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Since when did England had been without a king

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30 Jan 1649

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When did Oliver Cromwell die

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1658

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When did Charles 2 become King

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1660

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When did the Bubonic Plague hit London?

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1665

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When to When did Samuel Pepys wrote his diary

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1660-1669

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When did the Great Plague decided to die down?

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December 1665

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When did the great fire of London Start?

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2 September 1666

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When was a new city taking shape in London

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1676

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When did the “Fire Office” company insurance came up

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1680

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When was the plot to get rid of King James 2

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Summer of 1688

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When did King Charles 2 died

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1685

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When did William and Mary became joint rulers

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1689

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When did James 2 fled to france

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1688

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When did the Battle of Boyne occur

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1690

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When did Queen Mary die of Smallpox

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1694

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When wass the Act of Union passed

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1707

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When did King William asked all clans to swear an oath of loyalty to him

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1692

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When did King William die

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1702

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When did Queen Anne die

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1714

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18
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When did James Francis landed in Peterhead , Scotland and gathered an army

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1715

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When did King George I became King of Great Britain

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1 August 1714

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When was the Act of Settlement

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1701

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When was the battle of Culloden

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April 1746

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French army surgeon Ambroise Pare used bandages and soothing ointments to treat wounds and prevent infection

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1536

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Flushing toilet invented by Sir John Harington

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1596

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An Intalian,Galileo Galilei made the first practical telescope and saw [planets such as Mars for the first time

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1609

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English doctor William Harvey proved that the heart is a pump and circulates blood around the body

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1628

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British politician and scientist Francis Bacon developed a new way of carrying out sceintific experiments

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1620

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First tea, imported from China was sold in Britain

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1657

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Christopher Wren was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College,London.Invented an instrutment that wrote in the dark, a weather clock and a new language for the death.

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1657

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Isaac Newton discovered a force of gravity that pulls an object towards the ground

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1686

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Irish-born Robert Boyle proved that air is essential for both breathing and burning

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1661

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The Royal Society was formed,backed by King Charles II.This group of scientists met regulary to discuss their ideas and experiments.Involved Robert Boyle,Samuel Pepys,Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren

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1662

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Philosopher John Locke wrote many books and essays about the human mind

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1690

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World’s first daily newspaper

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1702

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented with smallpox inoculations.

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1717

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George I,Spoke no Enlglish and left Parliament alone to rule the country

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1714-1727

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George II

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1727-1760

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George III, Suffed from periods of mental illness

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1760-1820

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George IV

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1820-1830

37
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The Flying Shuttle

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1733

38
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The Spinning Jenny

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1764

39
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When did Richard Arkwright invented a machine called the ‘Spinning Frame’

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1769

40
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When was Richard Arkwright’s frst factory opened at cromford in Derbyshire

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1771

41
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When did James Watt and Matthew Boulton developed a new kind of steam engine

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1768

42
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When was Sadler’s Report published

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1833

43
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First Turnpike Trust to be set up

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1706

44
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1000 turnpike trusts improving over 32000km of roads

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1830

45
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The first canal which was 11km long was completed in?

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1761

46
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The first Canal which was built by the Duke of Bridgewater in when?

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1759

47
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James Watt information

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Born in Greenock,Scotland, in 1736
in 1764,Watt repaired an old steam aengine
in 1781,Watt designed a new steam engine that could turn a wheel
By 1800, Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton factory in Birmingham was producing some of the world’s finest engines.

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George Stephenson information

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Born in Wylam,Northumberland in 1781
In 1814,he designed his first steam locomotive,The Blucher
in 1815 he produced a safety lamp for miners which could be used safely in area s where methane gas had collected

in 1821, he was given the job of designing the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It opened in 1825 using his locomotives

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Micheal Faraday information

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Born in Newington in 1791
in 1831, He discovered how to generate electricity
His generator worked on the same basic principle that electric power stations work on today

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Ada Lovelace information

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Born in 1815
Worked on how the machien could be programmed witha code to calculate numbers

51
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Isambard Kingdom Brunelin information

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Born in Portsmouth in 1806
In 1829, he designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
In 1833, He designed the Great Western Railway

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Henry Bessemer information

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Born near Hitchin,Hertfordshire in 1813

designed a machine for putting perforations on postage stamps and a new method of producing glass

Invented a converter a machine for turning iron into steel.

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Alexander Graham Bell information

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Born in Edinburgh,Scotland in 1847

worked all his lofe on making eletrical hearing aids for deaf people, his wife was deaf

the idea for a telephone a machine that converts speech into an electrical signal that travels down a wire then turned back into sound, came to him while working on designs to help deaf people

He invented the telephone in 1876

54
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When was Chadwick’s report published

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1842

55
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When was The Public Health Act passed

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1848

56
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When was Chadwick’s Report published

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1842

57
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When did The British first got involved in slave trade

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1562

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