Louis XIV
Jan 13 An Age of Stability?
I. stabilizing the relationship between king and parliament
issues: Catholic on the throne? power of parliament?
A. "Glorious Revolution"
B. the "rage of party"
II. emergence of a Whig oligarchy
III. the spirit of commerce
| 1601-1625 | James I |
| 1625-1649 | Charles I |
| 1642-1649 | War of the Three Kingdoms |
| 1649-1660 | interregnum (Cromwell) |
| 1660-1685 | Charles II |
| 1685-1688 | James II |
Invitation to the Prince of Orange
Louis XIV
Battle of the Boyne
House of Hanover
| 1701 | Act of Settlement |
| 1702-1714 | Anne |
| 1714-1727 | George I |
| 1727-1760 | George II |
| 1760-1820 | George III |
Robert Walpole, first "prime minister"
| 1688-1690 | War of the British Succession |
| 1689-1697 | War of the League of Augsburg |
| 1702-1713 | War of the Spanish Succession |
| 1739-1748 | War of Jenkins Ear/ the Austrian Succession |
| 1756-1763 | Seven Years War |
| 1775-1783 | War of American Independence |
| 1793-1802 | Wars against Revolutionary France |
| 1803-1815 | Wars against Napoleon |