This Act of 1660 ensured that no-one - aside from some very specific exceptions (like the people who had been involved in the trial and execution of Charles I) - would be punished by the Restoration government for their behaviour during the civil wars.
Act of Indemnity and Oblivion
Fact of the Day
David I of Scotland gave tax rebates to subjects with good table manners.
Quote of the Day
"Foul as it is, hell itself is made more foul by the presence of John.
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~ Matthew Paris (13th century chronicler) on King John
On This Day
585 BCE The first recorded predicted solar eclipse (by Thales of Miletus) stopped a battle between the Lydians and the Medes, who agreed to a truce.
1533 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declared Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn valid.
1644 Up to 1,600 civilians and supporters of parliament were killed by Royalist forces during and after fighting at Bolton. It became known as the Bolton Massacre and a staple of Parliamentarian propaganda.
1849 Author Anne Brontë died of tuberculosis, aged 29.
1937 Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the concept of the inferiority complex, died of heart failure while on a visit to Aberdeen.
1937 Conservative politician and famous appeaser of Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, became prime minister.
1945 American-born Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) was shot in the buttocks and captured. He was tried in Britain for treason (despite being an American) and hanged.
