Glorious Revolution
November 5, 1688
William of Orange landed at Torbay in Devon with fifteen thousand Dutch troops and a Protestant wind at his back. James II's army and nobility deserted him. Within weeks the king fled to France, dropping the Great Seal of England into the Thames. The revolution was, for England, almost bloodless.
In context
Also in 1688 (4 other events on record)
- Invitation to William of Orange · Europe · Politics
- Siamese Revolution Expels the French · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Germantown Petition Against Slavery · North America · Religion
- Bunyan Dies · Europe · Religion
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.