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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

Timeline of Events

1649

9.11.1649

Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.

10.11.1649

Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.

10.19.1649

New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.

1650

9.3.1650

Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces lead by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and lead by David Leslie, Lord Newark.

1653

4.20.1653

Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

1661

1.30.1661

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.