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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 , who was also James's nephew, so they were first cousins, thus meaning William III of Orange had an interest in the throne in his own ...
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.
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 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.
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 ...
In late 1688, the Glorious Revolution deposed the Catholic James and replaced him with the Protestant William III and Mary II. [5] The rule of Andros was highly unpopular, especially in New England, [6] and his opponents in Massachusetts used the change of royal power for their political benefit by organizing an uprising.
The Nine Years' War [c] was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. [d] Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial possessions in the Americas, India, and West Africa.
The English Revolution is a term that has been used to describe two separate events in English history. Prior to the 20th century, it was generally applied to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, when James II was deposed and a constitutional monarchy established under William III and Mary II. [1]