Popish Plot
1678 · Event
Titus Oates's fabricated tale of a Catholic plot against Charles II provokes a wave of executions and the Exclusion Crisis.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1678
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)