<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cromwell" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richard Cromwell">Richard Cromwell</a> resigns as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Protector" id="mwRQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lord Protector">Lord Protector</a> of England following the restoration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Parliament" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Long Parliament">Long Parliament</a>, beginning a second brief period of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republicanism">republican</a> government called the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth of England</a>.