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1710 Fifty New Church Act
Queen Anne intended for the 1710 Fifty New Church Act of 1710 to provide 50 new churches for the expanding population of London. However, only 12 churches were built under the act, including all of Hawksmoor's London churches. -
Addison and Steele Establish The Spectator
Addison and Steele had attended the Charterhouse school and Oxford together. Steele dropped out after a year to pursue a military career and the two lost touch. Later, Addison recognized the syle of Steele's essays in The Tatler and their friendship resumed. After The Tatler suspended publication, Addison and Steele launched The Spectator on March 1, 1711. The editorial positions of the paper presented slightly different, opposing points of view. -
Occasional Conformity Bill
In 1711, only those who took Anglican Communion could hold offices in Britain. The Occasional Conformity Bill stipulated that taking Communion only once each year was insufficient to qualify for such offices. Its purpose was to prevent Nonconformists and Roman Catholics from taking "occasional" communion in the Church of England and still being eligible for public office. Although the High Church Anglicans and Tories had finally succeeded after 9 years, the results never materialized. -
Stamp Act
Responding to an appeal from Queen Anne to curb the licentiousness of the press, England's Parliament enacted a tax of one-half cent per sheet on periodical publications. The tax became an important source of revenue and was expanded several times during the eighteenth century. As a vehicle for censorship, it was largely ineffective. -
Treaty of Utrecht
The Treaty of Utrecht was a peace agreement between Great Britain and France, concluding Britain's participation in the War of the Spainish Succession. It revised territorial boundaries in North America and Europe, settled dynastic issues, and introduced trade patterns that resulted in Britain's rise to world-power status. The war itself would not end until Austria also negotiated peace in the Treaties of Rastatt and Baden (1714). -
Mill Patents the Typewriter
Henry Mill created likely the first machine for printing individual letters and documents. Queen Anne, recognizing the merits of Mill's innovation, issued a patent guaranteeing his rights to manufacture and sell machines based on his design. -
Death of Queen Anne and Accession of George I
Death of Queen Anne, accession of George I. Great-grandson of James I, he came to throne because other claimants were excluded for being Catholic. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover. -
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Jacobite Rising in Scotland
Supporters of the exiled Stuart Dynasty rose up in Scotland, in an attempt to overthrow the new Hanover Dynasty and place James Edward on the British throne. This Jacobite movement drew enough adherents to pose a serious threat to the Hanoverian monarchy, but it ended in pailure because the Jacobites lacked good intelligence, adequate communications, and decisivve military leadership. -
Stukeley Studies Stonehenge and Avebury
Beginning in 1719 and ending in 1724, Stukely studies Stonehenge and Avebury. William Stukeley's systematic method of investigating Stonehenge, Avebury, and related prehistoric stone temple sities produced exceptional notes and drawings and became a model for archaeological fieldwork. Locale: Wiltshire, England Category: Archaeology; science and technology; architecture -
Defoe Publishes the First Novel
Robinson Crusoe, a fact-based realistically detailed account of a shipwrecked man struggling for survival, was the first novel written in English. The genre as a whole would come to be defined in terms of several of Robinson Crusoe's key features, especially its studied focus on character psychology, its association of detail with realism, and its alignment with middle-class values and experience. -
Bibliography 1
“1710 Fifty New Churches Act.” Anne. British History Online. Web. 7 Feb. 2012. -
Bibliography 2
Black, Jeremy. History of Europe: Eighteenth-Century Europe, Second Edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Print -
Bibliography 3
Great Events from History: The 18th Century 1701-1800, Volume 1 1701-1774. Ed. John Powell. New Jersey: Salem Press, Inc., 2006. Print.
