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Brit: 1688-1798 Flashcards

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When is the Glorious Revolution? What king is exiled and who replaces him?

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1688-89; James II; his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange

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What year is Behn’s Oroonoko published?

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1688

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What year does John Locke publish An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?

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1690

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What year does William Congreve’s The Way of the World premiere?

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1700

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When does Mary Astell publish Some Reflections upon Marriage?

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1700

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When does the War of Spanish Succession begin?

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1702 (the year that William III dies and is succeeded by Anne)

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What year does William III die? He is succeeded by?

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1702; Anne, Protestant daughter of James II

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What year does Jonathan Swift publish A Tale of a Tub?

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1704

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What year does Newton publish Opticks?

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1704

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What year is the Act of Union with Scotland?

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1707

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In the 18th century, what year do the Tories first take power in Parliament?

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1710

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What year does Alexander Pope publish An Essay on Criticism?

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1711

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What years is Addison and Steele’s “Spectator” running?

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1711-12, 1714

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What year is the Treaty of Utrecht and what war does it end?

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1713; War of the Spanish Succession

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What year does Queen Anne die? She is succeeded by whom, and what dynasty does this inaugurate?

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1714; George I, great-grandson of James I); Hanover

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What party gains control of Parliament the year Queen Anne dies? What year is that?

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Whigs; 1714

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What years is Lady Mary Montagu writing her letters from Turkey?

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1716-18

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What year does Pope produce the final version of The Rape of the Lock?

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1717

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What year does Daniel Defoe write Robinson Crusoe?

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1719

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When is Pope alive?

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1688-1784

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When is Daniel Defoe alive?

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1660-1731

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When does the South Sea Bubble collapse?

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1720

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What year does Robert Walpole come to power?

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1721

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What year does Swift publish Gulliver’s Travels?

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1726

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What year does George I die? He is succeeded by?

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1727; George II

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What year does John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera premiere?

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1728

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What year is Pope’s An Essay on Man published?

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1733

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What year does the Licensing Act censor the stage?

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1737

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What year is Samuel Richardson’s Pamela published?

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1740

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What year is Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews published?

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1742

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What year does Walpole resign?

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1742

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What year does Pope produce the final version of The Dunciad?

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1743

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What year does William Hogarth create Marriage A-la-Mode?

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1743

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What year is William Collins’s Odes published?

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1746

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What year does Charles Edward Stuart’s defeat at Culloden end the last Jacobite rebellion?

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1746

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What year is Richardson’s Clarissa published?

37
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What year is Fielding’s Tom Jones published?

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What year does Thomas Gray write “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?

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What year does Robert Clive seize Arcot? This is the prelude to what?

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1751; English control of India

40
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The seizure of Arcot was a prelude to English control of India. Who accomplished this seizure and in what year?

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Robert Clive; 1751

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What year does Samuel Johnson produce his Dictionary?

42
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When does the Seven Years’ War begin?

43
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What year is Johnson’s Rasselas published?

44
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What year is Voltaire’s Candide published?

45
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What year does James Wolfe’s capture of Quebec ensure British control of Canada?

46
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During what years did Sterne’s Tristram Shandy appear in installments?

47
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What year does George III succeed to the throne?

48
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What year does Johnson publish his edition of Shakespeare?

49
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What year does Captain James Cook make his voyages to Australia and New Zealand?

50
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What year is Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village” published?

51
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What does Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village” condemn?

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Rural depopulation and excessive pursuit of wealth

52
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When is the American Revolution?

53
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What year does James Watt first produce his steam engines, an improvement on Newcomen’s steam engines?

54
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What year is Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations published?

55
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What year is Frances Burney’s Evelina published?

56
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When are Johnson’s Lives of the Poets appearing?

57
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When are London’s Gordon Riots?

58
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What year is George Crabbe’s The Village published?

59
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What year does William Pitt become prime minister?

60
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What year is William Cowper’s The Task published?

61
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When do Anna Letitia Aikin’s (later Barbauld) “Poems” appear?

62
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What year was J.W. von Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” published?

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What year does Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations appear?

64
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When were Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, and J.C. Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers published?

65
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What year was Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets published?

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What year were William Beckford’s Vathek and Robert Burns’ Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published?

67
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When were Jeremy Bentham’s Principles of Morals and Legislation and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence published?

68
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What year were Joanna Baillie’s Poems, Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France published?

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What year did William Gilpin’s Observations of the River Wye, Thomas Paine’s Rights on Man, and Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest get published?

70
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When was Mary Wollstoncraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published?

71
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William Godwin published Political Justice in…?

72
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What year were Blake’s Songs of Experience, Godwin’s Caleb Williams, and Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho published?

73
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American War of Independence

74
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When were the Gordon Riots in London?

75
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When did William Pitt become prime minister? How long did he serve? (years)

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1783; 1783-1801 and again in 1804-1806.

76
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When did Samuel Johnson die?

77
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When was the Fall of the Bastille? (Beginning of the French Revolution.)

78
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W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni appeared in which year?

79
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Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in which year?

80
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J.M.W. Turner first exhibits at the Royal Academy in…

81
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When was the Revolution in Santo Domingo (modern Haiti)?

82
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Where were the September Massacres in Paris?

83
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First gaslights appeared in Britain in…

84
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When was the Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?

85
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Which year does France declare war against Britain? (And then Britain against France)?

86
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Reign of Terror Year

87
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When was the fall of Robespeirre/ trials for high treason of members of the London Corresponding Society?

88
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When does Pitt’s Gagging Acts suppress freedom of speech and assembly in Britain?

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