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Date |
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| 1 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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| 2 | 1702 | - 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
- 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
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| 3 | 1705 | - 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine
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| 4 | 1707 | - 1707: Kingdom of Great Britain Established English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament.
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| 5 | 1708 | - 1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1714 | - 1714: George I King of England 1714 - 1727
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| 8 | 1719 | - 1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 1725 | |
| 11 | 1727 | - 1727: George II King of England 1727 - 1760
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| 12 | 1729 | - 1729: Methodists formed at Oxford
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| 13 | 1730 | |
| 14 | 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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| 15 | 1738 | - 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 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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| 19 | 1745 | - 1745: Charles Edward Stuart the young pretender to the English throne lands in Scotalnd Defeated at Culloden 1746
- 1745: Jacobite rebellion in Scotland - Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) lands in the western Highlands - raises support among Episcopalian and Catholic clans - The Pretender's army invades Perth, Edinburgh, and England as far as Derby
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| 20 | 1746 | - 1746: April 17 1746 Battle of Culloden. The Jacobite rebellion crushed for all time.
- 1746: Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain - 5,000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited. Many Scots exiled to Jamaica
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| 21 | 1752 | - 1752: Year standardised to end Dec 31 (previously Mar 24) Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England
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| 22 | 1754 | - 1754: Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
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| 23 | 1756 | - 1756: The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
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| 24 | 1757 | - 1757: India: The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassy - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive - The foundation laid for the Empire of India
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| 25 | 1758 | - 1758: India stops being merely a commercial venture - England begins dominating it politically - The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade
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| 26 | 1759 | - 1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
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1701 - 1759 (58 years)