Editing 1688 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Francesco Morosini]] becomes [[Doge of Venice]].<ref name="NE">{{cite book |last1=Setton |first1=Kenneth Meyer |title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century |date=1991 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-192-7 |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&dq=Francesco+Morosini+%223+april+1688%22&pg=PA346|access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|346}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Romanin |first1=Samuele |title=Storia documentata di Venezia: Tomo VII |date=1858 |publisher=Naratovich |page=491 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHQ5AAAAcAAJ&dq=Francesco+Morosini+%223+aprile+1688%22&pg=PA491 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Morean War]]: The Venetian forces under [[Francesco Morosini]] evacuate [[Athens]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bearman |first1=P. |last2=Bianquis |first2=Th. |last3=Bosworth |first3=C.E. |last4=van Donzel |first4=E. |last5=Heinrichs |first5=W.P. |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |date=1986 |publisher=Brill |page=739 |url=https://archive.org/details/ei2-complete/Encyclopaedia_of_Islam_vol_1_A-B/page/739/mode/2up?q=athens |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> and [[Piraeus]].
* [[April 18]] (Julian calendar) &ndash; The Germantown ''Quaker Protest Against Slavery'' is drafted by four [[Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Germantown]] [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=II |first1=Edwin Wolf |title=Germantown and the Germans|date=1983 |publisher=The Library Company of Philadelphia |isbn=978-0-914076-72-8 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VmzfBuX1Z2QC&dq=%22april+18+1688%22+Quaker+Protest+Against+Slavery&pg=PA11 |access-date=7 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; King [[James VII and II|James II of England]] orders his [[Declaration of Indulgence (1687)|Declaration of Indulgence]], suspending penal laws against [[Catholic Church|Catholics]], to be read from every [[Anglican]] pulpit in England.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Killeen |first1=Kevin |last2=Smith |first2=Helen |last3=Willie |first3=Rachel |title=The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, C. 1530-1700 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-968697-1 |page=442 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAM7CgAAQBAJ&dq=Declaration+of+Indulgence+%224+may+1688%22&pg=PA442 |access-date=8 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Church of England]] and its staunchest supporters, the peers and gentry, are outraged; on [[June 8]] the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[William Sancroft]], is imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]] for refusing to proclaim it.
* [[May 9]] (April 29 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) &ndash; [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg|Friedrich Wilhelm]], the ''Great Elector'' of [[Brandenburg-Prussia]], dies.<ref name="FE">{{cite book |last1=Maurice |first1=C. Edmund |title=Life of Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg |date=1926 |publisher=G. Allen & Unwin ltd. |page=177 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008725684&view=1up&seq=183&q1=1688 |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref> [[Frederick I of Prussia|Friedrich III]] becomes [[Prince-elector|Elector]] of Brandenburg-Prussia until [[1701]], when he becomes the first King of [[Prussia]], as Friedrich I.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; King [[Narai]] of [[Ayutthaya kingdom|Ayutthaya]] nominates Princess [[Sudawadi]] as his successor, with [[Constantine Phaulkon]], Mom Pi and [[Phetracha]] acting as joint regents.<ref name="NA">{{cite book |last1=Cruysse |first1=Dirk van der |title=Siam and the West, 1500-1700 |date=2002 |publisher=Silkworm Books |location=Chiang Mai |isbn=978-974-7551-57-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/siamwest150017000000cruy/page/444/mode/2up?q=%2210+may%22 |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|444}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smithies |first1=Michael |title=Robert Challe and Siam |journal=Journal of the Siam Society |date=1993 |volume=81 |issue=1 |page=97 |url=https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1993/03/JSS_081_1f_Smithies_RobertChalleAndSiam.pdf |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; The arrest of King [[Narai]] of Ayutthaya launches a [[Siamese revolution of 1688|coup d'état]].
* [[June 5]] 
**A [[1688 Sannio earthquake|7.0 magnitude earthquake]]<ref>{{cite web |title=5 June 1688 earthquake |url=https://www.emidius.eu/AHEAD/event/16880605_1530_000 |website=www.emidius.eu |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref> strikes southern Italy at 6:30 in the evening and kills at least 10,000 people in the [[Kingdom of Naples]] in what is now the [[province of Benevento]].
**[[Constantine Phaulkon]] is beheaded after having been arrested in May.<ref name="CP">{{cite thesis |last=Strach III |first=Walter J. |date=2004 |title=Constantine Phaulkon and Somdet Phra Narai: Dynamics of Court Politics in Seventeenth Century Siam |url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/18f5fa01-b83e-45e2-b981-639c319b7045/content |type=M.A  |publisher=University of Hawai'i |pages=1–2 |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; The birth of [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] (later known as the ''Old Pretender''), son and heir to James II of England and his Catholic wife [[Mary of Modena]], at [[St James's Palace]] in London, increases public disquiet about a Catholic dynasty, particularly when the baby is baptised into the Catholic faith. Rumours about his true maternity swiftly begin to circulate.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; French forces under [[Chevalier de Beauregard]] abandon their garrison at [[Mergui]], following repeated Siamese attacks; this ultimately leads to their withdrawal from the country.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boucheron |first1=Patrick |last2=Gerson |first2=Stéphane |title=France in the World: A New Global History |date=9 April 2019 |publisher=Other Press, LLC |isbn=978-1-59051-942-4 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7r9kDwAAQBAJ&dq=Chevalier+de+Beauregard+mergui+24+june+1688&pg=PA374 |access-date=8 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] &ndash; A high-powered conspiracy of notables (the ''[[Invitation to William|Immortal Seven]]'') invite Dutch [[stadtholder]] [[William III of England|William III of Orange]] and [[Mary II of England|Princess Mary]] to "defend the liberties of England", and depose [[James II of England|King James VII and II]].<ref>{{cite book |title=In Their Own Words 2: More letters from history |date=6 September 2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-84486-524-6 |pages=56–57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEptDwAAQBAJ&dq=immortal+seven+william+ii+%2230+june+1688%22&pg=PT57 |access-date=9 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>