The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: 1660-1800

By Logan_ralph46
  • London theaters reopen; actresses appear onstage for the first time.

    London theaters reopen; actresses appear onstage for the first time.

    With the reopening of the theatres after the Restoration, women were for the first time allowed to act on the stage.
  • Charles II is proclaimed king of England (crowned in 1661).

    Charles II is proclaimed king of England (crowned in 1661).

    Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685)[c] was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • Plague claims more than 68,000 people in london

    Plague claims more than 68,000 people in london

    The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England
  • Great Fire destroys much of London

    Great Fire destroys much of London

    The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666
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    Glorious (bloodless): Revolution James II is succeeded by Protestant rulers of William and Mary

    The Glorious Revolution,[b] also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England
  • Alexander Pope publishes part of The Rape of the Lock

    Alexander Pope publishes part of The Rape of the Lock

    The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines),
  • Swift publishes A Modest Proposal, protesting English treatment of the Irish poor.

    Swift publishes A Modest Proposal, protesting English treatment of the Irish poor.

    A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
  • Voltaire publishes Candide

    Voltaire publishes Candide

    Voltaire published Candide simultaneously in five countries no later than 15 January 1759.
  • George III is crowned kind of England; becomes known as the king who last the American Colonies

    George III is crowned kind of England; becomes known as the king who last the American Colonies

    George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738[a] – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.
  • British Parliment passes Stamp Act for taxing American Colonies

    British Parliment passes Stamp Act for taxing American Colonies

    The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
  • African American poet Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subject, Religous and Moral is published in London

    African American poet Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subject, Religous and Moral is published in London

    Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first published African-American female poet
  • Boston Tea Party occurs.

    Boston Tea Party occurs.

    The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party happened in 3 British ships in the Boston Harbor.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Napoleon heads revolutionary goverment in France.

    Napoleon heads revolutionary goverment in France.

    Napoleon was head guy over France goverment in 1799