Glorious Revolution

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    Glorious Revolution

  • James issues second Declaration of Indulgence for England

  • Privy Council orders the Church of England to read Declaration of Indulgence during services

  • The Seven Bishops appear before the Privy Council and are commited to the Tower

  • The Trial of the Seven bishops begins

  • Final meeting of Court of High Commision

  • Louis XIV invades the Rhineland, beginning the nine years war

  • Williams's army ready to embark and his expedition is approved by the State of Holland

  • William issues first Declaration

  • James tells Privy Council that he will get rid of the High Commision Court

  • William issues second Declaration

  • James is seized by fishermen on the Isle of Sheppey

  • The Seven Bishops present their petition to James

  • William agrees to assume administration of government and to summon a convention

  • The Lords resolve that William and Mary be made King and Queen

  • The Convention approves the Declaration of Rights; William's wife, Mary, Princess of Orange, arrives in England

  • William and Mary accept the crowns and are proclaimed King William III and Queen Mary II

  • William approves the first statute of his reign, the Parliament Act which transformed the Convention into the Convention Parliament

  • William approves the second statute of his reign

  • William approves the Toleration Act

  • William approves the Englsih Bill of Rights of 1689