Timeline (An Orange Dynasty)

This is an abridged version of the chronology for the 'An Orange Dynasty' timeline.

17th Century
1692 (POD) - Following his victory after a brief war in Ireland  and the signing of the Treaty of Limmerick, King William III stund his unionised nations after he declared that his wife and co-regent Mary II was expecting a child. Following several months of hard labour and sickness on the wife's part, the couple announce to the world that Mary had  given birth to a healthy boy on 13 October, christening their new son and heir Frederick William Henry of Orange-Nassau.

1693 (Nine Years War) - After hearing the news of several major English-Dutch naval defeats at the hands of the French off the coast of Portugal, William personally travelled to Belgium to take up command of his nations united forces, later being defeated at the hands of the French at the Battle of Landen.

1694 (Nine Years War) - Following the rapid growth of national debt due to the ongoing war with France, the then Whig dominated English Parliament passed an act at the bequest of the Scottish merchant William Patterson with the aim of raising state capital with the promise of safe and steady interest. Ultimately raising £1.2 million for the war effort, it was the first government debt in the western world.

(Colonialism) - After her husband caught dysentery during a prolonged period of military action in Flanders, Mary II (without advice from William III) advised the Scottish government to persue the establishment of a trading post along the Calabar Coast in Africa to tap into the lucrative slave trade in the region, as well as provide for the relatively tariff free transportation of goods from the India and the Dutch Cape Colony.