BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – VII/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – VII/XXII

AUGUSTAN AGE: 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL EVENTS

1701 War of Spanish Succession begins; Britain and allies against France

1702 William dies; Anne Succeeds

1704 Marlborough's Victory at Blenheim

1707 Union of England and Scotland

1713 Peace of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession

1714 Annie Dies; George I, summoned from Hanover, succeeds

1715 Jacobite rebellion in favour of James Edward, the 'Old Pretender'

1720 South Sea Bubble: thousands lose money; directors and government accused of corruption

1721 Walpole forms Ministry

1727 George I dies; George II succeeds; Walpole retains power; Death of Newton

1733 Walpole's Ministry survives excise crisis

1737 Queen Caroline dies; Licensing Act

1739 War against Spain, long resisted by Walpole, begins

1740 War of Austrian Succession begins

1742 Walpole falls

1745 Second Jacobite Rebellion, led by Charles Edward the Young Pretender'  harshly put down

1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chappelle ends war of Austrian Succession

1756 Beginning of seven years War

1757 Pitt-Newcastle Ministry; conquest of India begins under General Clive.

1759 Wolfe takes Quebec

1760 George II dies; his grandson George III succeeds

1762 Lord Butes ministry proves unpopular

1763 Peace of Paris ends Seven Years War; British gains in India and North

America

1770 North's ministry begins; Suicide of Chatterton

1776 American Declaration of Independence

1780 Gordon Riots

1781 British Forces defeated by Americans at Yorktown

1783 Peace of Versailles in which Britain recognizes the independence of the

American Colonies

1784 James Watt invents the steam engine

1785 Cartwright invents the power loom

1787 Association for the Abolition of the Slave Trade formed

1788-9 Regency crisis

1789 The French Revolution. The Fall of the Bastille on 14 July; the Declaration  of the Rights of Man on 4 August

1791 Flight of Louis XVI

1792 French royal family imprisoned; September massacres

1793 Execution of Louis XVI; The Terror, murder of Marat; Britain joins the war against France

1794 Danton and Robespierre executed; In Britain Habeas Corpus Act Suspended; Tooke Holcroft and Thelwall acquitted

1795 The French Directory established

1796 Bonaparte's Italian Campaign

1798 The battle of the Nile; Revolt in Ireland

1799 Bonaparte becomes First Counsel

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