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1
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6 January: Last Christmas entertainment at court

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1642

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22nd August: beginning of the Civil Wars

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1642

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2nd September: Closing of the London theatres

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1642

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Browne, Religio Medici; Hobbes, De Cive (Paris)

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1642

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Milton, Areopagitica

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1644

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Milton, Poems

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1645

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7
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30th January: Execution of Charles I

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1649

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8
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17th March: An Act for Abolishing the kingly office in England

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1649

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9
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19th May: Commonwealth Proclaimed

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1649

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10
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Milton, Eikonoklastes

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1649

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11
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Hobbes, Leviathan

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1651

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12
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Marvell writes Upon Appleton House

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1651

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13
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16th December: Protectorate established

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1653

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14
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Cavendish, Poems and Fancies

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1653

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15
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3rd September: Death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England

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1658

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16
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Collapse of the Protectorate

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1659

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17
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Baxter, Holy Commonwealth; Davenant, Siege of Rhodes

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1659

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18
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1st January: Pepys begins his Diary

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1660

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19
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29th May: Charles Stuart enters London on his thirtieth birthday

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1660

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20
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28th November: First meeting of the Royal Society

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1660

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21
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23rd April: Coronation of Charles II

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1661

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22
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The printer Twyn executed for sedition

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1664

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23
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Dryden and Howard, The Indian Queen

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1664

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24
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4th March: Second Anglo-Dutch War formally proclaimed

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1665

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25
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April – December: The Great Plague

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1665

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26
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Hooke, Micrographia

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1665

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27
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2nd September: Great Fire of London

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1666

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28
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21st July: Peace Treaty of Breda concluding Anglo-Dutch War

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1667

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29
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Dryden, Annus Mirabilis

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1667

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30
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Marvell, Last Instructions

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1667

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31
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Milton, Paradise Lost

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1667

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32
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Dryden appointed Poet Laureate

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1668

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33
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Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

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1668

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34
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Etherage, She Would If She Could

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1668

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35
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Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

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1671

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36
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Milton, Paradise Regained… To which is added Samson Agonistes

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1671

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37
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Declaration of Indulgence proferring religious freedom

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1672

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38
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Founding of Royal Observatory at Greenwhich

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1675

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39
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Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

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1675

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40
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Rochester, Satyr Against Mankind;

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1675

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41
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Wycherley, The Country Wife

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1675

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42
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16th February: Charles II signs Secret Treaty with Louis XIV

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1676

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43
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Etherege, The Man of Mode

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1676

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44
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Wycherley, The Plain- Dealer

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1676

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45
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Behn, The Rover

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1677

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46
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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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1678

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47
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Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress

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1678

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48
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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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1680

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49
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Burnet, The Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester

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1680

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50
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Rochester, Poems

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1680

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51
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24th November: Shaftesbury acquitted on charges of treason

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1681

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52
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Russell and Sydney executed for treason

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1683

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53
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6th February: Death of Charles II

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1686

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54
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23rd April: Coronation of James II

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1686

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55
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15th July: Duke of Monmouth executed after raising arms in rebellion against James II

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1686

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56
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Killigrew, Poems

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1686

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57
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4th April: James Issues a Declaration of Indulgence

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1687

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58
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Newton, Principia Mathematica

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1687

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59
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5th November: William of Orange lands at Torbay

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1688

60
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24th December: James II flees to France

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1688

61
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13th February: The crown is offered to William of Orange and Mary

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1689

62
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24th May: Toleration Act

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1689

63
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1st July: Battle of the Boyne

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1689

64
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Dryden, Don Sebastian

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1689

65
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Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration

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1689

66
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Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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1690

67
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Bank of England established

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1694

68
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28th December: Death of Queeen Mary

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1694

69
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Congreve, Love for Love

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1695

70
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Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity

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1695

71
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Southerne, Oroonoko

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1695

72
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10th September: Treaty of Ryswick concluding Nine Years War

