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6 days ago · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
May 24, 2024 · The Glorious Revolution [a] is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew. The two ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694.
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5 days ago · Acceptance of the Crown; The Two Houses to sit; Subjects Liberties to be allowed, and Ministers hereafter to serve according to the same; William and Mary declared King and Queen. Limitation of the Crown; Papists debarred the Crown; Every King, &c. shall make the Declaration of 30 Car.
3 days ago · The College of William & Mary in Virginia ( abbreviated as W&M [6] ), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [7]
May 23, 2024 · Upon the 13th of February the Prince and Princess of Orange, being placed on two large Seats under a Canopy of State in the Banquetting-House, both Houses of the Convention waited upon their Highnesses in a full Body, and caus'd the Clerk of the Crown to read with a loud Voice the following Declaration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons-assembled at Westminster; the most ...
May 4, 2024 · College of William & Mary, state coeducational university of liberal arts at Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.The second oldest institution of higher education in the United States (after Harvard College), it was chartered in 1693 by co-sovereigns King William III and Queen Mary II of England to develop clergymen and civil servants for the colony.
May 23, 2024 · 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 2.; The Queen shall govern in the King's Absence, in the Names of their Majesties; The King's Acts in his Absence good; The passing this Act or the King's Absence not to dissolve the Parliament.
