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| 1 | 1605 | |
| 2 | 1616 | - 1616: Death of Shakespeare
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| 3 | 1620 | - 1620: Dud Dudley of Tipton Green patents the manufacture of coke used in Iron Smelting
- 1620: The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth for New England
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| 4 | 1625 | - 1625: Charles I King of England 1625 - 1653
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| 5 | 1629 | - 1629: Parliament dissolved by King Charles I
did not meet for 11 Years
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| 6 | 1639 | - 1639: Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
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| 7 | 1642 | - 1642: 23 Oct 1632 English Civil War Battle of Edgehill Kineton Warwickshire Victory inconclusive
- 1642: Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham
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| 8 | 1643 | - 1643: 30 June 1643 English Civil War Battle of Adwalton Moor Birkenshaw Yorkshire Victor the Royalists
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| 9 | 1644 | - 1644: 31 Aug 1644 English Civil War Battle of Lostwithiel Cornwall Victor Royalists
- 1644: English Civil War Battle of Marson Moor, Long Marston Yorkshire Victor Royalists
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| 10 | 1645 | - 1645: 10 July 1645 English Civil War Battle of Langport Somerset Victo Parliament
- 1645: 14 June 1645 English Civil War Battle of Naseby, Northamptonshire Victor Parliament
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| 11 | 1649 | - 1649: Commonwealth Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell 1653 - 1658
- 1649: 20th Jan - 27 Jan 1649 Trial of Charles I in The Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster. Beheaded on 30th Jan and Buried at Windsor on 9th Jan
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| 12 | 1650 | - 1650: 3 Sept 1650 Second English Civil War Battle of Dunbar East Lothian Victory to Parliament
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| 13 | 1651 | - 1651: 3 Sept 1651 Second English Civil War Battle of Worcester Victor Parliament The final desisive Battle of the second civil war Charles II flees to France
- 1651: Scottish prisoners transported to the English settlements in America
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| 14 | 1653 | - 1653: 1653-1660 Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
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| 15 | 1658 | - 1658: Commonwealth Protectorate of Richard Cromwell 1658 - 1659
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| 16 | 1659 | - 1659: Restoration of Monarchy
- 1659: Death of Oliver Cromwell
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| 17 | 1660 | - 1660: Charles II King of England 1660 - 1685
- 1660: Founding of the Honourable British East India Company
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| 18 | 1662 | - 1662: Hearth Tax Imposed
- 1662: Act of Uniformity - 2,000 plus vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists.
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| 19 | 1665 | - 1665: Great Plague of London
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| 20 | 1666 | - 1666: Act of Parliament - burials to be in Woolen
- 1666: The Great fire of London 2 Sept after a drought from 27 June
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| 21 | 1670 | - 1670: Hudson's Bay Company established - early settlers in Canada
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| 22 | 1673 | - 1673: Test Act was passed to try to help differentiate between Anglicans and Catholics. Public officeholders were required to swear an oath of allegiance (which recognised the monarch as the head of the Church of England) and accept communion by Protestant form
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| 23 | 1675 | - 1675: Whig party formed under Shaftsbury
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| 24 | 1679 | - 1679: Tories first named
- 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England
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| 25 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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| 26 | 1684 | - 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
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| 27 | 1685 | - 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
- 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
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| 28 | 1688 | - 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
- 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
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| 29 | 1689 | - 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
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| 30 | 1694 | - 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
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| 31 | 1695 | - 1695: Freedom of Press in England
- 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
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| 32 | 1696 | - 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
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| 33 | 1697 | - 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 34 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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| 35 | 1702 | - 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
- 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
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| 36 | 1705 | - 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine
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| 37 | 1707 | - 1707: Kingdom of Great Britain Established English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament.
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| 38 | 1708 | - 1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
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| 39 | 1712 | - 1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
- 1712: Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession
- 1712: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender
- 1712: First Prime Minister Robert Walpole - 1742 (Whig)
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| 40 | 1714 | - 1714: George I King of England 1714 - 1727
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