 Abt 1675 - 1707 (32 years)
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| 1 | 1675 | - 1675: Whig party formed under Shaftsbury
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| 2 | 1679 | - 1679: Tories first named
- 1679: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England
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| 3 | 1682 | - 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
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| 4 | 1684 | - 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
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| 5 | 1685 | - 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
- 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
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| 6 | 1688 | - 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
- 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
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| 7 | 1689 | - 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
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| 8 | 1694 | - 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
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| 9 | 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- 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
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| 10 | 1696 | - 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
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| 11 | 1697 | - 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 12 | 1701 | - 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
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| 13 | 1702 | - 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
- 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
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| 14 | 1705 | - 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine
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| 15 | 1707 | - 1707: Kingdom of Great Britain Established English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament.
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