William and Mary Crowned
February 13, 1689
The Convention Parliament offered the crown jointly to William and Mary on condition they accept a Declaration of Rights limiting royal prerogatives. They agreed. Parliamentary supremacy was now a constitutional fact, and England had quietly become a parliamentary monarchy while Europe was still absolute. The Glorious Revolution, nearly bloodless in England, redrew the relationship between sovereign and subject forever.
In context
Also in 1689 (4 other events on record)
- English Bill of Rights · Europe · Politics
- Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government · Europe · Politics
- Treaty of Nerchinsk · East Asia · Politics
- Toleration Act · Europe · Religion
Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1688: Bunyan Dies
- After: July 1, 1690: Battle of the Boyne
Before and after in Politics
Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.