Glorious Revolution
A nearly bloodless coup makes Parliament supreme
Parliament invited the Dutch stadtholder William of Orange, and the Catholic James II fled almost without a fight. The Bill of Rights curbed royal power and established the supremacy of Parliament, the basis of Britain's constitutional monarchy.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 6 years earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 15 years later
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 50)
- Isaac Newton (aged 45)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 34)
- Peter the Great (aged 16)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 3)
- Aurangzeb (aged 70)
- Leopold I (aged 48)
- Matsuo Bashō (aged 44)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 42)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 42)