In this year, Purcell also composed a march and quick-step, which became so popular that Lord Wharton adapted the latter to the fatal verses of Lillibullero ; and in or before January 1688, he composed his anthem " Blessed are they that fear the Lord " by express command of the King.

He then accompanied Marshal Schomberg to England in 1688, and the following year became minister of the French church in the Savoy area of London.

The Book of Jubilees states that Ur was founded in 1688 Anno Mundi ( year of the world ) by ' Ur son of Kesed, presumably the offspring of Arphaxad, adding that in this same year wars began on Earth.

Year 1688 ( MDCLXXXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

In 1688 an uncle left him a fortune and an estate at Shenton Hall, Leicestershire, and in November of the same year he settled in London.

It was constructed by architect Albrecht von Saebisch ( 1610 – 1688 ) from Wroclaw ( then German Breslau ) and was finished a year later in 1655.

To the following year ( 1688 ) belongs his Digression sur les anciens et les modernes, in which he took the modern side in the controversy then raging ; his Doutes sur le système physique des causes occasionnelles ( against Nicolas Malebranche ) appeared shortly afterwards.

The year 1688 in literature involved some significant events.

Fox himself intended to write a history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 but only managed the first year of James II's reign.

Bumbutai died a year later in 1688 and was interred in the Zhaoling Mausoleum in Shenyang, Liaoning.

Vlamingh joined the VOC ( Dutch East India Company ) in 1688 and made his first voyage to Batavia in the same year.

Although labelled a Tory by the opposition, Eldon called himself a Whig, sat with them during the 1830 parliamentary session and in 1825 drank " the ' 48, the year 1688, and the glorious and immortal memory of William III ".

The year 1688 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

King Narai ( 1656 CE to 1688 CE ) not only held court in Ayutthaya but also from his palace in the nearby city of Lopburi, from where he ruled 8-9 months in the year.

There were six colonial wars with New England and the Iroquois Confederacy fighting New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy over a seventy-five year period, starting with King William's War in 1688.

In the Genroku era ( 1688 – 1704 ) of the Edo Period, it was revived, but in the 2nd year of the Meiji Period ( 1869 ), when the capital was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo, observance of the festival procession stopped.

There can be no doubt that Sedley opposed the Catholic James and supported William of Orange in the crucial year of 1688.

The duchy was sold by the fourth Duke in 1688 to Charles François Frederic of Montmorency-Luxembourg, who was created Duke of Beaufort without a peerage that same year.

Done into English ;’ it was reprinted in the same year, and again in 1688, 1715, 1720, and 1737.

The year 1688 was a time of massive anxiety in English politics.

He became professor of mathematics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris in 1688 and was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences in the same year.

He owned and built Rainton Hall around the year 1688.

BusinessWeek explained the alliance between Ford and Mazda has been a very successful one, with Mazda saving perhaps $ 90 million a year in development costs and Ford " several times " that, and that a sale of its stake in Mazda would be a desperate measure.

Things now seemed increasingly desperate, and in May 1272 Hugh III of Cyprus, who was the nominal king of Jerusalem, signed a ten – year truce with Baibars.

However, he insisted Demetrius would become king, knowing that Rome would never tolerate a unified Hellenistic state, and the year after Ptolemy VI was killed when Alexander Balas made a last desperate attempt to regain his throne.

Still in desperate need of a male heir, the next year he married the 23-year-old Palatine princess Maria Anna of Neuburg, a daughter of Philip William, Elector of the Palatinate, and sister-in-law of his uncle Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

In the same year ( 321 BC ) the two consuls, leading an invading force into Samnium, were trapped in a mountain pass known as the Caudine Forks where they could neither advance nor retreat, and after a desperate struggle would have been annihilated if they had not submitted to the humiliating terms imposed by the Samnite victor Gaius Pontius.

The winter of the next year found the Plataeans in a desperate situation.

East Pakistan had recently endured devastation as a result of the Bhola cyclone, and the Bengalis ' desperate plight increased in March that year when torrential rains and floods arrived in the region, threatening a humanitarian disaster.

After one final, desperate visit to Sue in freezing weather, Jude becomes seriously ill and dies within the year.

After a year of desperate fighting and splendid heroism on the part of the defenders he took the city of Carthage, taking about 50, 000 survivors ( about one-tenth of the city's population ) prisoner, and, complying with the mandate of the Senate, ordered the city razed to the ground and plowed over after being evacuated and set on fire, ending the Third Punic War.

The situation did not improve in Arkansas that year and farmers were in such desperate straits that they called upon Governor Churchill to ask the legislature to postpone the collection of taxes.

: Sing Tao Daily editorialized: " The desperate capture of Iraqi former president Saddam symbolizes the bad fate of a corrupt dictator and also the best Christmas present this year for US President George Bush, but for the Iraqis who have undergone a baptism of fire in the war, the days of peace are still far away, and the road of reconstruction is as long and arduous as before.

De Winter gave urgent orders for the van and centre to drop back to assist the rear, but there was little time and his situation looked desperate: although the Dutch and British lines each mustered 16 ships, the British vessels were almost all larger and more strongly built than their Dutch counterparts and their crews were experienced seamen in the heavy weather conditions while the Dutch crews, confined to port for the previous year, had little understanding of the skills required in combat at sea.

After a decisive defeat in the Southern Provincial Council Election in 1994, he dissolved parliament prematurely in June that year, in a desperate bid to stem the rising wave of popularity of Chandrika Kumaratunga.

If in the desperate search, the virgin runs into the rain, she takes shelter in the nearest church where she will have to stay until the next night of the forthcoming year.

Camber's desperate deception appears to reap nothing but positive results for most of the year, but events take an unexpected turn following Anscom's death in September.

After a year of increasingly desperate operations, including fierce battles among the various Acholi rebel groups for resources, the UPDA signed an accord with the government on 3 June 1988 that called for an end to the conflict and a democratic government.

Alexander died in the same year and the new government under the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos made desperate attempts to avoid the war, promising that the infant Emperor Constantine VII would marry one of Simeon's daughters.

The candour lies in Scannell's willingness to write about the conclusion to his army life: " Twenty-five years ago, 1945 ... was the year I made what might seem like a desperate decision and performed what might appear to be an act of criminal folly, manic selfishness, zany recklessness, abject cowardice or even, perhaps, eccentric courage.

He and Grace have a fight after Will comes out to her — after proposing marriage to her in a desperate means of avoiding sex — and do not speak to each other for a year.

We then meet Chris, the boy throwing the party, a 17 year old boy desperate to lose his virginity.

He fought, and in the end lost, the desperate Battle of Freiburg, but revenged himself the next year by inflicting upon Turenne the defeat of Mergentheim ( Marienthal ).