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1660 |
Start of the Late Stuart architectural period (1660-1689) |
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1660 |
1/1/1660 |
Samuel Pepys starts to keep a diary |
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1660 |
25/5/1660 |
Charles II is crowned King of England |
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1660 |
2/9/1660 |
William Juxon becomes 77th Archbishop of Canterbury |
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1660 |
17/10/1660 |
The Ten Regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I are hung, drawn and quartered |
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1660 |
28/11/1660 |
Royal Society is founded |
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1661 |
23/4/1661 |
Charles II is crowned in Westminster Abbey for the second time |
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1662 |
16/5/1662 |
The Hearth Tax is introduced |
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1663 |
Theatre Royal open in Drury Lane |
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1663 |
16/6/1663 |
Gilbert Sheldon becomes 78th Archbishop of Canterbury |
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1663 |
27/7/1663 |
Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports |
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1664 |
28/10/1664 |
Formation of the Admirals Regiment, which later becomes the Royal Marines |
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1665 |
12/4/1665 |
Margaret Porteous is the first person who was recorded to die, in London, of the Great Plague |
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1665 |
7/7/1665 |
Charles II leaves London attempting to escape the Great Plague. He ends up fleeing with his court to Exeter. |
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1665 |
2/8/1665 |
Battle of Vågen, part of the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War |
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1665 |
13/8/1665 |
Battle of Lowestoft, part of the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War |
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1666 |
1/6/1666 |
Four Days Naval Battle, part of the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War |
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1666 |
25/7/1666 |
St. James's Day Naval Battle, part of the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, off North Foreland, near Broadstairs. |
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1666 |
19/8/1666 |
Holmes's Bonfire Naval Raid, part of the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War, on the Vlie estuary in the Netherlands, |
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1666 |
1/9/1666 |
Over 70,000 die in the Great Plague which ends in early September |
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1666 |
2/9/1666 |
Great fire of London |
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1666 |
5/9/1666 |
The Great Fire of London is finally extinguished |
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1667 |
9/6/1667 |
Battle of Medway, part of the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War. A series of raids in the Medway and the town of Chatham concluding on 14th June |
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1667 |
31/7/1667 |
The Treaty of Breda ends the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War |
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1668 |
The Triple Alliance formed between England, Sweden and the Dutch |
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1669 |
31/5/1669 |
Samuel Pepys ends his diary |
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1670 |
21/1/1670 |
The Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn |
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1670 |
26/5/1670 |
Charles II and Louis XIV sign the Secret Treaty of Dover ending hostilities between their kingdoms |
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1671 |
9/5/1671 |
Disguised as a clergyman Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London |
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1672 |
12/3/1672 |
England declares war on the Dutch, the Third Anglo-Dutch War |
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1672 |
8/4/1672 |
France declares war on the Dutch, the Third Anglo-Dutch War |
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1672 |
7/6/1672 |
Battle of Solebay, a sea battle off Dunwich between the Dutch and the combined forces of England and France |
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1673 |
7/6/1673 |
First Battle of Schooneveld: In a naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War |
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1673 |
14/6/1673 |
Second Battle of Schooneveld: In a naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War |
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1673 |
9/8/1673 |
Dutch forces commanded by Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture New York from English |
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1673 |
21/8/1673 |
Battle of Kijkduin. A Dutch fleet commanded by Michiel de Ruyter defeats the English and French |
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1674 |
19/2/1674 |
England and Holland sign the Treaty of Westminster ending the 3rd Anglo-Dutch War but the French keep on fighting the Dutch. |
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1675 |
10/8/1675 |
Charles II lays the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory |
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1677 |
4/11/1677 |
Priincess Mary, daughter of James II, marries William of Orange |
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1678 |
27/1/1678 |
William Sancroft becomes 79th Archbishop of Canterbury |
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1678 |
18/2/1678 |
John Bunyan publishes Pilgrim's Progress |
