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1660 |
Charles II becomes King and the Royal Society is founded |
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1665 |
Over 70,000 die in the Great Plague |
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1666 |
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1692 |
Massacre of Glencoe |
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1694 |
Bank of England founded |
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1707 |
English and Scottish Parliaments unite with the Act of Union |
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1709 |
Abraham Derby uses coke to make iron |
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1721 |
Robert Walpole becomes the First Prime Minister |
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1723 |
Death of Sir Christopher Wren |
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1730 |
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1731 |
No 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the Prime Minister |
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1733 |
The |
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1746 |
Battle of Culloden |
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1762 |
The first sandwich is eaten by the Earl of Sandwich |
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1764 |
James Hargreaves invents the "Spinning Jenny" |
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1768 |
Royal Academy of Arts founded |
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1775 |
Watt and Boulton join to make Steam Engines and the American War of Independence begins |
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1777 |
James Watt perfects the Steam Engine |
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1783 |
American Independence recognised |
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1788 |
The first convicts are sent to Australia |
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1792 |
Edmund Cartwright invents the |
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1798 |
Battle of the Nile, Nelson defeats the French |
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