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November 5 in Scottish History

Today in 1688 William of Orange landed in southwest England. Protestant statesmen had invited William to come to Britain and rule in place of the Catholic James II, ending the persecution of the Covenanters. James fled to France, and the following year William and his wife Mary (the eldest daughter of Charles I) were crowned as joint sovereigns. William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 effectively ended James' hopes of restoration to the throne, and the Jacobite cause was born. William died in 1702, to be succeeded by his late wife's sister Anne, with whose death in 1714 the Stewart dynasty ended.