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Date |
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| 1 | 1619 | - 4 Dec 1619: Thanksgiving
(Nov 24 old style): Colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in
Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the
Americas)
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| 2 | 1620 | - 1620: Coke
Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
- 21 Dec 1620: Mayflower
(Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New
England (had initially set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
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| 3 | 1621 | - 1621: Chimneys
Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
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| 4 | 1622 | - 1622: The Weekly News
First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
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| 5 | 1624 | - 1624: Monopoly Act
Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
- 1624: Edmund Gunter
Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
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| 6 | 1625 | - 1625: Bricks
The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
- 27 Mar 1625: King James
Death of King James VI & I
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| 7 | 1628 | - 1 Mar 1628: Charles I
Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns)
pay ship tax by this date
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| 8 | 1629 | - 10 Mar 1629: Parliament dissolved
Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 years
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| 9 | 1633 | - Jun 1633: Galileo
Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
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| 10 | 1635 | - 1635: Flintlock small arms
Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
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| 11 | 1636 | - 1636: Hackney Carriages
Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
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| 12 | 1638 | - 1638: revival of Presbyterian Church
King Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason - forced Scots to choose between their church and the King - a 'Covenant' swearing to resist these changes to the Death was signed in Greyfriars Church Edinburgh and was accepted by hundreds of thousands of Scots (revival of Presbyterian Church)
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| 13 | 1639 | - 1639: Act of Toleration
Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
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| 14 | 1640 | - 3 Nov 1640: The Long Parliament
Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish
invasion
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| 15 | 1641 | - 1641: Charles I
Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
- 1641: English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church
Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
- 23 Oct 1641: Ulster uprising
50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
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| 16 | 1642 | - 1642: English theatres closed
English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
- 22 Aug 1642: First Civil War in England
Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to
1649)
- 13 Nov 1642: Battle of Turnham Green
Battle of Turnham Green - Royalist forces withdraw in face of the
Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
- 24 Nov 1642: Discovery of Van Diemen's Land
Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
- 18 Dec 1642: First European to set foot in New Zealand
Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
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| 17 | 1643 | - 13 Dec 1643: Battle of Alton
Battle of Alton - victory for Parliamentarians - Sir Richard Bolle killed in St Lawrence's church
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| 18 | 1644 | - 29 Jun 1644: Battle of Cropredy Bridge
Battle of Cropredy Bridge - Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
- 2 Jul 1644: Battle of Marston Moor
Battle of Marston Moor, near York - Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
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| 19 | 1645 | - 1645: Scots Militia
Scotland: Each county and burgh ordered to raise and maintain a number of foot soldiers, according to population, to serve as militia - population of Scotland estimated at 420,000
- 1645: Plague
Plague made its last appearance in Scotland
- 14 Jun 1645: Battle of Naseby
Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
- 13 Sep 1645: Battle of Philiphaugh
Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland (near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. The Royalist army of the Marquess of Montrose was destroyed by the Covenanter army of Sir David Leslie, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates.)
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| 20 | 1646 | - 5 May 1646: Charles I
Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
- 20 Jun 1646: Royalists surrender
Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
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| 21 | 1648 | - 1648: Society of Friends founded
Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
- 1648: First practical thermometers
First practical thermometers made
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| 22 | 1649 | - 1649: Cromwell's Irish campaign
Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
- 1649: King Charles II
King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
- 6 Jan 1649: 'Rump' Parliament
'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
- 30 Jan 1649: King Charles I
King Charles I executed
- 19 May 1649: Commonwealth declared
Commonwealth declared
- 20 Dec 1649: Theatres banned
Theatres banned by Cromwell
- 20 Dec 1649: Christmas banned
Christmas banned by Cromwell
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| 23 | 1650 | - 1650: Coffee
Coffee brought to England about this time
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| 24 | 1651 | - 1651: English Civil War
The second English Civil War (1651-1652)
- 1651: Scottish prisoners
Scottish prisoners transported to the British settlements in America
- 3 Sep 1651: Battle of Worcester
Battle of Worcester
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| 25 | 1653 | - 1653: Commonwealth registers
Commonwealth registers start
- 1653: Act of Settlement
Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land
- 1653: Provincial probate courts abolished
Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
- 20 Apr 1653: Rump Parliament
Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
- 16 Dec 1653: Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,
Scotland and Ireland
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| 26 | 1657 | - 1657: Post Office
Post Office established by Act of Parliament [others say 1660]
- 1657: Jews
A few Jews permitted to settle in England
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| 27 | 1658 | - 1658: Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector (-1660)
- 3 Sep 1658: Oliver Cromwell
Death of Oliver Cromwell
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| 28 | 1659 | - 1659: Temperature records
Start of national meteorological Temperature records in the UK
- 6 Feb 1659: 1st bank cheque
Date of first known bank cheque to be drawn
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| 29 | 1660 | - 1660: Commonwealth registers ended
Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
- 1660: Provincial Probate Courts
Provincial Probate Courts re-established
- 1660: Clarendon code
Clarendon code restricts Puritans' religious freedom
- 1660: Composition of light discovered
Composition of light discovered by Newton
- 1660: Honourable East India Company
Honourable East India Company founded by British
- 1 Jan 1660: Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys starts his diary
- 29 May 1660: Restoration of monarchy
Restoration of British monarchy (Charles II) - 'Oak Apple Day' - theatres
reopened
- 17 Oct 1660: Ten Regicides are executed
Ten Regicides are executed at Charing Cross or Tyburn
- 28 Nov 1660: Royal Society formed
Twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir
Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society
- 8 Dec 1660: First actress plays in London
First actress plays in London (Margaret Hughes as Desdemona)
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| 30 | 1661 | - 1661: Restoration of Episcopacy
Restoration of Episcopacy in Scotland
- 1661: Board of Trade
Board of Trade founded in London
- 1661: Hand-struck postage stamps
Hand-struck postage stamps first used
- 1661: Corporation Act
Corporation Act prevents non-Anglicans from holding municipal office
- 30 Jan 1661: Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell formally 'executed', having been dead for over two years!
