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  2. Glorious Revolution in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    James VII & II c. 1685 as Army Commander. The Glorious Revolution in Scotland has been poorly understood because...no full-scale treatment...exists comparable to those we possess for England and we have no scholarly analysis of the Scottish constitutional settlement of 1689 (as encapsulated in the Claim of Right and the Articles of Grievances) on a par with...the English Declaration of Rights.

  3. Glorious Revolution - Wikipedia

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    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 , a nephew of James who thereby had an interest to the throne irrespective of his marriage to Mary, his first cousin.

  4. 1688 in England - Wikipedia

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    Glorious Revolution: Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating his landing in Torbay. March – William Dampier makes first recorded landing on Christmas Island. 1 March – great fire devastates Bungay. 4 May – Declaration of Indulgence (reissued on 25 April) ordered to be read aloud in all churches on two consecutive ...

  5. 1689 English general election - Wikipedia

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    The 1689 English general election, held in January 1689, elected the Convention Parliament, which was summoned in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution.. 513 Members of Parliament were returned, across 53 counties and 217 boroughs in England and Wales, most returning two members.

  6. Jacobite rising of 1689 - Wikipedia

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    The Jacobite rising of 1689 was a conflict fought primarily in the Scottish Highlands, whose objective was to put James VII back on the throne, following his deposition by the November 1688 Glorious Revolution. Named after "Jacobus", the Latin for James, his supporters were known as 'Jacobites' and the associated political movement as Jacobitism.

  7. Williamite War in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The war began in March 1689 when James II and VII landed in Ireland seeking to reverse the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, which had replaced him with his nephew William III and daughter Mary II. The conflict was part of the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War between Louis XIV of France and the Grand Alliance , a coalition led by William as ...

  8. Convention Parliament (1689) - Wikipedia

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    Immediately following the Glorious Revolution, with King James II of England in flight and Prince William III of Orange nearing London, the Earl of Rochester summoned the Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual to assemble, and they were joined by the privy councillors on 12 December 1688 to form a provisional government for England. James II ...

  9. Convention Parliament (England) - Wikipedia

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    The Convention Parliament was a parliament in English history which, owing to an abeyance of the Crown, assembled without formal summons by the Sovereign. [1] Sir William Blackstone applied the term to only two English Parliaments, those of 1660 and 1689, [2] but some sources have also applied the name to the parliament of 1399.