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| width="100pt" bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Events and Politics'''
| width="100pt" bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Events and Politics'''
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| width="130pt" style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Gunpowder Plot]]
| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Civil War]]
| style=white-space:nowrap width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Long Parliament]]
| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Commonwealth]]
| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Great Plague]]
| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Great Plague]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Great Fire of London]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Great Fire of London]]
| style=white-space:nowrap width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Popish Plot]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[War of the Grand Alliance]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[War of the Spanish Succession]]
| style=white-space:nowrap width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Exclusion Crisis]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Glorious Revolution]]
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| width="100pt" bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Legislation'''
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| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Test Acts]]
| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Toleration Act]]
| style=white-space:nowrap width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Act of Settlement]]
| width="130pt" bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Act of Union (1707)]]
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| bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''People'''
| bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''People'''
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| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[James I]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[James II]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Charles I]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Anne Hyde]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Charles II]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Anne I]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Samuel Pepys]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[William III]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Oliver Cromwell]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Mary II]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[George Monk]]
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| bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Political Camps'''
| bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Political Camps'''
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| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Cavaliers]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Whigs]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Roundheads]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Tories]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Levellers]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Diggers]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[New Model Army]]
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| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Concepts and Ideas'''
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#58ACFA| '''Concepts and Ideas'''
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| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Primogeniture]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Primogeniture]]
| style=white-space:nowrap bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[The King's Two Bodies]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Catholicism]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Catholicism]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Puritanism]]
| bgcolor=#CEE3F6| [[Puritanism]]

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