since then, after many restoration struggles, Britain established a constitutional monarchy of bourgeois dictatorship in 1689. To this day, it still retains the king (or queen), but it is only a ceremonial head of state.