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1688 (MDCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1688th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 688th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of ...
18 January – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1765) 22 May – Alexander Pope, poet (died 1744) 10 June – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (died 1766)
The Glorious Revolution [a], also known as The Revolution of 1688, was the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II , and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange , who was also James's nephew and had an interest in the throne in his own right.
1688 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623) 1697 – Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, English general and politician (b. 1645) 1754 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (b. 1684) 1782 – Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer (b. 1697)
1688–1689: The Glorious Revolution starts with the Dutch Republic invading England, England becomes a constitutional monarchy. 1688–1691: The War of the Two Kings in Ireland. 1688–1697: The Grand Alliance sought to stop French expansion during the Nine Years War. 1689: William and Mary ascend to the throne over England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1688 - The first recorded formal protest against slavery, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery. 1688–97 – King William's War, the North American theater of the Nine Years' War. 1688 – The Glorious Revolution occurs; King James II flees to France and is replaced by William and Mary of Orange.
1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) 1689 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (d. 1755) 1701 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (d. 1785) 1734 – Caspar Friedrich Wolff, German physiologist and embryologist (d. 1794) [21]
1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688. 1808 – The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months ...