English Civil War with his army from Scotland. On 4 April 1660, in the Declaration of Breda, Charles II made known the conditions of his acceptance of the Crown of England. Monck organised the Convention Parliament, which met for the first time on 25 April 1660. On 8 May 1660, it declared that King Charles II had reigned as the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I in January 1649. Charles returned from exile on 23 May 1660. On 29 May 1660, the populace in London acclaimed him as king. His coronation took place at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661. These
SMS Monarch joined in the Cattaro Mutiny in early February 1918. Six weeks later she became an accommodation ship for the submarine crews based at nearby Gjenovic. "Monarch" was handed over to Great Britain as war reparations in January 1920 and broken up for scrap in Italy in 1921. Explanatory notes Citations SMS Monarch SMS "Monarch" ("His Majesty's Ship Monarch") was the lead ship of the built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After their commissioning, "Monarch" and the two other "Monarch"-class ships made several training cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1900s. "Monarch" and her sisters formed the