Stuart Restoration

The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe. The preceding period of the Protectorate and the civil wars came to be known as the Interregnum (1649–1660).

Stuart Restoration

1660–1714

King Charles II in coronation robes by John Michael Wright

Monarch(s)

Leader(s)

Thomas Parker

← Preceded by
Interregnum

Followed by →
Georgian era

Prehistoric Britain	until c. 43 AD
British Iron Age	c. 800 BC
Roman Britain	c. 43–410
Sub-Roman Britain	c. 400s – late 500s
Anglo-Saxon	c. 500–1066
Norman	1066–1154
Plantagenet	1154–1485
Tudor	1485–1603
Elizabethan	1558–1603
Stuart	1603–1714
Jacobean	1603–1625
Caroline	1625–1649
(Interregnum)	1649–1660
Restoration	1660–1714
Georgian era	1714–1837
Regency era	1811–1820
Victorian era	1837–1901
Edwardian era	1901–1914
First World War	1914–1918
Interwar Britain	1919–1939
Second World War	1939–1945
Postwar Britain (political)	1945–1979
Postwar Britain (social)	1945–1979

See also

The term Restoration is also used to describe the period of several years after, in which a new political settlement was established.[1] It is very often used to cover the whole reign of King Charles II (1660–1685) and often the brief reign of his younger brother King James II (1685–1688).[2] In certain contexts it may be used to cover the whole period of the later Stuart monarchs as far as the death of Queen Anne and the accession of the Hanoverian King George I in 1714.[3] For example, Restoration comedy typically encompasses works written as late as 1710.

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