Monmouth Rebellion
1685 · Event
Charles II's illegitimate Protestant son lands in Lyme Regis, is defeated at Sedgemoor and beheaded; precedes the Glorious Revolution.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1685
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)