Restoration (1660) May it proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649. it was as if the last nineteen years had never happened". Charles returned from exile, leaving The Hague on 23 May and landing at Dover on 25 May. He entered London on 29 May, his birthday. To celebrate "his Majesty's Return to his Parliament", 29 May was made a public holiday, popularly known as Oak Apple Day. He was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661. "The commonwealth parliamentary union was, after 1660, treated as null and
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