 1668 - 1701 (33 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1670 | - 1670: Hudson's Bay Company established - early settlers in Canada
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1675 | - 1675: Whig party formed under Shaftsbury
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| 4 | 1679 | - 1679: Tories first named
- 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England
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| 5 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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| 6 | 1684 | - 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
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| 7 | 1685 | - 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
- 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
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| 8 | 1688 | - 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
- 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
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| 9 | 1689 | - 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
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| 10 | 1694 | - 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
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| 11 | 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- 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
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| 12 | 1696 | - 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
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| 13 | 1697 | - 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 14 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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