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| 31 | 1662 | - 1662: Hearth Tax
'Hearth Tax' introduced - until 1689 (1690 in Scotland)
- 1662: Poor Relief Act
Poor Relief Act or Act of Settlement' - gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin (repealed 1834)
- 1662: Tea introduced to Britain
Tea introduced to Britain
- 24 Aug 1662: Act of Uniformity
Act of Uniformity - Acceptance of Book of Common Prayer required - About 2,000 vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists (Presbyterians and Independents) - Persecution of all non-conformists - Presbyterianism dis-established - Episcopalian Church of England restored
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| 32 | 1664 | - 29 May 1664: Oak Apple Day
Oak Apple Day - the birthday of Charles II and the day when he entered London at the Restoration; commanded by Act of Parliament in 1664 to be observed as a day of thanksgiving. A special service (expunged in 1859) was inserted in the Book of Common Prayer and people wore sprigs of oak with gilded oak-apples on that day.
- 27 Aug 1664: New York
Nieuw Amsterdam becomes New York as 300 English soldiers under Col. Mathias Nicolls take the town from the Dutch under orders from Charles II. The town is renamed after the King's brother James, Duke of York
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| 33 | 1665 | - 1665: Great Plague of London
Great Plague of London (July-October) kills over 60,000
- 1665: Five-mile Act
Five-mile Act restricts non-conformist ministers in Britain. It was one of the English penal laws that sought to enforce conformity to the established Church of England
- 7 Nov 1665: London Gazette
The 'London Gazette' first published - one of the official journals of record of the United Kingdom government and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom
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| 34 | 1666 | - 1666: Semaphore signalling
Use of semaphore signalling pioneered by Lord Worcester
- 1666: Newton
Newton formulated Laws of Gravity
- 2 Sep 1666: Great Fire of London
Great Fire of London, after a drought beginning 27 June (2-6 Sep)
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| 35 | 1668 | - 1668: British East India Company
British East India Company obtains control of Bombay
- 1668: Reflecting telescope
Newton constructs reflecting telescope
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| 36 | 1669 | - 31 May 1669: Last entry in Pepys's diary
Last entry in Pepys's diary
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| 37 | 1670 | - 26 May 1670: Secret Treaty of Dover
King Charles II and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover. The Treaty was a treaty between England and France signed at Dover on June 1[1] in 1670. It required France to assist England in the king's aim that it would rejoin the Roman Catholic Church and England to assist France in its war of conquest against the Dutch Republic.
