Enlightenment · North America · Politics

1686

Dominion of New England

April 7, 1686

James II consolidated Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire into a single Dominion of New England under Governor Sir Edmund Andros, abolishing elected legislatures. The colonists, suddenly confronted with Stuart absolutism in their own forests, began plotting quietly. The Glorious Revolution would rescue them, and the memory of Andros's autocracy deepened colonial suspicion of royal overreach.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1683: Pennsylvania Treaty at Shackamaxon
After: 1688: Germantown Petition Against Slavery

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1685: Huguenots Flee to Brandenburg
After: June 30, 1688: Invitation to William of Orange

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Dominion of New England