The Glorious Revolution in Scotland refers to the Scottish element of the 1688 Glorious Revolution, in which James VII was replaced by his daughter Mary...
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The Glorious Revolution was the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II, and her Dutch husband, William...
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Covenanters (redirect from National Covenant of the Church of Scotland)
of plots and armed rebellions. After the 1688 Glorious Revolution in Scotland, the Church of Scotland was re-established as a wholly Presbyterian structure...
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in political and legislative affairs in Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, the Scottish...
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Colbert, Oklahoma (category Towns in Bryan County, Oklahoma)
from France born of Scottish blood. His parents fled during the Glorious Revolution in Scotland; hence, he was born in exile in Blainville-sur-Orne,...
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Battle of Killiecrankie (category 1689 in Scotland)
went into exile in December 1688 after being deposed by the Glorious Revolution in Scotland. In March 1689, he began the Williamite War in Ireland, with...
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The Killing Time (category Glorious Revolution)
Glorious Revolution of 1688, was subsequently called The Killing Time by Robert Wodrow in his The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland...
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James II of England (redirect from James VII of Scotland)
of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The...
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Battle of the Boyne (category 1690 in Ireland)
by military means and probably assured the triumph of the Glorious Revolution. In Scotland, news of this defeat temporarily silenced the Highlanders supporting...
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Robert Duncanson (Scots Army officer) (category Massacres in Scotland)
Glorious Revolution in Scotland. During the Jacobite rising of 1689, he commanded the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot, the primary unit involved in...
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Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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Glorious Revolution in Scotland, Forbes was a prominent supporter of the new regime and the Ferintosh distillery was destroyed by the Jacobites. In 1690...
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Argyll's Rising in 1685. This made them an obvious target when the Duke of Argyll returned to power after the 1688 Glorious Revolution in Scotland. During the...
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confidence in the rule of law, which followed establishment of the prototype of constitutional monarchy in Britain in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and...
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become King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of his elder brother Charles II on 6 February 1685. Glorious Revolution (1688–1689) –James II...
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the Glorious Revolution, the British Empire was a constitutional monarchy with sovereignty in the King-in-Parliament. Aristocrats inherited seats in the...
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Declaration of Indulgence (1687) (category 17th century in Scotland)
of religion in Great Britain and Ireland, it was cut short by the Glorious Revolution. The Declaration granted broad religious freedom in England by suspending...
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Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough (category People of the Glorious Revolution)
Army officer, Whig politician and peer best known for his role in the Glorious Revolution. Lumley was the son of John Lumley and Mary Compton, and the grandson...
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population List of cathedrals in Scotland List of oldest buildings in Scotland "Scottish Cities | Scotland.org". Scotland. Retrieved 2023-10-29. "Royal...
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Marion Veitch (category 18th-century Scottish memoirists)
was a Scottish Presbyterian memoirist who at times was exiled by her family's religion before the Glorious Revolution. Marion Fairlie was born in Edinburgh...
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Jacobitism (redirect from Jacobite War in Scotland)
throne. When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne...
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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt...
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Scots Army (redirect from Scottish Army)
Military history of Scotland Warfare in early modern Scotland K. A. J. McLay, "The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution 1660–1702", in E. M. Spiers, J...
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In Scotland, the Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes and economic expansion between the mid-eighteenth century and...
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The languages of Scotland belong predominantly to the Germanic and Celtic language families. The main language now spoken in Scotland is English, while...
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the re-establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland following the Glorious Revolution, it recognises the archbishop of Canterbury of the Church of England...
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Declaration of Right, 1689 (category Glorious Revolution)
document produced by the English Parliament, following the 1688 Glorious Revolution. It sets out the wrongs committed by the exiled James II, the rights...
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Early modern Britain (redirect from Britain in the early modern period)
Reformation and Scottish Reformation, the English Civil War, the Restoration of Charles II, the Glorious Revolution, the Treaty of Union, the Scottish Enlightenment...
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Convention of Estates (1689) (redirect from Convention of Estates of Scotland (1689))
settlement of the Scottish throne, following the deposition of James VII in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The Convention of the Estates of Scotland was a sister-institution...
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Timeline of British history (1600–1699) (category 17th century in Great Britain)
Tea arrives in Britain 1666 England 1688 England – The Glorious Revolution replaces James II with William III 1689 England and Scotland – The Bill of...
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