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1688 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Year 1688 (MDCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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and the date of the Presentation Ceremony in the Banqueting House at which William and Mary of Orange were offered and accepted the English throne, and thereby became King William III and Queen Mary II of England, was Wednesday, February 13, 1688 O. S., and Wednesday, February 23, 1689 N. S.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William...
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The last disaster took place in June of 1688. On that date, James's wife bore a son, In the summer of 1688, a new war was just breaking out on the continent. When Louis marched into the Rhineland [Palatinate] rather than on the Netherlands, William had both the opportunity and the motive to sail to England,
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William landed at Torbay in Devonshire with an army. James's forces, under John Churchill (later duke of Marlborough), deserted him, and James fled to France (Dec., 1688). There was some debate in England on how to transfer power;
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Year 1688 (MDCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). Gregorian calendar 1688 MDCLXXXVIII Ab urbe condita 2441 Armenian calendar 1137 ԹՎ...
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* November - Hearing that [[William III of Orange|William]] has landed in England, Louis XIV declares war on [[Holland]]. Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack [[Holland]] but instead strikes at the heart of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] with about 100,000 soldiers.
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(dochter van Jacobus, maar anglicaans) wordt koning en koningin van Engeland. Geboren: 18 Januari - Leentje van den Houten. See: Wikipedia. Events: A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the "Immortal Seven", invite...
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