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| 38 | 1671 | - 9 May 1671: Crown Jewels
Thomas Blood caught stealing the Crown Jewels
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| 39 | 1672 | - 1672: High Court of Justiciary
High Court of Justiciary established in Scotland
- 1672: War with Holland
War with Holland (to 1674) - British Army increased to 10,000 men
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| 40 | 1673 | - 1673: First Test Act
First Test Act deprives British Catholics and Non-conformists of Public Office
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| 41 | 1674 | - 10 Nov 1674: Treaty of Westminster
Treaty of Westminster - Netherlands cedes New Netherlands (on the eastern
coast of North America) to Britain
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| 42 | 1675 | - 1675: Whig party
Beginning of Whig party under Shaftsbury
- 1675: Rebuilding of St Paul's
Rebuilding of St Paul's started by Wren (completed 1710)
- 4 Mar 1675: Astronomer Royal
John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England
- 10 Aug 1675: Royal Greenwich Observatory
Building of Royal Greenwich Observatory started
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| 43 | 1676 | - 1676: Compton Census
Compton Census, named after its initiator Henry Compton, Bishop of London, was intended to discover the number of Anglican conformists, Roman Catholic recusants and Protestant dissenters in England and Wales from enquiries made in individual parishes
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| 44 | 1677 | - 1677: Lee's Collection
Lee's Collection of Names of Merchants in London' published
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| 45 | 1678 | - 1678: Extension of Test Act
Extension of Test Act to peers
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| 46 | 1679 | - 1679: Tories
Tories first so named
- 27 May 1679: Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England - (later repealed from time to time)
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| 47 | 1680 | - 1680: London Penny Post
William Dockwra(y) begins his London Penny Post
- 1680: Dodo becomes extinct in
Dodo becomes extinct in Mauritius through over-hunting
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| 48 | 1681 | - 1681: Second Test Act
Second Test Act (against non-conformists) passed by Westminster Parliament
- 1681: Oil lighting
Oil lighting first used in London streets
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| 49 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
- 1682: Library of Advocates founded
Library of Advocates founded in Edinburgh - later National Library of Scotland
- 1682: Halley's Comet
Halley observes the comet which bears his name
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| 50 | 1683 | - 1683: Wild boar become extinct
Wild boar become extinct in Britain
- 6 Jun 1683: Ashmolean Museum opened
Ashmolean Museum opened at Oxford - first museum in Britain
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| 51 | 1685 | - 1685: James the Second
James the Second (1685-1689, died 1701) - Monmouth rebellion and battle of
Sedgemoor - British Army raised to 20,000 men
- 1685: Invasion of Scotland
Earl of Argyll's Invasion of Scotland
- 1685: Judge Jeffreys
Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
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| 52 | 1686 | - 1686: Release of all prisoners
Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
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| 53 | 1687 | - 4 Apr 1687: Declaration of Indulgence
James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists
- 5 Jul 1687: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'
Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' - written
in Latin
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| 54 | 1688 | - 1688: British Army
British Army raised to 40,000
- 1688: Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights limits the powers of the monarchy over parliament
- 1688: Hearth Tax abolished
Hearth Tax abolished
- 1688: Mutiny Act
Mutiny Act. This act made desertion, mutiny, and sedition of officers and soldiers crimes which were triable by court-martial and punishable by death.
- Feb 1688: Edward Lloyd's Coffee House opens
Edward Lloyd's Coffee House opens - later became Lloyd's of London
- Nov 1688: The Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates
- 5 Nov 1688: William of Orange
William of Orange lands at Torbay
- Dec 1688—28 Jul 1689: Siege of Londonderry
Siege of Londonderry (began Dec 1688; ended 28 Jul 1689)
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| 55 | 1689 | - 1689: Devonport dockyard established
Devonport naval dockyard established
- 13 Feb 1689: William III and Mary II
William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne (only William, however, has regal power)
- 12 Mar 1689: Deposed James VII & II flees to Ireland
Deposed James VII & II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
- 24 May 1689: Toleration Act
Toleration Act passed for Protestant non-conformists
- 27 Jul 1689: Battle of Killiecrankie
Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland - Jacobites defeated Government troops but
at high cost
- 16 Dec 1689: Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights passed by Parliament, ending King's divine right to raise taxes or wage war
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| 56 | 1690 | - 20 May 1690: Act of Grace
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving Roman Catholic followers of James II
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| 57 | 1692 | - 1692: Land Tax introduced
Land Tax introduced - originally designed as an annual tax on personal estate, public offices and land. For practical purposes, however, assessors tended to avoid assessing items of wealth other than landed property so that it became known as the Land Tax.
