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1746 BCE
Charles Edward defeated at Culloden
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Period: 1740 BCE to 1750 BCE
European Wars
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Period: 1727 BCE to 1760 BCE
George II of Hanover
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1719 BCE
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe - fictional prose
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Period: 1714 BCE to
George I of Hanover
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1700 BCE
William Congreve - The way of the world - comedy of manners
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1667 BCE
John Milton - Paradise Lost
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1649 BCE
Charles' I execution and the Commonwealth
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1642 BCE
Theatres closed by the Parliament
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Period: 1640 BCE to 1660 BCE
Long Parliament
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1628 BCE
The Petition of Rights
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1625 BCE
Charles I
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1625 BCE
Francis Bacon - Essays
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1605 BCE
The Gunpowder Plot
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Civil War
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The Parliament Army broke the Royalists'
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Monarchy restored
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James II imposed the Catholic religion
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The Bloodless Revolution or the Glorious Revolution
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Bill of Rights
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Battle of Boyne
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Only Protestant heirs could ascend to the throne, Catholic heirs excluded
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Jonathan Swift - A tale of a tub - satire
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With the Act of Union Scottish and English Parliament founded the United Kingdom
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Richardson - Pamela - psychological and epistolary novel