1711 - 1752 (~ 40 years)
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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1711 | - 11 Aug 1711—11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
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| 2 | 1712 | - 1712—1712: Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
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| 3 | 1714 | - 1714—1714: Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
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| 4 | 1715 | - 1 Aug 1715—1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
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| 5 | 1723 | - 1723—1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
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| 6 | 1727 | - 11 Jun 1727—11 Jun 1727: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
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| 7 | 1733 | - 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in
Latin for a few years
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| 8 | 1739 | - 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
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| 9 | 1741 | - 1741—1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian
registers
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| 10 | 1752 | - 3 Sep 1752—3 Sep 1752: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and
Scotland, making this Sep 14
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