Person1633 – 1701
James II
Also called: James II of England, James VII of Scotland
King of England from 1685 to 1688 who tried to restore Catholicism and rule arbitrarily, and fled to France in the Glorious Revolution
Where they went
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In 1688 the English Parliament drove out James II, who sought to restore Catholicism, and welcomed William III and Mary II as monarchs. With the Bill of Rights of 1689, constitutional monarchy — with Parliament above the king — took root.
People who appear alongside
- William III1650 – 1702
Dutch stadtholder who crossed to England in the Glorious Revolution and from 1689 reigned jointly with his wife Mary II, accepting the Bill of Rights
- John Locke1632 – 1704
English philosopher whose Two Treatises of Government defended natural rights and the right of resistance, justifying the Glorious Revolution; he also systematised empiricism
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution