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Rochester, Clarendon, Cowley, Shaftesbury.
Butler

The Dutch Admirals Van Tromp and De Ruyter
successfully opposed by Sandwich and Rupert

Dryden flourished

The dreadful plague

The fire of London

Extracts from a journal of the plague

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1665 ... 135

... 1666 ... ibid.

Extract from the London Gazette of 1665;

describing the fire of London

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Pertinacity & cruel punishment of Titus Oates ibid. 147

Unfortunate rebellion of Monmouth
Consequent cruelties of Jeffries, Kirk, &c.
Dispensation from the laws expected by the
King

Episcopalians and leading nobility apply to the

Prince of Orange

William of Nassau sails for England

King James abdicates the throne

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1686 151

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1687 ... 153

..... 1688 ... 154

Is hospitably received at St. Germain's by

Louis XIV.

ibid.

155

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Union with Scotland

Sir George Byng defeats a French fleet having

the Pretender on board

Death of Prince George of Denmark

War with France

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The life of Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford,

attempted at the council table, by Guiscard 1710

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ibid.

179

1712 ... ibid.

1714 ... ibid.

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A lunatic fires at the Prince of Wales in Drury
Lane Theatre

A war with Sweden prevented by the mediation

of the Duke of Orleans

Disputes between the King and Parliament about supplies

The quadruple alliance

186

ibid.

..... 1717... 188

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1719... ibid.

1720... ibid.

Sir George Byng defeats the Spanish fleet off
Messina

Peace with Spain

The celebrated South Sea bubble

Lord Macclesfield found guilty of peculation
The Swedes, Danes and Russians beaten by

Admirals Wager, Hosier, and Jennings

1725 ... ibid.

.... 189

Death

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The Duke of Parma patronises the Pretender
Death of the King's brother, Ernest

The Prince of Wales comes to reside in Eng-
land

The King visits his German dominions

Disputes between the King of Prussia and the
States of Hanover

Peace with Spain

Repeal of the salt tax

Renewal of the East India Company's Charter

The Craftsman published

Treaty of Vienna

Sutton, Grant, Birch, Bond, and other pecula

tors punished

The Excise established

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Sir Robert Walpole assaulted by the populace

The Princess Anne married to the Prince of

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ibid. 193

1729 ... ibid.

ibid.

1730 ... ibid.

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194

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The Prince of Wales married

Captain Porteous hanged by the mob in

Theodore, King of Corsica, dies in London

Death of Queen Caroline

Disputes with Spain

King George the Third born June the 4th

1736 ... 197 ibid.

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ibid.

198

1738 ... ibid

199

Porto

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1740 ... ibid.

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The Princess Mary marries Prince Frederic of Hesse

War with France, Spain, and Holland

Much civil dissension occasioned by the war 1741 ... ibid.

Garrick first appeared on the stage

Sir Robert Walpole resigns

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1742 ... ibid.

The Earl of Stair distinguised hmself abroad
The Carteret, or broad-bottomed administration
Battle of Dettingen

Naval victories

.. 1743 ... ibid.

Admiral Anson returns from a voyage round

the world

The Pelham Ministry

Rebellion in Scotland

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1745 ... ibid.

... 205

Battle of Culloden

Changes in the Ministry

Naval Victories

Peace with France, &c.

1746 ... ibid.

1747 ... ibid.

1748... 206

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Death of the Prince of Wales, father to his

present Majesty

Death of Lord Bolingbroke

1750 ... ibid.

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Rise of the illustrious names of Pitt and Fox 1756 208

Tragedy of the Black Hole at Calcutta
Many naval victories

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1757 ... ibid.

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1758 ... ibid.

Institution

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The French family compact

Belleisle taken from the French

Sir John Cust chosen Speaker of the House of

Commons

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Victories of Admiral Pococke and the Earl of

Albermarle

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Manilla taken by Admiral Cornish and General

. Draper

Birth of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales

The Cock-Lane Ghost

A general peace

Wilkes and Liberty

The Duke of York born

The English massacred in India by Cossim

Ally Cawn

The Duke of Brunswick marries his Majesty's

sister

Death of Churchill and Hogarth

The stamp act generates disputes with America 1755

The Rockingham administration

The Isle of Man bought by the crown

Birth of the Duke of Clarence

Death of the Old Pretender.

Troubles in America

Grafton Administration

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... ibid.

.... 232

Birth

A Famine in England, occasioned by too great

an exportation of Corn

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