January 24  The British Isles

key terms: constitutionalism, Test Act, Whig, Tory, James II, Jacobite, John Locke

"British history"

I.  Absolutism attempted: the Stuarts
background: the Tudors

The Stuarts
1603-1625
James I
1625-1649
Charles I
1642-1649
the War of the Three Kingdoms
1649-1660
the Interregnum or Commonwealth
1660-1685
Charles II
1685-1688
James II

II.  The Restoration
Declaration of Indulgence (1672)
Test Act (1673)
Tories and Whiggamores

III.  A glorious-but-not-so-bloodless revolution
Bill of Rights
Act of Toleration
Battle of the Boyne
Battle of Aughrim Hill

boyne