The Glorious Revolution occurred in 1688-1689 in the British Isles and involved English, Welsh, and Scottish society. It was sparked by King James II issuing declarations that suspended penal laws and allowed freedom of religion without the consent of Parliament, violating the increasingly held belief that the monarch's power was limited. A group of Protestant nobles invited the Dutch Prince William of Orange to invade England with an army. William and Mary then took the throne, and in 1689 the English Bill of Rights was passed, establishing that the monarch cannot govern without Parliament's consent, limiting the monarch's power.

1. The Glorious Revolution
(Revolution of 1688/ War of the English
Succession/ Bloodless Revolution)
Participants
English, Welsh and
Scottish society
Location British Isles
Date 1688–1689

2.  English civil war (1642-1651): First idea of a
gorverment with limits.
 James I (ends in 1625) and Charles I (ends in 1649)
wanted to import Louis XIV´s absolutism.
 Charles II (1661-1685): The Restoration "a divinely
ordained miracle”. The sudden and unexpected
deliverance from usurpation and tyranny was
interpreted as a restoration of the natural and divine
order.

4. As there was not legitimate
heir to the throne of Charles
II´s marriage with the
Portuguese Catharine of
Bragança, his brother James
II succeeded him to the
throne.

5. Causes (1687 )
April 14/4 James issues his first English
Declaration of Indulgence, suspending
the penal laws in matters ecclesiastical
in England.
•In Scotland the Indulgence stated that
subjects were to obey the King's "sovereign
authority, prerogative royal, and absolute
power" “without reserve”
•in England it did not allow:
The liberty of conscience (Religion).
The parlamentarian´s laws .
October/November During these months rumors begin to
circulate to the effect that James’s wife,
Queen Mary of Modena, is pregnant.

6. On 30 June 1688, a group of seven protestant nobles invited the Prince of
Orange to come to England with his army.
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7. The Earl of Danby:
Thomas Osborne,
1st Duke of Leeds
Charles Talbot, 1st
Duke of Shrewsbury
Cavendish, 1st Duke
of Devonshire
Henry
Compton, Bishop of
London
Edward Rusell: 1st Earl
of Orford
Henry Sydney:1st
Earl of Romney
The viscount LumleyRichard
Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough

9. April 21/11 Coronation of William and Mary.
April28/18 Jeffreys dies a prisoner in the Tower.
May 17/7 England declares war on France.
June 3/May 24 William approves the Toleration Act,
September 2/Aug. 23 John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government
is licensed to be printed.
December 26/16 William approves the English Bill of
Rights of 1689, Seven weeks later, on Feb.
16/6 1690/1689, William dissolves the Convention
Parliament.

10. • English monarch cannot govern without Parliament's
consent to prevent the England from absolutism.