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1 giorno fa · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1 giorno fa · Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France .
2 giorni fa · Louis XIV in 1685, the year he revoked the Edict of Nantes Louis decided to persecute Protestants and revoke the 1598 Edict of Nantes , which awarded Huguenots political and religious freedom. He saw the persistence of Protestantism as a disgraceful reminder of royal powerlessness.
9 mag 2024 · James II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) and replaced by William III and Mary II. That revolution, engendered by James’s Roman Catholicism, permanently established Parliament as the ruling power in England.
13 mag 2024 · George Frideric Handel (born February 23, 1685, Halle, Brandenburg [Germany]—died April 14, 1759, London, England) was a German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, Messiah (1741), and is also known for such ...
24 apr 2024 · Charles Cotton (born April 28, 1630, Beresford Hall, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Feb. 16, 1687, London) was an English poet and country squire, chiefly remembered for his share in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler. Cotton made a number of translations from the French, including, in 1685, his often-reprinted version of Montaigne’s ...
3 giorni fa · JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH. Compositore tedesco. α 31 marzo 1685 ω 28 luglio 1750. Il cielo sopra Eisenach Johann Sebastian Bach nasce il 31 marzo 1685 a Eisenach, una cittadina tedesca che all'epoca contava circa seimila abitanti.