- 1692: Fench Invasion Plans
French intention to invade England came to nothing
- 13 Feb 1692: The massacre of Glencoe
The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and murders members of Clan McDonald
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| 58 | 1693 | - 4 Aug 1693: Champagne
Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pierre Perignon's invention of Champagne
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| 59 | 1694 | - 1694: National Debt
National Debt came into effect in England
- 1694: Stamp Duties
Stamp Duties introduced into Britain from Holland
- 1694: Mary II
Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
- 1694: Triennial Act
Triennial Act, new Parliamentary elections every three years
- 1694: Poll Tax
Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane (-1699)
- 27 Jul 1694: Bank of England founded
Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)
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| 60 | 1695 | - 1695: Freedom of Press
Freedom of Press in England granted
- 1695: Bank of Scotland
Bank of Scotland founded
- 1695: Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
- 1695: Start of Dissenters' lists
Start of Dissenters' lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish church - some were named 'Papist' and others 'Protestants'
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| 61 | 1697 | - 2 Dec 1697: Opening of St Paul's Cathedral
Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 62 | 1698 | - 1698: Steam Engine
Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
- 1698: Darien Expedition
Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
- 1698: Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers
Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
- 4 Jan 1698: Palace of Whitehall
Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
- 14 Nov 1698: Eddystone Lighthouse first lit
Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
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| 63 | 1700 | - 1700: Population
Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
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| 64 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement
Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
- 23 May 1701: Captain Kidd hanged
After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain
William Kidd hanged in London
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| 65 | 1702 | - 8 Mar 1702: Queen Anne
Anne Stuart becomes Queen
- 11 Mar 1702: The Daily Courant
First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
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| 66 | 1703 | - 4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
British take Gibraltar
- 24 Nov 1703—2 Dec 1703: Most violent storms of the millennium
Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England - about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November (Nov 24 - Dec 2)
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| 67 | 1704 | - 1704: Penal Code enacted
Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
- 13 Aug 1704: Battle of Blenheim
The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second Battle of Höchstädt), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.[1] Louis XIV of France sought to knock Emperor Leopold out of the war by seizing Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and gain a favourable peace settlement.
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| 68 | 1705 | - 1705: Thomas Newcomen
First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710
or 1711)
- 1705: Isaac Newton knighted
Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
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| 69 | 1706 | - 1706: First evening newspaper
First evening newspaper The Evening Post' issued in London
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| 70 | 1707 | - 16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland
Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English
Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March
- 1 May 1707: The Kingdom of Great Britain established
English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament -
The Kingdom of Great Britain established - largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
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| 71 | 1708 | - 1708: First Jacobite rising
First Jacobite rising in Scotland
- 1708: Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
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| 72 | 1709 | - 1709: Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
- 1709: First Copyright Act passed
First Copyright Act passed
- 1709: bread riots in Britain
Bad harvests throughout Europe - bread riots in Britain
- 2 Feb 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued
Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book
Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
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| 73 | 1710 | - 1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures
Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
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| 74 | 1711 | - 1711: Incorporation of South Sea Company
Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London.
The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt. The company was also granted a monopoly to trade with South America, hence its name.
- 11 Aug 1711: First meeting at Ascot
First race meeting at Ascot
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| 75 | 1712 | - 1712: Soap Tax
Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
- 1712: Last trial for witchcraft
Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
- 1712: Toleration Act passed
Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
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| 76 | 1713 | - 1713: 3,000 coffee houses in London
By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
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| 77 | 1714 | - 1714: Longitude Act
Longitude Act: prize of £20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of
determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
- 1714: Schism Act
Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
- 1714: Oath of Allegiance
Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
- 1 Aug 1714: Queen Anne Stuart dies
Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
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| 78 | 1715 | - 1715: Second Jacobite rebellion
Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
- 1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
Riot Act passed
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| 79 | 1716 | - 1716: Septennial Act
The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption - general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
- 1716: Frost Fair
Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
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| 80 | 1717 | - 1717: First Masonic Lodge
First Masonic Lodge opens in London
- 1717: Golden Guinea
Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
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| 81 | 1719 | - 1719: Third Jacobite rising
Third abortive Jacobite rising
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| 82 | 1720 | - 1720: South Sea Bubble
South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley - government assumes
control of National Debt
- 1720: Manufacturing towns
Manufacturing towns start to increase in population - rise of new wealth
- 1720: Wallpaper
Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
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| 83 | 1721 | - 2 Apr 1721: Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
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| 84 | 1722 | - 1722: Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
- 1722: Knatchbull's Act
The Workhouse Test Act also known as the General Act or Knatchbull's Act was poor relief legislation passed by the British government by Sir Edward Knatchbull in 1723. The "workhouse test" was that a person who wanted to receive poor relief had to enter a workhouse and undertake a set amount of work. The test was intended to prevent irresponsible claims on a parish's poor rate.
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| 85 | 1723 | - 1723: Excise tax
Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
- 1723: Waltham Black Acts
The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
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| 86 | 1724 | - 1724: Gin drinking
Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
- 1724: Longman's founded
Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
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| 87 | 1726 | - 1726: First circulating library
First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
- 1726: Invention of the chronometer
A marine chronometer is a clock that is precise and accurate enough to be used as a portable time standard; it can therefore be used to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. When first developed in the 18th century, it was a major technical achievement, as accurate knowledge of the time over a long sea voyage is necessary for navigation, lacking electronic or communications aids. The first true chronometer was the life work of one man, John Harrison, spanning 31 years of persistent experimentation and test that revolutionized naval navigation enabling the Age of Discovery and Colonialism to accelerate
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| 88 | 1727 | - 1727: Board of Manufacturers established
Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
- 11 Jun 1727: George I dies
George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
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| 89 | 1729 | - 9 Nov 1729: Treaty of Seville
Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain - Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
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