Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

* 1775: James Watt invents a new efficient steam engine accelerating the industrial revolution in England.

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

He was appointed physician to James II in 1685, but the revolution deprived him of the post.

James Wheelock justified the actions of the Directorate by saying "... We are annulling the license of the false prophets and the oligarchs to attack the revolution.

James Hannam says that, while most historians do think something revolutionary happened at this time, that " the term ' scientific revolution ' is another one of those prejudicial historical labels that explain nothing.

C. L. R. James argued that most of the techniques of human organization employed on factory workers during the industrial revolution were first developed on slave plantations.

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

The wife of the leader of this revolution, William of Orange, was Mary, daughter of James II.

The granaries of Col. James Sulivane ( commissary officer during the American Revolutionary War ) and a regiment of militia known as the " New Market Blues " were integral to the County's as well as the colony's / State's efforts in the revolution.

James Chambers fought for seven years during the revolution, reaching the rank of Colonel of Continental troops on September 26, 1776.

After the British had destroyed Charles Town during the revolution, the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion gained supporters from Major John James.

* James C. Neill, politician, soldier in the Texas revolution, Alamo commander

It was in fact the birth of geology, marked by the publication of James Hutton's Theory of the Earth in 1788, which set in train the intellectual revolution that would dethrone Genesis as the ultimate authority on primeval earth and prehistory.

The revolution deposed James II and replaced him with his daughter from his first marriage Mary and her husband, William III of Orange.

Regarded into the 21st century as the foremost historian of the Puritan revolution, he wrote its history in a series of volumes, originally published under different titles, beginning with the accession of King James I of England.

The gift was declared void in 1851 in the case of Habershon v Vardon by Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Chancellor of the High Court, who stated " If it can be understood to mean any thing, it is to create a revolution in the dominions of an ally of her Majesty ".

However, after landing his forces unhindered at Torbay on 5 November ( O. S ) 1688, many welcomed William with open arms, and the revolution that shortly followed, commonly known as the ' Glorious Revolution ', ended James II's reign.

At the same time, revolution and reform in Scotland ( 1560 ) had also converted that country to Presbyterian Protestantism, which led to fresh difficulties when England and Scotland were united under one ruler, James I ( 1603 – 1625 ).

With James Jamerson, Stanley Clarke, Anthony Jackson and Alphonso Johnson, " Rocco " Prestia belongs to the generation of bassists that, a few years before, made possible the great revolution on the electric bass that Jaco Pastorius entailed with his innovations on mid-1970s.

Rhett ’ s rhetoric which talked of revolution and war was still too radical in the summer of 1828, but with the election of Jackson assured, James Hamilton Jr. on October 28 in Walterborough “ launched the formal nullification campaign ”.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

By 1991 the communist governments of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, all of which had been imposed after World War II, were brought down as revolution swept Eastern Europe.

In 1868, the Spanish queen Isabella II was expelled by a revolution, leaving that country's throne vacant.

Alexander II made up his own mind to abolish serfdom from above rather than wait for it to be abolished from below through revolution.

In Chapter II: “ Proletarians and Communists ” of The Communist Manifesto ( 1848 ), Engels and Marx presented the idea of the vanguard party as solely qualified to politically lead the proletariat in revolution:

The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution and Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, abdicated.

The Reign of Terror ( 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794: the latter is date 10 Thermidor, year II of the French Revolutionary Calendar ), also known simply as The Terror (), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of " enemies of the revolution.

Early in 1929, the Afghan leader King Amanullah lost power through revolution and civil war to Amir Habibullah II.

* Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a revolution in Transylvania.

Other data suggest the " revolution " was more directly influenced by the financial independence gained by many women who entered the workforce during and after World War II, making the revolution more about individual equality rather than biological independence.

The industrial revolution led to the increasing mechanisation of warfare, as well as rapid advances in the development of firearms ; the increased potential of devastation ( which was seen in the battlefields of World War I ) led to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia calling together the leaders of 26 nations for the First Hague Conference in 1899.

Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.

In Russia, the 1917 February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the establishment of Bolshevik Russia and a civil war between the Bolshevik Red Army and the monarchist White Army from 1917 to 1921.

The university was restored to Barcelona during the liberal revolution during the reign of Queen Isabella II.

The Eastern European Communist-led governments which came into being after World War II without a social revolution were described by a resolution of the 1948 congress as presiding over capitalist economies.

The victory of the liberals over the absolutists led to a " bourgeois revolution " during the reign of Isabella II.

The occupation of Indonesia by Japan for three and a half years during World War II was a crucial factor in the subsequent revolution.

There were in effect two economies – the Dutch and the Republican – both of which had to simultaneously rebuild after World War II and survive the disruptions of the revolution.

At first, the International held that, while the USSR was a degenerated workers ' state, the post-World War II East European states were still bourgeois entities, because revolution from above was not possible, and capitalism persisted.