The Glorious Revolution

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The Glorious Revolution was a

coup d’état

in which the Roman Catholic King James II of England (VII of Scotland) was deposed and replaced at Parliament’s instigation by his nephew and son-in-law, William of Orange, and his daughter Mary Stuart. The event is sometimes referred to as the “Bloodless Revolution”, even though it was a contributory cause of two European wars and the direct cause of two unsuccessful “Jacobite” rebellions which attempted to restore James’s heirs to the throne. In the long view, James II was the victim of the religious struggle in Britain between Catholicism and Protestantism which had persisted since the Reformation. The Glorious Revolution was also the culmination of the struggle from 1603 onwards between the absolutist Stuart dynasty,…

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Citation: Seager, Nicholas. "The Glorious Revolution". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 August 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=477, accessed 19 March 2024.]

477 The Glorious Revolution 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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