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1679 |
1/6/1679 |
Battle of Drumclog, part of Scottish Covenanter Wars |
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1679 |
22/6/1679 |
Battle of Bothwell Bridge, part of Scottish Covenanter Wars |
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1682 |
11/3/1682 |
Royal Hospital Chelsea is founded |
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1683 |
The River Thames freezes allowing a frost fair to be held on the ice heralding a very severe winter that lasts until March 1684 |
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1685 |
20/6/1685 |
Monmouth Rebellion starts |
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1685 |
6/7/1685 |
Battle of Sedgemoor, part of the Monmouth Rebellion |
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1685 |
15/7/1685 |
Duke of Monmouth is executed on Tower Hill just to the north of the Tower of London |
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1685 |
25/8/1685 |
The Bloody Assizes begin in Winchester resulting in over 1,000 of Monmouth's supporters being transported or condemned to death |
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1688 |
5/11/1688 |
William of Orange lands at Torbay with an army of 15,000 mercenaries |
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1688 |
9/11/1688 |
William of Orange captures Exeter |
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1688 |
11/12/1688 |
James II flees to France |
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1689 |
Start of the William and Mary architectural period (1689-1702) |
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1689 |
11/1/1689 |
Parliament declares James II deposed |
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1689 |
11/4/1689 |
William III and Mary II are crowned as King and Queen |
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1689 |
16/5/1689 |
Battle of Bantry Bay, naval engagement part of the Nine Years War |
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1689 |
24/5/1689 |
The Bill of Rights establishes a constitutional monarchy in England but with Roman Catholics barred from taking the throne |
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1689 |
25/5/1689 |
Abolition of the Hearth Tax |
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1689 |
27/7/1689 |
Battle of Killiecrankie, part of the 1st Jacobite Rising |
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1689 |
21/8/1689 |
Battle of Dunkeld, part of the Jacobite Rising |
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1689 |
25/8/1689 |
Battle of Walcourt, part of the Nine Years War |
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1690 |
30/4/1690 |
Battle of Cromdale, part of the Jacobite Rising |
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1690 |
1/7/1690 |
Battle of Fleurus, part of the Nine Years War |
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1690 |
10/7/1690 |
Anglo-Dutch fleet defeated by the French in the Battle of Beachy Head, part of the Nine Years War |
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1690 |
12/7/1690 |
Battle of the Boyne. James II is defeated and he returns to France |
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1690 |
26/7/1690 |
French raid on Teignmouth, it is the last-ever French attack on England |
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1690 |
18/8/1690 |
Battle of Staffarda, part of the Nine Years War |
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1691 |
15/3/1691 |
Siege of Mons, part of the Nine Years War, held until 19th April 1691 |
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1691 |
31/5/1691 |
John Tillotson becomes 80th Archbishop of Canterbury |
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1691 |
18/9/1691 |
Battle of Leuze, part of the Nine Years War |
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1692 |
13/2/1692 |
Massacre of Glencoe, part of the 1st Jacobite Rising |
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1692 |
29/5/1692 |
Battles of Barfleur, naval engagement part of the Nine Years War |
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1692 |
2/6/1692 |
Battle of Cherbourg, part of the Nine Years War |
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1692 |
4/6/1692 |
Battles of La Hogue, naval engagement part of the Nine Years War |
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1692 |
3/8/1692 |
Battle of Steenkerque, part of the Nine Years War |
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1693 |
27/6/1693 |
Battle of Lagos (Portugal), a naval engaement , part of the Nine Years War |
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1693 |
29/7/1693 |
Battle of Landen, part of the Nine Years War |
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1694 |
Bank of England founded |
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1694 |
18/6/1694 |
Battle of Camaret, part of the Nine Years War |
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1694 |
27/7/1694 |
Foundation of the Bank of England |
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1694 |
6/12/1694 |
Thomas Tenison becomes 81st Archbishop of Canterbury |
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1694 |
28/12/1694 |
Queen Mary II (1662–1694) dies of smallpox, William III rules on alone. |
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1695 |
2/7/1695 |
Siege of Namur, part of the Nine Years War, held until 1st September 1695 |
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1695 |
17/7/1695 |
Foundation of the Bank of Scotland |
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1697 |
20/9/1697 |
Treaty of Ryswick ends the Nine Years War |
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1698 |
4/1/1698 |
Palace of Whitehall destroyed by fire |
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1699 |
11/6/1699 |
Treaty of London signed by England, France and the Netherlands |
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