Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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Was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
Establishment
July 1663: The Royal Charter of 1663 consolidated four settlements into a single entity known as the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Chronology
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Was Royal Charter that united four English settlements together into the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.
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.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
Disestablishment
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
Selected Sources
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
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