The Glorious Revolution Flashcards
Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes
30 September 1685
Godden vs Hales upholds royal dispensing power
1686
Declaration of Indulgence suspending penal laws in England
1687
Birth of Prince of Wales
10th June 1688
Trial of the Seven Bishops
29th June 1688, acquitted 30th
Letter of Invitation to William
30th June 1688
Louis XIV invades the Rhineland, starting the 9 Years War
24th August 1688
William’s First Declaration to England
17th September 1688
William lands at Torbay
5th November 1688
James arrives at Salisbury
19th November 1688
Churchill defects to William
23rd November 1688
Mary Modena and the Prince of Wales dispatched to France
9th December 1688
James’s first attempted flight
11th December 1688
James captured in Kent
12th December 1688
James returns to London to applauding crowds
16th December 1688
William orders James to leave London
18th December 1688
James flees Rochester to France
23rd December 1688
Address from Commons and Peers requests the summoning of a Convention and for William to undertake government of England
25th December 1688
William accepts the Address from Common and Peers to call a Convention and to take charge of the government
28th December 1688