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Vor 3 Tagen · Accession of James II. When Charles II died in 1685, Anne's father became King James II of England and VII of Scotland. To the consternation of the English people, James began to give Catholics military and administrative offices, in contravention of the Test Acts that were designed to prevent such appointments.
- 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714
- Anne Hyde
Vor einem Tag · The Glorious Revolution is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew. The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694.
- 1688–1689
Vor 4 Tagen · Mary’s father, James II, had fled England in 1688 during events described as the ‘Glorious Revolution’. James’s Roman Catholic sympathies and belief in the divine right of the Crown, resulted in disgruntled parliamentarians offering the throne to his eldest Protestant daughter, Mary.
Vor einem Tag · King James I of England. When Elizabeth died, her closest male Protestant relative was the King of Scots, James VI, of the House of Stuart, who became King James I of England in a Union of the Crowns, called James I and VI.
Vor 4 Tagen · King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603. This united the kingdoms of England and Scotland in a way, but the union wasn't official. Many people in both countries continued to work toward a more common monarchy, and this was achieved 104 years after James assumed both thrones.
Vor 2 Tagen · In an appendix to his paper Grant Tapsell shows that such a pattern continued after the Restoration; of the 81 bishops who served under Charles II and James II, 66 had definitively served as chaplains (4), 57 of whom had been chaplains to the king or another member of the royal family.
Book: Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Karen O'Brien. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. Reviewer: Dr Rosalind Carr. University of Glasgow. Citation: Dr Rosalind Carr, review of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, (review no. 831)
