3. It was an event in the History of
England and Scotland in 1688
4. James II
He was king of England and
Ireland after his brother Charles II
passed away in 1685.He was
deposed in the glorious
revolution.He was the last Roman
Catholic monarch to reign over
the kingdoms of
Scotland,Ireland,and England.
5. James was known for his belief in the
divine right of kings and his attempts
to create religious liberty for English
Roman Catholics against the wishes
of the English Parliament.
7. James and his wife Anne Hyde had two
daughters,Anne and Mary.
In 1677,James consented to his daughter
Mary to marry with the protestant William
of Orange.
8. James was a catholic while most members
of parliament were protestants.He removed
protestants and replaced them for catholics.
How did the glorious
revolution come about?
9. He also suspend laws that the
Parliament had made because
he believed they were unfair to Catholics.
James tried to introduce his own laws which
were more tolerant for catholics.
10. Protestants became even more fearful when
James´s wife,Mary of Modena,gave birth to
a son James Francis Edward in June 1688.
The heir presumptive was displaced by his
daughter Mary who was a protestant.
11. For all these reasons the king
James II of England was
overthrown
by a union of English parliamentarians with
the dutch Stadtholder,William III of Orange.
William ascended to the English throne as
William III of England jointly with his wife
Mary II of England.
12. The development of the
revolution
On 30th June 1688,a group of seven
protestants nobles invited the prince of
Orange to come to England with his army.
William sought to invade.
James ended up fleeing to France for refuge.
James made one serious attempt to recover
his crown when he landed in Ireland in
13. 1689,but was defeated by William.
James spent his last years in denial.Finally he
died in 1701.
15. He became a strong candidate for the
English throne because his father in
law,James,was excluded of his catholicism.
16. William approves the toleration act.
The act allowed freedom of worship to
nonconformists.They were allowed to have
their own places of worship and their own
teachers.
18. It ended the divine Right
of kings in England
It re-established the
supremacy of the
Parliament over the
monarch.
It led to the Bill of Rights
which was a serie of
laws that said that the
king could not levy
taxes,make laws,or
maintain an army without
Parliament´s consent.
A constitutional
monarchy which limited
the power.
19. The glorious revolution and a
Constitutional Monarchy
It established a constitutional monarchy in
Great Britain.It is a form of government in
which monarch acts as head of State but
their powers are defined and limited by law.
Constitutional monarchies employ a
parliamentary system.
20. The glorious revolution and
the American Colonies
The glorious revolution led to rebellion the
American colonies.They can be seen as
precursors to the American Revolution.
