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Date |
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| 1 | 1673 | - 1673: Test Act was passed to try to help differentiate between Anglicans and Catholics. Public officeholders were required to swear an oath of allegiance (which recognised the monarch as the head of the Church of England) and accept communion by Protestant form
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| 2 | 1675 | - 1675: Whig party formed under Shaftsbury
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| 3 | 1679 | - 1679: Tories first named
- 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England
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| 4 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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| 5 | 1684 | - 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
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| 6 | 1685 | - 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
- 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
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| 7 | 1688 | - 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
- 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
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| 8 | 1689 | - 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
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| 9 | 1694 | - 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
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| 10 | 1695 | - 1695: Freedom of Press in England
- 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
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| 11 | 1696 | - 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
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| 12 | 1697 | - 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 13 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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| 14 | 1702 | - 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
- 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
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| 15 | 1705 | - 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine
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| 16 | 1707 | - 1707: Kingdom of Great Britain Established English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament.
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| 17 | 1708 | - 1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
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| 18 | 1712 | - 1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
- 1712: Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession
- 1712: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender
- 1712: First Prime Minister Robert Walpole - 1742 (Whig)
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| 19 | 1714 | - 1714: George I King of England 1714 - 1727
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| 20 | 1719 | - 1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
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| 21 | 1723 | - 1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching
- 1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
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| 22 | 1725 | |
| 23 | 1727 | - 1727: George II King of England 1727 - 1760
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1672 - 1727 (54 years)