The Glorious Revolution (In Our Time)
1688 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the the Glorious Revolution. In 1688, with a fair wind behind him and no naval opposition in front, William of Orange and his Dutch fleet sailed safely into Torbay on the South coast and thus began a period of history known - in England at least - as The Glorious Revolution. The story goes that the English, fed up with their C
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1688
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)