jul 17, 1686 - King James II of England appoints four Roman Catholics to the Privy Council of England in defiance of the Test Acts, which bar Catholics from public office. Suspicions about James's intentions lead to a group of conspirators meeting at Charborough House in Dorset, to plan his overthrow and replacement with the Protestant Dutch Stadtholder, William III of Orange-Nassau (James's son-in-law)
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jul 17, 1686
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~ 338 years ago
