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Há 4 dias · Timeline of events: 1686 to 1688. Dutch intervention. Prelude: 1685 to June 1688. Invitation to William. Dutch preparations: July to September 1688. Decision to invade. English defensive strategy. Invasion. Embarkation of the army and the Declaration of The Hague. Crossing and landing. The collapse of James's rule. The revolutionary settlement.
Há 4 dias · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [a] (1 July 1646 [ O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics and statistics.
Há 3 dias · In May 1686, James sought to obtain a ruling from the English common-law courts that showed he had the power to dispense with Acts of Parliament. He dismissed judges who disagreed with him on this matter, as well as the Solicitor General, Heneage Finch. [103]
9 de mai. de 2024 · James II (born October 14, 1633, London, England—died September 5/6 [September 16/17, New Style], 1701, Saint-Germain, France) was the king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688, and the last Stuart monarch in the direct male line. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) and replaced by William III and ...
- James II succeeded his brother, Charles II, as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1685 and was deposed by the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
- James II converted to Roman Catholicism before coming to the throne. His placement of Catholic allies in high positions in the court and army, coup...
- James II was the last British Stuart king in the direct line. The Glorious Revolution that overthrew him also permanently established Parliament as...
- James II’s first wife, Anne, was Protestant (though she converted to Catholicism), and their daughters were Mary II (wife of William of Orange and...
22 de mai. de 2024 · Between 1691 and 1694 Swift wrote a number of poems, notably six odes. But his true genius did not find expression until he turned from verse to prose satire and composed, mostly at Moor Park between 1696 and 1699, A Tale of a Tub, one of his major works.
- Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author who is regarded as one of the foremost prose satirists in the history of English literature. He wrote essa...
- Jonathan Swift’s father, Jonathan Swift the elder, was an Englishman who had settled in Ireland after the Stuart Restoration and become steward of...
- Jonathan Swift is best known for Gulliver’s Travels, which is a parody of a travel narrative. Published in 1726, it mocks English customs and the p...
Há 6 dias · America and West Indies: May 1686. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 12 1685-1688 and Addenda 1653-1687. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1899. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
Há 3 dias · Home. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies. America and West Indies: February 1686. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 12 1685-1688 and Addenda 1653-1687. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1899. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.
