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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1665 | - 1665—1665: Great Plague of London (July-October) kills over 60,000
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| 2 | 1666 | - 2 Sep 1666—2 Sep 1666: Great Fire of London, after a drought beginning 27 June (2-6 Sep)
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| 3 | 1668 | - 1668—1668: Newton constructs reflecting telescope
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| 4 | 1679 | - 27 May 1679—27 May 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England - (later repealed from time to
time)
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| 5 | 1681 | - 1681—1681: Oil lighting first used in London streets
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| 6 | 1682 | - 1682—1682: Halley observes the comet which bears his name
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| 7 | 1687 | - 5 Jul 1687—5 Jul 1687: Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' - written
in Latin
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| 8 | 1688 | - Feb 1688—Feb 1688: Edward Lloyd's Coffee House opens - later became Lloyd's of London
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| 9 | 1692 | - 13 Feb 1692—13 Feb 1692: The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and
murders members of Clan McDonald
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| 10 | 1697 | - 2 Dec 1697—2 Dec 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 11 | 1698 | - 1698—1698: Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
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| 12 | 1702 | - 11 Mar 1702—11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
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| 13 | 1703 | - 4 Aug 1703—4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
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| 14 | 1705 | - 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710
or 1711)
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| 15 | 1707 | - 16 Jan 1707—16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English
Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in
March
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| 16 | 1712 | - 1712—1712: Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
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| 17 | 1714 | - 1714—1714: Longitude Act: prize of ?20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of
determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
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| 18 | 1726 | - 1726—1726: Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
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Bef 1665 - Bef 1730 (< 64 years)
