The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1679 until 1681 in the reign of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. Three Exclusion Bills sought to exclude...
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Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed Whig efforts to exclude James, Duke of York from...
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Scotland. The word Whig entered English political discourse during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1679–1681: there was controversy about whether King Charles II's...
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James II of England (section Exclusion Crisis)
elected in 1680 and 1681, but were dissolved for the same reason. The Exclusion Crisis contributed to the development of the English two-party system: the...
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Parliament, but prorogued it on 27 May 1679 to prevent it passing the Exclusion Bill (to exclude James II, then Duke of York from succeeding to the Crown...
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Charles II of England and mother of James, Duke of Monmouth. During the Exclusion Crisis, a Protestant faction wanted to make her son heir to the throne, fuelled...
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Irish language, that was first used in English politics during the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–1681. It also has exponents in other parts of the former British...
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which some sanctioning authority prohibits specific activities Exclusion Crisis and Exclusion Bill, a 17th-century attempt to ensure a Protestant succession...
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sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, had become a Catholic. The crisis saw the...
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (section The Exclusion Crisis and the birth of the Whig Party, 1679–1683)
from 1661 to 1672 and Lord Chancellor from 1672 to 1673. During the Exclusion Crisis, Shaftesbury headed the movement to bar the Catholic heir, James II...
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