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1
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1642

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6 January: Last Christmas entertainment at court

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2
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1644

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Milton, Areopagitica

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3
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1645

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Milton, Poems

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4
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1649

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30th January: Execution of Charles I

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5
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1651

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Hobbes, Leviathan

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6
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1653

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16th December: Protectorate established

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7
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1658

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3rd September: Death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England

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8
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1659

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Collapse of the Protectorate

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9
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1660

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1st January: Pepys begins his Diary

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10
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1661

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23rd April: Coronation of Charles II

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11
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1664

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The printer Twyn executed for sedition

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12
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1665

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4th March: Second Anglo-Dutch War formally proclaimed

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13
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1666

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2nd September: Great Fire of London

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14
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1667

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21st July: Peace Treaty of Breda concluding Anglo-Dutch War

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15
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1668

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Dryden appointed Poet Laureate

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16
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1671

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Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

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17
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1672

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Declaration of Indulgence proferring religious freedom

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18
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1675

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Founding of Royal Observatory at Greenwhich

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19
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1676

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16th February: Charles II signs Secret Treaty with Louis XIV

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20
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1677

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Behn, The Rover

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21
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1678

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Oates and Tonge give evidence of a Popish Plot to kill Charles II and crown the Duke of York, Charles’s Roman Catholic brother

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22
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1680

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15th November: Second Bill of Exclusion, aimed at preventing the succession of James, Duke of York to the throne, defeated in the Lords.

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23
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1681

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24th November: Shaftesbury acquitted on charges of treason

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24
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1683

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Russell and Sydney executed for treason

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25
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1686

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6th February: Death of Charles II

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26
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1687

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4th April: James Issues a Declaration of Indulgence

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27
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1688

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5th November: William of Orange lands at Torbay

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28
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1689

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13th February: The crown is offered to William of Orange and Mary

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29
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1690

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Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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30
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1694

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Bank of England established

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31
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1695

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Congreve, Love for Love

32
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1697

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10th September: Treaty of Ryswick concluding Nine Years War

33
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1700

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Congreve, The Way of the World

34
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1701

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12th June: Act of Settlement establishing the Hanoverian succession

35
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1702

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8th March: Death of William III

36
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1704

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2nd August: Battle of Blenheim

37
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1705

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Steele, The Tender Husband

38
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1707

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1st May: The Proclamation of Union with Scotland

39
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1709

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The Copyright Act

40
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1710

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Sacheverill trial 27th February-23rd March

41
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1711

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Handel, Rinaldo

42
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1713

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31st March: Treaty of Utrecht

43
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1714

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1st August: Death of Queen Anne

44
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1715

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Jacobite rising

45
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1716

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26th April: Septennial Act extending the life of parliaments to seven years

46
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1719

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Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

47
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1720

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South Sea investment scheme (bubble) collapses – 1st September-14th October

48
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1722

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Defoe, Moll Flanders

49
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1723

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27th May: Waltham Black Act creating fifty new capital offence sincluding poaching hares and fish

50
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1725

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Pope’s edition, The Works of Shakespeare

51
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1726

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Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

52
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1727

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11th June: Death of George I

53
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1728

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Gay, Beggar’s Opera

54
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1729

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Pope, Dunciad Variorum

55
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1730

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Thomson, The Seasons

56
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1732

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Bentley, ed. Paradise Lost

57
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1733

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Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties

58
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1737

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24th June: Stage Licensing Act

59
Q

1738

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Wesley’s ‘conversion’

60
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1740

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War of Austrian Succession

61
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1741

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Fielding, Shamela

62
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1742

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11th February: Walpole resigns as Prime Minister

63
Q

1744

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Formal declaration of war with France

64
Q

1745

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18th March: Death of Walpole

65
Q

1747

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Richardson, Clarissa

66
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1749

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Fielding, Tom Jones

67
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1751

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Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

68
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1752

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Adoption of the Gregorian (New Style) calendar

69
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1753

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The Jewish Naturalization Bill

70
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1755

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Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language

71
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1758

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Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

72
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1760

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25th October: Death of George II, Coronation of George III (22nd September 1761)

73
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1765

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Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

74
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1768

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Founding of the Royal Academy

75
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1776

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American Declaration of Independence

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