All Dates

Question 1

1642

Answer 1

6 January: Last Christmas entertainment at court

Question 2

1644

Answer 2

Milton, Areopagitica

Question 3

1645

Answer 3

Milton, Poems

Question 4

1649

Answer 4

30th January: Execution of Charles I

Question 5

1651

Answer 5

Hobbes, Leviathan

Question 6

1653

Answer 6

16th December: Protectorate established

Question 7

1658

Answer 7

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

Question 8

1659

Answer 8

Collapse of the Protectorate

Question 9

1660

Answer 9

1st January: Pepys begins his Diary

Question 10

1661

Answer 10

23rd April: Coronation of Charles II

Question 11

1664

Answer 11

The printer Twyn executed for sedition

Question 12

1665

Answer 12

4th March: Second Anglo-Dutch War formally proclaimed

Question 13

1666

Answer 13

2nd September: Great Fire of London

Question 14

1667

Answer 14

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

Question 15

1668

Answer 15

Dryden appointed Poet Laureate

Question 16

1671

Answer 16

Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

Question 17

1672

Answer 17

Declaration of Indulgence proferring religious freedom

Question 18

1675

Answer 18

Founding of Royal Observatory at Greenwhich

Question 19

1676

Answer 19

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

Question 20

1677

Answer 20

Behn, The Rover

Question 21

1678

Answer 21

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

Question 22

1680

Answer 22

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

Question 23

1681

Answer 23

24th November: Shaftesbury acquitted on charges of treason

Question 24

1683

Answer 24

Russell and Sydney executed for treason

Question 25

1686

Answer 25

6th February: Death of Charles II

Question 26

1687

Answer 26

4th April: James Issues a Declaration of Indulgence

Question 27

1688

Answer 27

5th November: William of Orange lands at Torbay

Question 28

1689

Answer 28

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

Question 29

1690

Answer 29

Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Question 30

1694

Answer 30

Bank of England established

Question 31

1695

Answer 31

Congreve, Love for Love

Question 32

1697

Answer 32

10th September: Treaty of Ryswick concluding Nine Years War

Question 33

1700

Answer 33

Congreve, The Way of the World

Question 34

1701

Answer 34

12th June: Act of Settlement establishing the Hanoverian succession

Question 35

1702

Answer 35

8th March: Death of William III

Question 36

1704

Answer 36

2nd August: Battle of Blenheim

Question 37

1705

Answer 37

Steele, The Tender Husband

Question 38

1707

Answer 38

1st May: The Proclamation of Union with Scotland

Question 39

1709

Answer 39

The Copyright Act

Question 40

1710

Answer 40

Sacheverill trial 27th February-23rd March

Question 41

1711

Answer 41

Handel, Rinaldo

Question 42

1713

Answer 42

31st March: Treaty of Utrecht

Question 43

1714

Answer 43

1st August: Death of Queen Anne

Question 44

1715

Answer 44

Jacobite rising

Question 45

1716

Answer 45

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

Question 46

1719

Answer 46

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Question 47

1720

Answer 47

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

Question 48

1722

Answer 48

Defoe, Moll Flanders

Question 49

1723

Answer 49

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

Question 50

1725

Answer 50

Pope’s edition, The Works of Shakespeare

Question 51

1726

Answer 51

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Question 52

1727

Answer 52

11th June: Death of George I

Question 53

1728

Answer 53

Gay, Beggar’s Opera

Question 54

1729

Answer 54

Pope, Dunciad Variorum

Question 55

1730

Answer 55

Thomson, The Seasons

Question 56

1732

Answer 56

Bentley, ed. Paradise Lost

Question 57

1733

Answer 57

Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties

Question 58

1737

Answer 58

24th June: Stage Licensing Act

Question 59

1738

Answer 59

Wesley’s ‘conversion’

Question 60

1740

Answer 60

War of Austrian Succession

Question 61

1741

Answer 61

Fielding, Shamela

Question 62

1742

Answer 62

11th February: Walpole resigns as Prime Minister

Question 63

1744

Answer 63

Formal declaration of war with France

Question 64

1745

Answer 64

18th March: Death of Walpole

Question 65

1747

Answer 65

Richardson, Clarissa

Question 66

1749

Answer 66

Fielding, Tom Jones

Question 67

1751

Answer 67

Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Question 68

1752

Answer 68

Adoption of the Gregorian (New Style) calendar

Question 69

1753

Answer 69

The Jewish Naturalization Bill

Question 70

1755

Answer 70

Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language

Question 71

1758

Answer 71

Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Question 72

1760

Answer 72

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

Question 73

1765

Answer 73

Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Question 74

1768

Answer 74

Founding of the Royal Academy

Question 75

1776

Answer 75

American Declaration of Independence