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   1688   
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   January–June   
      
       March – William Dampier makes the first recorded visit to   
   Christmas Island.   
       March 1 – A great fire devastates Bungay, England.   
       April 3 – Francesco Morosini becomes Doge of Venice.   
       April 10 – Morean War: The Venetian forces under Francesco   
   Morosini evacuate Athens and Piraeus.   
       April 18 (Julian calendar) – The Germantown Quaker Protest Against   
   Slavery is drafted by four Germantown Quakers.   
       April 29 – Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of   
   Brandenburg-Prussia, dies. Friedrich III becomes Elector of   
   Brandenburg-Prussia until 1701, when he becomes the first King of   
   Prussia, as Friedrich I.   
       May 4 – King James II of England orders his Declaration of   
   Indulgence, suspending penal laws against Catholics, to be read from   
   every Anglican pulpit in England. The Church of England and its   
   staunchest supporters, the peers and gentry, are outraged; on June 8   
   the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, is imprisoned in the   
   Tower of London for refusing to proclaim it.   
       May 10 – King Narai of Ayutthaya nominates Princess Sudawadi as   
   his successor, with Constantine Phaulkon, Mom Pi and Phetracha acting   
   as joint regents.   
       May 17 – The arrest of King Narai of Ayutthaya launches a coup   
   d'état.   
       June 5 – Constantine Phaulkon is arrested; he is later beheaded.   
       June 10 – The birth of James Francis Edward Stuart (later known as   
   the Old Pretender), son and heir to James II of England and his   
   Catholic wife Mary of Modena, at St James's Palace in London,   
   increases public disquiet about a Catholic dynasty, particularly when   
   the baby is baptised into the Catholic faith. Rumours about his true   
   maternity swiftly begin to circulate.   
       June 24 – French forces under Chevalier de Beauregard abandon   
   their garrison at Mergui, following repeated Siamese attacks; this   
   ultimately leads to their withdrawal from the country.   
       June 30 – A high-powered conspiracy of notables (the Immortal   
   Seven) invite Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange and Princess   
   Mary to "defend the liberties of England", and depose King James VII   
   and II.   
      
   July–December   
      
       July 13 – The siege of Negroponte by the Venetians begins.   
       August 1 – Phetracha becomes king of Ayutthaya, after a coup   
   d'état.   
       August 27 – The funding of the armed invasion of William III in   
   England causes a financial crisis in the Dutch Republic.[21]   
       September 6 – Great Turkish War: The Habsburg army captures   
   Belgrade.   
       October 21 – The Venetians raise the siege of Negroponte.   
       October 27 – King James II of England dismisses his minister   
   Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland.   
       November 11 (November 1 OS) – Glorious Revolution: William III of   
   Orange sets sail a second time from Hellevoetsluis, the Netherlands,   
   to take over England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of   
   England.   
       November 15 (November 5 OS) – The Glorious Revolution begins:   
   William of Orange lands at Torbay, England with a multinational force   
   of 15,000 mercenaries. He makes no claim to the British Crown, saying   
   only that he has come to save Protestantism and to maintain English   
   liberty, and begins a march on London.   
       November 19 (November 9 OS) – William of Orange captures Exeter,   
   after the magistrates flee the city.   
       November 20 (November 10 OS) – The Wincanton Skirmish between   
   forces loyal to James II led by Patrick Sarsfield and a party of Dutch   
   troops is one of the few armed clashes in England during the Glorious   
   Revolution.   
       November 23 – A group of 1,500 Old Believers immolate themselves   
   to avoid capture, when troops of the tsar lay siege to their monastery   
   on Lake Onega.   
       November 26 – Hearing that William of Orange has landed in   
   England, Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands. Perhaps   
   revealingly, he does not attack the Netherlands, but instead strikes   
   at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, with about 100,000 soldiers.   
   The Nine Years' War begins in Europe and America.   
       December 7 –   
      
       December 7: The shutting of the gates in Derry in a stained glass   
   window of the Guildhall[22]   
       The gates of Derry are shut in front of the Jacobite Earl of   
   Antrim and his "redshanks". This initiates the siege of Derry, which   
   is the first major event in the Williamite War in Ireland.   
       December 9 – The Battle of Reading takes place in Reading,   
   Berkshire. It is the only substantial military action in England   
   during the Glorious Revolution and ends in a decisive victory for   
   forces loyal to William of Orange.   
       December 11 – Having led his army to Salisbury and been deserted   
   by his troops, James VII and II attempts to flee to France.   
       December 18 – William of Orange enters London.   
      
   Date unknown   
      
       The Austrians incite the Chiprovtsi Uprising, against the Ottomans   
   in Bulgaria.   
       Edward Lloyd opens the London coffee house that soon becomes a   
   popular meeting place for shipowners, merchants, insurance brokers and   
   underwriters. In time the business association they form will outgrow   
   the coffee house premises, and become Lloyd's of London.   
       Neuruppin becomes a Prussian garrison town.   
       Johann Weikhard von Valvasor becomes a member of the Royal   
   Society.   
       Antonio Verrio begins work on the Heaven Room at Burghley House.   
       The earliest known mention of the balalaika is made.   
      
   (source: ?Wikipedia)   
      
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