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Actresses appear onstage for the first time, also Charles II restored to the throne. Reopening of the theaters
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The Resotration of the English monarchy offically began in 1660 when the English, Scottish, and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II.
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The Black Death: Bubonic Plague.The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly.
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Fire destroys the City of London due to fire accident
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The Glorious Revolution.
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The Rape of the Lock is a mock-herioc narrative written by Alexander Pope. The poem satirizes a petty conflict by comparing it to the the world of the gods.
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n A Modest Proposal, Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. The essay mocks the heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.
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Voltair publishes the book candide
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George III succeeds to the throne
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is a collection of 39 poems. Wheatley broke barriers as the first American black woman to be published. People questioned whether or not Wheatley had written the poems herself and men such as John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, and Andrew Oliver signed an attestation clause verifying that they believed Wheatley had written the poems herself.
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The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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Vindication of the Rights of Women was published in response to the educaton and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe that women should have an education.
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After a series of whirlwind victories, General Bonaparte led his victorious army into Milan on May 5, 1799. The Milanese greeted him as a heroic liberator, the general who freed them from the rule of the Austrian emperor Francis I.