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1697

73
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Defoe, An Essay Upon Projects

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1697

74
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Dryden, The Works of Virgil

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1697

75
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Congreve, The Way of the World

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1700

76
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Defoe, The Pacificator

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1700

77
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12th June: Act of Settlement establishing the Hanoverian succession

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1701

78
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Defoe, The True-Born Englishman

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1701

79
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8th March: Death of William III

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1702

80
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23rd April: Coronation of Queen Anne

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1702

81
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The Daily Courant begins publication and runs until 1735

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1702

82
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2nd August: Battle of Blenheim

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1704

83
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Newton, Optics

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1704

84
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Swift, Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books

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1704

85
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Steele, The Tender Husband

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1705

86
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1st May: The Proclamation of Union with Scotland

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1707

87
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The Copyright Act

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1709

88
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Act for the Encouragement of Learning

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1709

89
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Berkeley, New Theory of Vision

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1709

90
Q

Steele, The Tatler begins and runs until 1711

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1709

91
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Sacheverill trial 27th February-23rd March

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1710

92
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Handel, Rinaldo

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1711

93
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Pope, Essay on Criticism; The Spectator

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1711

94
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31st March: Treaty of Utrecht

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1713

95
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1st August: Death of Queen Anne

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1714

96
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20th October: Coronation of George I

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1714

97
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Gay, Shepherd’s Week

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1714

98
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Mandeville, Fable of the Bees

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1714

99
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Pope, Rape of the Lock

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1714

100
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Jacobite rising

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1715

101
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26th April: Septennial Act extending the life of parliaments to seven years

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1716

102
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Montagu, Town Eclogues, Court Poems

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1716

103
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Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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1719

104
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South Sea investment scheme (bubble) collapses – 1st September-14th October

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1720

105
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Defoe, Moll Flanders

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1722

106
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Steele, The Conscious Lovers

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1722

107
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27th May: Waltham Black Act creating fifty new capital offence sincluding poaching hares and fish

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1723

108
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Pope’s edition, The Works of Shakespeare

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1725

109
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Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

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1726

110
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11th June: Death of George I

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1727

111
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11th October: Coronation of George II

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1727

112
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Gay, Beggar’s Opera

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1728

113
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Pope, Dunciad Variorum

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1729

114
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Swift, Modest Proposal

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1729

115
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Thomson, The Seasons

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1730

116
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Bentley, ed. Paradise Lost

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1732

117
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Fielding, Covent Garden Tragedy

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1732

118
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Hogarth, A Harlot’s Progress

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1732

119
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Mandeville, Origin of Honour

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1732

120
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Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties

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1733

121
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Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress

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1733

122
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Wortley Montagu and Lord Hervey, Verses Addressed to the Imitator of Horace

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1733

123
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24th June: Stage Licensing Act

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1737

124
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Wesley’s ‘conversion’

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1738

125
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War of Austrian Succession

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1740

126
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Richardson, Pamela

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1740

127
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Fielding, Shamela

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1741

128
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Hume, Essays, Moral and Political

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1741

129
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11th February: Walpole resigns as Prime Minister

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1742

130
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Fielding, Joseph Andrews

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1742

131
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Formal declaration of war with France

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1744

132
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18th March: Death of Walpole

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1745

133
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23rd July: Landing of the Young Pretender in Scotland

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1745

134
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Richardson, Clarissa

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1747

135
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Fielding, Tom Jones

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1749

136
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Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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1751

137
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Adoption of the Gregorian (New Style) calendar

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1752

138
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The Jewish Naturalization Bill

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1753

139
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Passed 22nd May; Royal Assent 7th June, Repealed 20th December

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1753

140
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Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language

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1755

141
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Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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1758

142
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25th October: Death of George II, Coronation of George III (22nd September 1761)

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1760

143
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Sterne, Tristram Shandy

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1760

144
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Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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1765

145
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Founding of the Royal Academy

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1768

146
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American Declaration of Independence

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1776

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