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Date |
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| 1 | 1688 | - 1688—1688: Hearth Tax abolished
- Nov 1688—Nov 1688: The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates
- 5 Nov 1688—5 Nov 1688: William of Orange lands at Torbay
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| 2 | 1689 | - 13 Feb 1689—13 Feb 1689: William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne (only William, however, has regal power)
- 24 May 1689—24 May 1689: Toleration Act passed for Protestant non-conformists
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| 3 | 1690 | - 20 May 1690—20 May 1690: England passes Act of Grace, forgiving Roman Catholic followers of James II
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| 4 | 1692 | - 1692—1692: Land Tax introduced - an annual tax on personal estate, public offices and land.
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| 5 | 1694 | - 1694—1694: Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
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| 6 | 1695 | - 1695—1695: Start of Dissenters' lists in parish registers, children born but not christened in the parish church, some were named 'Papist' and others 'Protestants'
- 1695—1695: Freedom of Press in England granted
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| 7 | 1698 | - 1698—1698: Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
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| 8 | 1701 | - 1701—1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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| 9 | 1702 | - 11 Mar 1702—11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
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| 10 | 1707 | - 16 Jan 1707—16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English
Parliament
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| 11 | 1710 | - 1710—1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
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| 12 | 1711 | - 11 Aug 1711—11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
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| 13 | 1712 | - 1712—1712: Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
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| 14 | 1714 | - 1714—1714: Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
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| 15 | 1715 | - 1 Aug 1715—1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
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| 16 | 1723 | - 1723—1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
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| 17 | 1727 | - 11 Jun 1727—11 Jun 1727: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
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| 18 | 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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| 19 | 1739 | - 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
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| 20 | 1741 | - 1741—1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian
registers
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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 1754 | - 1754—1754: Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns required & Printed Marriage Register forms used. Quakers & Jews were exempt
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| 23 | 1759 | - 1759—1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
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| 24 | 1760 | - 25 Oct 1760—25 Oct 1760: George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king.
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| 25 | 1780 | - 1780—1780: Male Servants Tax
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| 26 | 1783 | - 1783—1783: Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in
entries!
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| 27 | 1784 | - 2 Aug 1784—2 Aug 1784: First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
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| 28 | 1785 | - 1785—1785: Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children.
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| 29 | 1788 | - 1788—1788: Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old.
- 26 Jan 1788—26 Jan 1788: First convicts & free settlers arrive in New South Wales, eleven ships commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip
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| 30 | 1792 | - 1792—1792: Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press)
- 1 Dec 1792—1 Dec 1792: King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
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| 31 | 1793 | - 15 Apr 1793—15 Apr 1793: £5 notes first issued by the Bank of England
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| 32 | 1794 | - 1794—1794: Abolition of Parish Register duties
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| 33 | 1795 | - 1795—1795: The Famine Year
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| 34 | 1796 | - 1796—1796: Pitt's Reign of Terror': More treason trials - leading radicals emigrate
- 1796—1796: Legacy Tax on sums over £20 excluding those to wives, children, parents and
grandparents
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