1649 CE
Charles I Execution Platform
About this moment
Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, was publicly executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War, leading to Charles's capture and his trial. On 27 January 1649 the parliamentarian High Court of Justice had declared Charles guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people" and sentenced him to death by beheading.
People
- Henry I of England · 1068 CE – 1135 CE
- Robert I of Scotland · 1274 CE – 1329 CE
- Charles V · 1500 CE – 1558 CE