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Name: Glorious Revolution

Type: Event

Start: 1688 AD

End: 1689 AD

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Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.

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  • December 1688: On 4 December 1688, William of Orange was at Amesbury.
  • November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.
  • December 1688: William at the same time ordered all English troops to depart from the capital, while his forces entered on 17 December. No local forces were allowed within a twenty-mile radius until the spring of 1690.
  • December 1688: Hindon conquered by netherlands.
  • May 1689: William and Mary accepted the Crown of Scotland.
  • November 1688: Plymouth surrendered to William of Orange, who was leading the invasion of England to overthrow King James II during the Glorious Revolution.
  • November 1688: In 1688, William of Orange took control of Exeter in the Kingdom of Great Britain (Dutch Republic) after the magistrates fled the city on 9 November (Julian calendar).
  • November 1688: Wincanton Skirmish.
  • November 1688: William's forces were at Sherborne.
  • December 1688: Three days later William of Orange had reached Hungerford.
  • December 1688: A Protestant mob stormed Dover Castle, where the Catholic Sir Edward Hales was governor, and seized it. 
  • November 1688: William of Orange came ashore on 5/15 November.
  • February 1689: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.

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