James the Second was a Catholic and England was mostly Protestant. Most of the English were unhappy with their Catholic ruler. So, the Protestants asked William of Orange to invade England to overthrow James. William agreed. So on July 12, 1690, William met James across the Boyne River. (The battle was called the Battle of the Boyne.) There William beat James and assumed control of England. James and his defeated army retreated to Catholic Ireland (and Scotland). (The question should say 1690.)
If you are referring to England, the constitutional monarchy started with the reign of William III and Mary II (William & Mary). After Mary's father, James II, was run out of the country in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, she and her husband, William of Orange, were offered the crown as co-rulers if they agreed to having their powers limited via an English Constitution.
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King William III of Britain, husband of Mary Stuart.
George Washington did not attend the College of William and Mary, but he did receive his surveyor's license from the College of William and Mary in 1749. He later served as the first American Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 1788 to 1799.
The Glorious Revolution was the name given to the bloodless overthrow of James II by William and Mary in 1688. James' Catholicism was a main driving force behind the revolution.
"The Glorious Revolution"
Queen Mary II and King William III.
When King James II was deposed, William of Orange was crowned King William III and his wife became Queen Mary II. Mary was the daughter of James II.
As a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, King William III became king alongside Queen Mary II upon the abdication of King James II, Mary II's Catholic father.
William III and Mary II were joint rulers of England and collectively known as William and Mary. They took over the United Kingdom when the throne was offered to William III after a meeting of Parliament.
The Glorious Revolution began shortly after James II became king in 1685, and began consolidating his royal power. The political struggle was given additional impetus in 1688 by the birth of a son to James. This threatened a Catholic dynasty, and the revolution deposed James in 1688 and installed the Protestant monarchs William III and Mary II in 1689.
The Glorious Revolution, otherwise known as the Revolution of 1688, is the period in time when the current king (King James II) of England was overthrown by English Parliament. The successors of the throne were the Dutch William (William of Orange as some called him) and his wife Mary. They became King William II of England and Mary II of England. James II lost power in England. Apex~
James II was dethroned in the nearly bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688 by his daughter Mary and her husband, William of Orange.
The revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)
King James II sent his army to meet and fight his son-in-law Prince William of Orange and his army on their march to London in November 1688. However, many of JamesÕs soldiers deserted and his other daughter Anne defected to her sister and brother-in-lawÕs side. By January 1688, James goes to France and William and Mary on the English throne without almost no blood shed.
Because William and Mary supported the supremacy of Parliament.