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Hace 4 días · The promotion of the Earl of Bute, George's former tutor, to senior political office, despite his lack of experience or following in parliament; the king's continuing to show greater confidence in Bute than in his immediate successors; the dismissal of the first Rockingham administration in 1766; and, perhaps most serious of all, the ...
Hace 2 días · Charles's eldest son, the Duke of Monmouth, led a rebellion against James II, but was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, captured and executed. James was eventually dethroned in 1688, in the course of the Glorious Revolution. Statue of Charles II (c. 1682) in ancient Roman dress by Grinling Gibbons at the Royal Hospital Chelsea
- 29 May 1660 –, 6 February 1685
- Henrietta Maria of France
Hace 1 día · Windsor confers the title of Earl upon the family of Stuart, marquesses of Bute. Windsor WINDSOR, a suburb of the town of Liverpool, in the extra-parochial district of Toxteth-Park, union and hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 1½ mile (S. E. by E.) from the Exchange, Liverpool.
Hace 4 días · On September 8, James Stuart’s plan bore fruit. The Dutch flag was lowered at 8 AM in the morning and the English inherited an abandoned fort. New Amsterdam became New York.
Hace 5 días · All Accounts from London advise, that the Hon. Colonel James Stuart of Torrance, Esq; died last week at his lodgings in that city. He was an officer of great experience, and signalized his valour at the Battle of Almansa, Almansa, Albacete, Spain, 25 April 1707 38.87444, -1.0936944, and other actions in Spain.
Hace 2 días · May 12, 1669. Death: December 24, 1708 (39) Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (United Kingdom) Place of Burial: Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Immediate Family: Son of Patrick Lindsay, of Kilbirnie; Patrick Lindsay; Margaret Crawford, heretrix of Kilbirnie and Lady Margaret Crawford. Husband of Margaret Stewart, Viscountess of Garnock.
Hace 5 días · BUTLER, JAMES, twelfth EARL and first DUKE OF ORMONDE (1610-1688), son of Thomas, viscount Thurles (d.1619); grandson of Walter Butler, eleventh earl of Ormonde; styled Viscount Thurles, 1619; succeeded to the earldom, 1633; created marquis, 1642; created Earl of Brecknock in the English peerage, 1660; created Duke of Ormonde in the Irish ...