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William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
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 ...
William III & II 1650–1702 King of England and Scotland r. 1689–1702: Mary II 1662–1694 Queen of England and Scotland r. 1689–1694: Anne 1665–1714 Queen of England and Scotland, then Great Britain r. 1702–1714: George II 1683–1760 King of Great Britain r. 1727–1760: Frederick 1707–1751 Prince of Wales: George III 1738–1820
1689–1694: King William III [a] 1650–1702 r. 1689–1702: James Stuart 1663–1667 Duke of Cambridge: Queen Anne 1665–1714 r. 1702–1714: Prince George 1653–1708 of Denmark: Charles Stuart 1666–1667 Duke of Kendal: Edgar Stuart 1667–1671 Duke of Cambridge: Prince William 1689–1700 Duke of Gloucester: Catherine Stuart 1675–1676 ...
William III (1689–1702) and Mary II (1689–1694) The position of King of Ireland was contested by William III and James II between 1689 and 1691, after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689 made William King of Ireland, and this was reinforced by his victory at the Battle of the Boyne (part of the ...
The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne IPA: [ˈkah n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̠ʲə]) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland [b] in 1689.
9 January – Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan marries Honora Burke, daughter of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, in Portumna Abbey.; 13 February – the Protestant William, Prince of Orange, and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England, Ireland and Scotland in London following the deposition of the Catholic James II at the end of 1688 [1] but are not yet recognised in Ireland or ...
Minister Smiley moved his family to County Donegal, Ireland about 1670 as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Thomas Smiley (the son) married his wife Ann (1663-1731) in about 1679, and they had four children; John, Rose, William, and Francis. Rose remained in Ireland, while the three sons set sail for America in the early 1700s.