Events and Index

EVENTS 1680-1709

1683 - Rye House Plot to kill King Charles II and heir
1685 - end of reign of Charles II
1685 - James II King of England (= James VII of Scotland)
1685 - Monmouth Rebellion. Battle of Sedgemoor.
1687 - Isaac Newton publishes law of gravitation
1688 - William of Orange invades England
1688 - James II flees the country
1689 - William III and Mary II King & Queen of England and Scotland
1690 - Battle of The Boyne
1692 - MacDonalds massacred at Glencoe
1694 - foundation of the Bank of England
1701 - Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the throne
1702 - Anne Queen of England and Scotland
1705 - Edmund Halley discovers Halley's comet
1707 - Act of Union