THE COMMONWEALTH

1649-1660 OLIVER CROMWELL & RICHARD CROMWELL

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FACTS:

1650 - Term 'Quaker' first used for Society of Friends
Coffee brought to England about this time

1651-1652 - The second English Civil War
at the Battle of Worcester

1658 - Death of Oliver Cromwell

Cromwell bans christmas for 16 years