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The Glorious Revolution [a] 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.
[12] Other scholars argue that the Glorious Revolution was a turning point in history, starting the age of constitutionalism. The format of a declaration enumerating various specific wrongs attributed to a king was followed a century later in the American Declaration of Independence – whose authors were clearly familiar with the 1689 document.
It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death. Macaulay's approach to writing the History was innovative for his period.
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 ...
The Act declared James's flight from England following the Glorious Revolution to be an abdication of the throne. It listed twelve of James's policies by which James designed to "endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom". [21] These were: [22]
The Army, James II and the Glorious Revolution. Manchester University Press. Online review. Childs, John (1987). The British Army of William III 1698–1702. Manchester University Press. Clark, George (1954). "The Character of the Nine Years War, 1688–97". Cambridge Historical Journal 11#2: 168–82. JSTOR 3021075. Clark, George (1970).
On 5 November 1688, [a] William of Orange, the stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, landed in Torbay, Devon at the head of a Williamite army to overthrow the unpopular James II of England. Five week later, on 7 December, William reached Hungerford , where numerous English Williamites came to visit him, including several hundred cavalrymen under ...
He is a prominent scholar of Early Modern British history, [1] and his work has focused on the 17th century, in particular the Glorious Revolution and English foreign policy. His book 1688: The First Modern Revolution has been praised as providing "a new understanding of the origins of the modern, liberal state."