The Glorious Revolution

Question 1

Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes

Answer 1

30 September 1685

Question 2

Godden vs Hales upholds royal dispensing power

Answer 2

1686

Question 3

Declaration of Indulgence suspending penal laws in England

Answer 3

1687

Question 4

Birth of Prince of Wales

Answer 4

10th June 1688

Question 5

Trial of the Seven Bishops

Answer 5

29th June 1688, acquitted 30th

Question 6

Letter of Invitation to William

Answer 6

30th June 1688

Question 7

Louis XIV invades the Rhineland, starting the 9 Years War

Answer 7

24th August 1688

Question 8

William’s First Declaration to England

Answer 8

17th September 1688

Question 9

William lands at Torbay

Answer 9

5th November 1688

Question 10

James arrives at Salisbury

Answer 10

19th November 1688

Question 11

Churchill defects to William

Answer 11

23rd November 1688

Question 12

Mary Modena and the Prince of Wales dispatched to France

Answer 12

9th December 1688

Question 13

James’s first attempted flight

Answer 13

11th December 1688

Question 14

James captured in Kent

Answer 14

12th December 1688

Question 15

James returns to London to applauding crowds

Answer 15

16th December 1688

Question 16

William orders James to leave London

Answer 16

18th December 1688

Question 17

James flees Rochester to France

Answer 17

23rd December 1688

Question 18

Address from Commons and Peers requests the summoning of a Convention and for William to undertake government of England

Answer 18

25th December 1688

Question 19

William accepts the Address from Common and Peers to call a Convention and to take charge of the government

Answer 19

28th December 1688

Question 20

Meeting of Scottish notables asked William to summon a Convention

Answer 20

January 1689

Question 21

Convention meets for the first day with 319 Whigs vs 232 Tories

Answer 21

22 January 1689

Question 22

Commons resolves that James has abdicated the throne

Answer 22

28th January 1689

Question 23

Lords Spiritual and Temporal resolve that William and Mary to be made King and Queen of England

Answer 23

6th February 1689

Question 24

Convention approves Declaration of Rights

Answer 24

12th February 1689

Question 25

William and Mary offered and accept the throne

Answer 25

13th February 1689

Question 26

Scotland - Reading of letters from rivals to the Crown

Answer 26

16th March 1689

Question 27

James arrives in Ireland

Answer 27

22nd March 1689

Question 28

Dundee declared a rebel

Answer 28

30th March 1689

Question 29

Dundee raises standard on Dundee Law

Answer 29

Early April 1689

Question 30

Scotland - resolved that due to acts 'contrary to the law' James had forfeited his right to the crown

Answer 30

4th April 1689

Question 31

Scottish Claim of Right, condemned prelacy and argued that James had altered Scotland from a legal monarchy to a despotic power

Answer 31

11th April 1689

Question 32

Coronation of William and Mary in England

Answer 32

11th April 1689

Question 33

Scottish Article of Grievances restates ecclesiastical and constitutional ideals of Revolution calling for repeal of 1669 Act of Supremacy

Answer 33

13th April 1689

Question 34

England declares war on France

Answer 34

7th May 1689

Question 35

William and Mary accept crowns of Scotland

Answer 35

11th May 1689

Question 36

William approves Toleration Act in England

Answer 36

24th May 1689

Question 37

Edinburgh Castle surrenders

Answer 37

17th June 1689

Question 38

Incapacity Act passed but William refuses to grant royal assent

Answer 38

2nd July 1689

Question 39

Battle of Killiecrankie, Jacobite victory but Dundee killed

Answer 39

27th July 1689

Question 40

Scottish House adjourned without any grant of supply

Answer 40

2nd August 1689

Question 41

After defeat of Dunkeld, effective end to organised Jacobite resistance in Scotland

Answer 41

21st August 1689

Question 42

William approves English Bill of Rights

Answer 42

16th December 1689

Question 43

William dissolves English Convention Parliament

Answer 43

6th February 1689

Question 44

Scottish House reassembled

Answer 44

15th April 1690

Question 45

Act abolishing royal supremacy over Church established

Answer 45

25th April 1690

Question 46

Committee of Articles abolished

Answer 46

9th May 1690

Question 47

Presbyterian government on Church model of 1592 confirmed

Answer 47

7th June 1690

Question 48

Meeting of General Assembly

Answer 48

16th October 1690

Question 49

Treaty of Limerick

Answer 49

3rd October 1691