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| 1687 |
| | The Hungarian diet grants the Habsburg dynasty in Austria a hereditary right to the crown of St Stephen | |
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| 1688 |
| | A son (the future 'Old Pretender') is born to James II, giving Britain a Catholic heir to the throne | |
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| 1688 |
| | Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade | |
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| 1688 |
| | Sébastien de Vauban's socket bayonet is introduced in the French army | |
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| 1688 |
| | English grandees invite William III of Orange and his wife Mary, daughter of James II, to claim the British throne | |
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| 1688 |
| | William III of Orange lands with an army at Torbay and marches to London with almost no opposition from supporters of James II | |
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| 1689 |
| | Parliament in Westminster makes the restrictive Bill of Rights the condition on which William III and Mary II are crowned | |
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| 1689 |
| | James II, landing in Ireland, is acclaimed as king in Dublin by enthusiastic Irish Catholics | |
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| 1689 |
| | A Grand Alliance against France is formed by almost all the other powers in Europe | |
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| 1689 |
| | The 17-year-old Peter the Great becomes co-tsar of Russia with his half-brother Ivan V | |
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