15 August 1688Birth of Frederick William IFrederick William I
Birth of Frederick William I, son of Frederick I of Prussia
Historical records for Germany in 1688, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Birth of Frederick William I, son of Frederick I of Prussia
Appointed Commander in Chief of the expedition to Ireland against the Jacobite supporters of James II
Ernest Augustus supports the coalition of north German princes mobilizing against the French Rhineland campaign.
Frederick III joins the north German agreement at Magdeburg to mobilize forces against the French advance.
John George III joins the German princes coordinating military resistance to France at Magdeburg.
Starhemberg conducts a determined defence of Philippsburg before the outnumbered Imperial garrison capitulates.
Appointed 2nd in Command of William IIIs army
After landing at Bangor Bay and capturing Carrickfergus he marched unopposed through a country desolated before him to Dundalk but as the bulk of his forces were raw and undisciplined as well as inferior in numbers to the enemy
Shortly afterwards pestilence broke out, and when he retired to winter quarters in Ulster his forces were more shattered than if they had sustained a severe defeat. Commands the expedition to Ireland against James II
he deemed it imprudent to risk a battle and entrenching himself at Dundalk declined to be drawn beyond the circle of his defences.
Joins the war of the League of Augsburg against France
Publication of "Tractatus theoligo Politicus"
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