* 1460 – James II of Scotland ( b. 1430 )

Thus in 1285 he declared war on his uncle, James II of Majorca, and conquered both Majorca ( 1285 ) and Ibiza ( 1286 ), effectively reassuming suzerainty over the Kingdom of Majorca.

He initially sought to maintain the Aragonese control over Sicily early in his reign by supporting the claims to island of his brother, James II of Aragon.

He was the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou.

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.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

* 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.

* 1267 – James II of Aragon ( d. 1327 )

Alicante was finally taken in 1246 by the Castilian king Alfonso X, but it passed soon and definitely to the Kingdom of Valencia in 1298 with King James II of Aragon.

* King James Bible Online-Kings II chapter-indexed English translation.

Following William and Mary's accession to the throne, England involved itself in the War of the Grand Alliance primarily to prevent a French invasion restoring Mary's father, James II.

On the death of Charles II his brother, a Roman Catholic, became James II.

In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland ( later to become King James I of England ) takes place.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

* 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

In England ( and after 1707 Great Britain ) the Oath of Abjuration denied the royal title of James II's heirs ( i. e. the direct Catholic descendent of the House of Stuart exiled after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 ).

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

Key work on the traditional ballad was undertaken in the late 19th century in Denmark by Svend Grundtvig and for England and Scotland by the Harvard professor Francis James Child.

Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, his son King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland.

After the fall of James II of England, in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of the successful revolt against James's governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.

* Canterbury ( ship ), the ship which transported William Penn and James Logan from England to Philadelphia in 1699

When Elizabeth I of England died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as James I, Charles was not considered strong enough to make the journey to London due to his fragile health.

The architect James Gibbs was a transitional figure, many of his buildings having a hint of Baroque, reflecting the time he spent in Rome in the early 18th century.

The facility was named Kamakaiwi Field after James Kamakaiwi, a young Hawaiian who had arrived with the first group of four colonists, was subsequently picked as leader and spent a total of over three years on Howland, far longer than the average recruit.

They travelled via Baffin Bay, Lancaster and Peel Sounds, and James Ross, Simpson and Rae Straits and spent two winters near King William Island in what is today Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

In 1926, Keaton spent $ 300, 000 to build a home in Beverly Hills, which was later owned by James Mason and Cary Grant.

A refinement variously credited to either James C. Crow or Jason S. Amburgey was the sour mash process, by which each new fermentation is conditioned with some amount of spent mash ( the wet solids strained from a previous batch of fermented mash, which still contain live yeast ).

James spent eight years on his uncle's plantation, Westover, just outside the city, while he attended the Academy of Richmond County.

Vancouver Island came to the attention of Britain after the third voyage of Captain James Cook, who spent a month during 1778 at Nootka Sound, on the island's western coast.

Byrd named the city " Richmond " after the English town of Richmond near ( and now part of ) London, because the view of the James River was strikingly similar to the view of the River Thames from Richmond Hill in England, where he had spent time during his youth.

Augustus John and his student James Dickson Innes spent two years painting in the Arenig valley around 1910, especially the mountain Arenig Fawr.

It was at Dunfermline and also Scone that James would have spent most of his early childhood in his mother's household.

Her first night in Scotland was spent at Fast Castle ; the next at the nunnery at Haddington ; on the third night, at ' Acquik ' or ' Dacquik ' Castle, ( Dalkeith Palace ), James came to kiss her goodnight.

The Cavaliers spent the rest of the 2010 off-season rebuilding their team after James ' departure.

Hogg, the seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet, was born and spent most of his life in London.

Future U. S. Vice Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U. S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there.

* Writer Clive James spent a large part of his early life in Britain living in Tufnell Park, and describes in detail his disdain for it in his book Falling Towards England.

They were married a year later by James Muilenberg in Montclair, N. J., and spent the next four months traveling in Europe.

In the early 1870s, Frank and his brother Jesse James robbed banks from Missouri to Texas, and were reported to have spent time in this area.

Upon her coming of age at 16, Fanny returned to Scotland, where she lived with her great-uncle James Mylne, and spent her winters in study and writing and her summers visiting the Scottish Highlands.

He also spent much time in self-study, drawing in museums and painting in a studio he shared with James Carroll Beckwith.

* John James Audubon spent considerable time here, as he made many of his bird fieldbook sketches at the Falls of the Ohio.

* James Armstrong, former President of the National Council of Churches, spent his infancy in Yorktown.

James Gardiner, from Platte Co., MO, sojourned in Jefferson Co. from 1854 to 1855, and came to the Denison area in 1855, but removed in 1857 to Jefferson Co .; his son, John T. Gardiner, came in 1856 and spent most of the remainder of his life there.

* John James Audubon State Park — Ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon spent several years in Henderson in the 1810s.