Oliver Cromwell Dies
September 3, 1658
The Lord Protector, worn down by kidney stones and malaria, died at Whitehall on the anniversary of his battles of Dunbar and Worcester. A great storm tore through London the same night, which royalists took as the devil fetching his own. His incompetent son Richard could not hold the republic together.
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Also in 1658 (3 other events on record)
- Aurangzeb Takes the Mughal Throne · South Asia · Politics
- Aurangzeb's Brothers Die at Samugarh · South Asia · War
- Swedish Empire Peaks at Treaty of Roskilde · Europe · War
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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