He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.

* 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia.

Abhorrers, the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed petitions urging King Charles II of England to assemble Parliament.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

The Liberal Party grew out of the Whigs, which had its origins as an aristocratic faction in the reign of Charles II.

On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph ( 1811 – 1832 ) was created king of Rome ( 1811 – 1814 ) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

#* Napoléon ( II ) François Joseph Charles Bonaparte ( 1811 – 1832 ) Napoléon II, son of Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty

#* Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ), called Plon-Plon married Princess Marie Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

On the death of Charles II his brother, a Roman Catholic, became James II.

Charles II of England was concerned by the unregulated copying of books and passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662 by Act of Parliament, which established a register of licensed books and required a copy to be deposited with the Stationers ' Company, essentially continuing the licensing of material that had long been in effect.

* Charles V of Naples ( 1661 – 1700 ), better known as Charles II of Spain

** Charles II ( 1285 – 1309 )

** Charles II ( 1349 – 1387 )

** Charles II ( 1385 – 1386 )

** Charles V ( 1364 – 1380 )

* Charles V ( 1364 – 1380 )

The Dauphin became King Charles V of France in 1364, with Taillevent as his chief cook.

** Charles V the Wise, 1364 – 1380

Jadwiga's father Louis had, in 1364 in Kraków, during festivities known as the Days of Kraków, also made an arrangement with his former father-in-law Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV to inter-marry their future children:

* Charles V ( 1338 – 1380 ), called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois.

* January 25 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1364 )

The childless dukes Louis and Otto had already promised Charles IV the succession in Brandenburg in 1364 as revenge for a conflict with their brother Stephen II over the Bavarian succession after the death of their nephew Meinhard, the son of Louis V. Louis the Roman died in Berlin in 1365.

** Charles, Duke of Brittany ( d. 1364 )

* Charles, Duke of Brittany ( 1319 – 1364 ), Blessed Charles of Blois

In January 1364 Charles met Edward, the Black Prince at Agen in order to negotiate the passage of his troops through the English-held duchy of Aquitaine, to which the Prince agreed perhaps because of his friendship with Charles's new military adviser Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch, who had been betrothed to Charles sister and was to lead his army to Normandy.

Charles was allowed to keep his conquests of 1364, except for the citadel of Meulan, which was to be razed to the ground.

Charles V ( 21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380 ), called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380 and a member of the House of Valois.

Charles was crowned King of France in 1364 at the cathedral at Reims, France.

Du Guesclin also defeated Charles II of Navarre at the Battle of Cocherel in 1364 and eliminated the noble's threat to Paris.

Charles ' kingship placed great emphasis on both royal ceremony and scientific political theory, and to contemporaries and posterity his lifestyle at once embodied the reflective life advised by Aristotle and the model of French kingship derived from St Louis, Charlemagne, and Clovis which he had illustrated in his Coronation Book of 1364, now in the British Library.

He died in captivity in 1364 and Charles V succeeded him as king of France.

The city was under the domain of Silesian Piasts until Emperor Charles IV in 1364 purchased Lower Lusatia and incorporated it into the Lands of the Bohemian Crown.

He in turn gave the Duchy in appanage to his son Charles, who became king as Charles V in 1364.

Joanna of Penthièvre or Joanna the Lame ( in French Jeanne de Penthièvre, Jeanne la Boiteuse ) ( 1319 – 10 September 1384 ) was reigning Duchess of Brittany ( suo jure ) together with her husband Charles of Blois between 1341 and 1364.

Charles de Blois and Bertrand du Guesclin came to the rescue of the besieged city but were decisively defeated at the Battle of Auray on 29 September 1364.

Charles of Blois ( Blois, 1319 – 29 September 1364 ), claimed the title Duke of Brittany, from 1341 to his death.