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Date |
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| 1 | 1679 | - 1679: Tories first named
- 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England
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| 2 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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| 3 | 1684 | - 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
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| 4 | 1685 | - 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
- 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
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| 5 | 1688 | - 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
- 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
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| 6 | 1689 | - 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
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| 7 | 1694 | - 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
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| 8 | 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- 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
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| 9 | 1696 | - 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
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| 10 | 1697 | - 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 11 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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| 12 | 1702 | - 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
- 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
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| 13 | 1705 | - 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine
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| 14 | 1707 | - 1707: Kingdom of Great Britain Established English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament.
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| 15 | 1708 | - 1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 1714 | - 1714: George I King of England 1714 - 1727
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| 18 | 1719 | - 1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 1725 | |
| 21 | 1727 | - 1727: George II King of England 1727 - 1760
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| 22 | 1729 | - 1729: Methodists formed at Oxford
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| 23 | 1730 | |
| 24 | 1733 | - 1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
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| 25 | 1738 | - 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
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| 26 | 1741 | - 1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - The Morovians later were instrumental in converting and educating black slaves in the West Indies
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| 27 | 1742 | - 1742: England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
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| 28 | 1743 | - 1743: Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle - the Kettle Drums were captured by the Third King's Own Dragoon Guards
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Abt 1678 - 1744 (66 years)