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   Date  Event(s)
1 1675 
  • Rebuilding of St Paul's started by Wren
2 1697 
  • 2 Dec 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
3 1698 
  • Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
  • Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
  • Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers repealed after five years
  • 4 Jan 1698: Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
  • 14 Nov 1698: Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
4 1700 
  • Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
5 1701 
  • Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
  • 23 May 1701: After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd hanged in London
6 1702 
  • 8 Mar 1702: Anne Stuart becomes Queen
  • 11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
7 1703 
  • 4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
  • 24 Nov 1703—2 Dec 1703: Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November
8 1704 
  • Penal Code enacted Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 13 Aug 1704: Battle of Blenheim
9 1705 
  • First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710 or 1711)
  • Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
10 1706 
  • First evening newspaper "The Evening Post" issued in London
11 1707 
  • 16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading privileges Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March
  • 1 May 1707: English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament The Kingdom of Great Britain established - largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
12 1708 
  • First Jacobite rising in Scotland
  • Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
13 1709 
  • Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
  • First Copyright Act pass
  • Bad harvests throughout Europe bread riots in Britain
  • 2 Feb 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
14 1710 
  • Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
15 1711 
  • Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
  • 11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
16 1712 
  • Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
  • Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
  • Toleration Act passed first relief to non-Anglicans
17 1713 
  • By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
18 1714 
  • Longitude Act: prize of £20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
  • Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
  • Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
  • 1 Aug 1714: Queen Anne Stuart dies George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
19 1715 
  • Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
  • 1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
20 1716 
  • The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
  • Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
21 1717 
  • First Masonic Lodge opens in London
  • Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
22 1719 
  • Third abortive Jacobite rising
23 1720 
  • South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley government assumes control of National Debt
  • Manufacturing towns start to increase in population rise of new wealth
  • Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
24 1721 
  • 2 Apr 1721: Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
25 1722 
  • Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
  • Knatchbull's Act, poor laws
26 1723 
  • Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
  • The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
  • The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
27 1724 
  • Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
  • Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
28 1726 
  • First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
  • Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
29 1727 
  • Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
  • 11 Jun 1727: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
30 1729 
  • 9 Nov 1729: Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain - Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
31 1730 
  • Irish famine
32 1731 
  • Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
  • Invention of sextant by John Hadley
33 1732 
  • 7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
34 1733 
  • Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
  • Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
  • John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
35 1734 
  • Kent's Directory published
36 1737 
  • Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
37 1738 
  • 24 May 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
38 1739 
  • Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
  • 7 Apr 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
  • 23 Oct 1739: War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain
39 1741 
  • Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers
40 1742 
  • England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
41 1743 
  • 16 Jun 1743: (June 27 in Gregorian calendar): Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
42 1744 
  • Tune 'God Save the King' makes its appearance
43 1745 
  • Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
  • 19 Aug 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) lands in the western Highlands - raises support among Episcopalian and Catholic clans - The Pretender's army invades Perth, Edinburgh, and England as far as Derby
44 1746 
  • 16 Apr 1746: Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain - 5,000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited
45 1747 
  • Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
  • Act for Pacification of the Highlands
46 1749 
  • 27 Apr 1749: First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (in Green Park, London)
47 1750 
  • Feb 1750: Series of earthquakes in London and the Home Counties cause panic with predictions of an apocalypse (Feb/Mar)
  • 16 Nov 1750: Original Westminster Bridge opened (replaced in 1862 due to subsidence)
  

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