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When is the Glorious Revolution? What king is exiled and who replaces him?

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1688-89; James II; his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange

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What year is Behn’s Oroonoko published?

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1688

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What year does John Locke publish An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?

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1690

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What year does William Congreve’s The Way of the World premiere?

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1700

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When does Mary Astell publish Some Reflections upon Marriage?

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1700

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When does the War of Spanish Succession begin?

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1702 (the year that William III dies and is succeeded by Anne)

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What year does William III die? He is succeeded by?

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1702; Anne, Protestant daughter of James II

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What year does Jonathan Swift publish A Tale of a Tub?

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1704

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What year does Newton publish Opticks?

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1704

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What year is the Act of Union with Scotland?

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1707

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In the 18th century, what year do the Tories first take power in Parliament?

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1710

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What year does Alexander Pope publish An Essay on Criticism?

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1711

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What years is Addison and Steele’s “Spectator” running?

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1711-12, 1714

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What year is the Treaty of Utrecht and what war does it end?

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1713; War of the Spanish Succession

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What year does Queen Anne die? She is succeeded by whom, and what dynasty does this inaugurate?

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1714; George I, great-grandson of James I); Hanover

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What party gains control of Parliament the year Queen Anne dies? What year is that?

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Whigs; 1714

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What years is Lady Mary Montagu writing her letters from Turkey?

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1716-18

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What year does Pope produce the final version of The Rape of the Lock?

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1717

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What year does Daniel Defoe write Robinson Crusoe?

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1719

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When is Pope alive?

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1688-1784

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When is Daniel Defoe alive?

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1660-1731

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When does the South Sea Bubble collapse?

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1720

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What year does Robert Walpole come to power?

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1721

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What year does Swift publish Gulliver’s Travels?

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1726

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What year does George I die? He is succeeded by?
1727; George II
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What year does John Gay's The Beggar's Opera premiere?
1728
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What year is Pope's An Essay on Man published?
1733
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What year does the Licensing Act censor the stage?
1737
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What year is Samuel Richardson's Pamela published?
1740
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What year is Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews published?
1742
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What year does Walpole resign?
1742
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What year does Pope produce the final version of The Dunciad?
1743
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What year does William Hogarth create Marriage A-la-Mode?
1743
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What year is William Collins's Odes published?
1746
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What year does Charles Edward Stuart's defeat at Culloden end the last Jacobite rebellion?
1746
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What year is Richardson's Clarissa published?
1747
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What year is Fielding's Tom Jones published?
1749
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What year does Thomas Gray write "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
1751
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What year does Robert Clive seize Arcot? This is the prelude to what?
1751; English control of India
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The seizure of Arcot was a prelude to English control of India. Who accomplished this seizure and in what year?
Robert Clive; 1751
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What year does Samuel Johnson produce his Dictionary?
1755
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When does the Seven Years' War begin?
1756
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What year is Johnson's Rasselas published?
1759
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What year is Voltaire's Candide published?
1759
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What year does James Wolfe's capture of Quebec ensure British control of Canada?
1759
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During what years did Sterne's Tristram Shandy appear in installments?
1769-76
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What year does George III succeed to the throne?
1760
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What year does Johnson publish his edition of Shakespeare?
1765
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What year does Captain James Cook make his voyages to Australia and New Zealand?
1768
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What year is Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" published?
1770
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What does Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" condemn?
Rural depopulation and excessive pursuit of wealth
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When is the American Revolution?
1775-83
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What year does James Watt first produce his steam engines, an improvement on Newcomen's steam engines?
1775
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What year is Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations published?
1776
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What year is Frances Burney's Evelina published?
1778
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When are Johnson's Lives of the Poets appearing?
1779-81
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When are London's Gordon Riots?
1780
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What year is George Crabbe's The Village published?
1783
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What year does William Pitt become prime minister?
1783
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What year is William Cowper's The Task published?
1785
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When do Anna Letitia Aikin's (later Barbauld) "Poems" appear?
1773
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What year was J.W. von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" published?
1774
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What year does Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations appear?
1776
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When were Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, and J.C. Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers published?
1781
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What year was Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets published?
1784
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What year were William Beckford's Vathek and Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published?
1786
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When were Jeremy Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation and William Blake's Songs of Innocence published?
1789
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What year were Joanna Baillie's Poems, Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France published?
1790
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What year did William Gilpin's Observations of the River Wye, Thomas Paine's Rights on Man, and Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest get published?
1791
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When was Mary Wollstoncraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published?
1792
71
William Godwin published Political Justice in...?
1793
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What year were Blake's Songs of Experience, Godwin's Caleb Williams, and Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho published?
1794
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American War of Independence
1775-1783
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When were the Gordon Riots in London?
1780
75
When did William Pitt become prime minister? How long did he serve? (years)
1783; 1783-1801 and again in 1804-1806.
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When did Samuel Johnson die?
1784
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When was the Fall of the Bastille? (Beginning of the French Revolution.)
1789
78
W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni appeared in which year?
1787
79
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in which year?
1787
80
J.M.W. Turner first exhibits at the Royal Academy in...
1790
81
When was the Revolution in Santo Domingo (modern Haiti)?
1791
82
Where were the September Massacres in Paris?
1792
83
First gaslights appeared in Britain in...
1792
84
When was the Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?
1793
85
Which year does France declare war against Britain? (And then Britain against France)?
1793
86
Reign of Terror Year
1793
87
When was the fall of Robespeirre/ trials for high treason of members of the London Corresponding Society?
1794
88
When does Pitt's Gagging Acts suppress freedom of speech and assembly in Britain?
1795

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