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It lasted from 1665 to 1666 and it was the last great bubonic plague epidemics in Europe.
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It lasted 5 days, it is said to have started in a bakery and as a result most of the City of London was destroyed.
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William of Orange and his wife (and heir to the English throne) Mary II of England reigned jointly.
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The Crown now had to reign with the Parliament, and religious dissenters were given some freedom of religion. In 1701 the Act of Settlement determined that only a Protestant would be allowed to ascend to the English throne from that moment onward.
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He was the first Hanoverian king and spoke no English and knew nothing of English customs and traditions, having grown up in Germany. He ascended to the throne because he was the first Protestant in the line of succession.
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