Timeline Tuesday 19 August 1659

Events on Tuesday 19 August 1659 1

• 1659 Booth's Uprising crushed at Winnington Bridge Last royalist rising before the Restoration fails Sir George Booth's royalist rebellion in Cheshire was defeated by Parliamentary forces under John Lambert at the Battle of Winnington Bridge on 19 August 1659. The rising's failure temporarily strengthened the army's hold over England just months before the monarchy was restored.