January 22 » The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
February 13 » William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
April 11 » William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
April 18 » Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
May 24 » The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
December 16 » Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
Day of death April 25, 1754
The temperature on April 25, 1754 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: regen geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
May 28 » French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
July 3 » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
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