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.
March 12 » James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
April 11 » William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
July 27 » Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
August 21 » The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
October 26 » General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
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