Stuart Britain Key Dates: William III and Mary II

January 1689

Convention Parliament meets and votes for the throne to be offered to both William and Mary

February 1689

Declaration of Rights

William and Mary are crowned

March 1689

James II lands in Ireland

Scottish Convention Parliament meets and makes demands in the Claim of Right and Articles of Grievances

May - June 1689

Grand Alliance against France is formed (England, United Provinces, Emperor, Spain, Savoy and German states)

May 1689

Toleration Act passed

Irish ‘Patriot Parliament’ passes anti-English legislation

July 1689

Jacobite Scots win a victory at Killiecrankie

Scottish Convention Parliament abolishes bishops

August 1689

Jacobite Scots are defeated at Dunkeld

November 1689

Convocation meets and demands anti-Dissenter measures

December 1689

Bill of Rights passed

March 1690

William III’s first Parliament meets and grants excise for life and customs for four years

March 1690-May 1695

William’s First Parliament

May 1690

Scotland abolishes the Lords of Articles

June 1690

Full Presbyterian government restored in Scotland

July 1690

William III wins at the Battle of Boyne

August-October 1691

Siege of Limerick

October 1691

Treaty of Limerick ends war in Ireland

1691

Parliament attacks royal control on judges

1692

Tories demand a ‘blue water’ war by MPs

Land Tax approved

1693

Tory Secretary of State Nottingham resigns

1694

Financial revolution lead by the Whig Junto

Bank of England created

Triennial Act passed

Mary II dies

1695

Licensing Act lapses allowing for freedom of press

Tory Land Bank

November 1695-July 1698

William’s Second Parliament

1696

Fenwick Plot to assassinate William

90 Tories refuse to swear loyalty to William

1697

Treaty of Ryswyck

1698

Secret Partition Treaty to prevent France gaining Spanish throne on death of Carlos II

1700

William’s Second Partition Treaty

Anne’s son dies - succession crisis

Carlos II dies and war seems imminent in Europe

1701

Act of Settlement

James II dies and Louis XIV recognises his son as James III

Abjuration Act prevents James Francis Edward from taking the throne

1702

William III dies