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Hint
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Answer
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1699
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An Act of Parliament formally establishes a market at Billingsgate to sell this commodity. It goes on to become the largest such market in the world, and is still in existence.
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Fish
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1698
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Darien Scheme investors from the Kingdom of Scotland, attempt to establish the colony of New Caledonia in what is now this modern day central American country.
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Panama
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1697
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Still in production, this astrological almanac is published for the first time.
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Old Moore's Almanack
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1696
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'The Cascade' is completed at this large Derbyshire country residence.
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Chatsworth House
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1695
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Ths financial institution is created by an Act of the Parliament.
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Bank of Scotland
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1694
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The Royal Hospital for Seamen is established at the site of this London palace.
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Greenwich
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1693
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Clockmaker John Harrison is born in Wakefield. He later invents the marine chronometer, designed to solve the problem of measuring this parameter, while at sea.
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Longitude
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1692
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A brutal massacre of members of Clan MacDonald takes place in this Scottish valley.
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Glen Coe
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1691
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English and Dutch forces are defeated by the French at the Battle of Leuze during the Nine Years' War, also known by this name.
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War of the Grand Alliance
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1690
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Derbyshire born John Flamsteed makes the earliest known sighting of this planet which he mistakenly records as a star, cataloguing it as 34 Tauri.
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Uranus
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1689
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This ruler, and her husband William, become joint monarchs of Britain and Ireland.
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Mary II
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1688
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This series of events leads to the deposition of James II of England and Ireland.
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Glorious Revolution
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1687
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This order of chivalry is founded by King James VII of Scotland.
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Order of the Thistle
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1686
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Edmund Andros arrives in this city to become the British Governor of the newly-created Dominion of New England.
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Boston
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1685
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This person is sentenced to be imprisoned, pilloried and whipped for fabricating the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
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Titus Oates
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1684
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A performing animals act at the Thames Frost Fair leads to the formation of this touring circus, a name still in existence to this day.
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Chipperfields Circus
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1683
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Becoming Britain's first public museum, this collection opens its doors in Oxford.
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Ashmolean
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1682
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Construction of this Royal Hospital for old soldiers is commissioned by Charles II.
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Chelsea
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1681
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This influential religious thinker receives a royal charter to establish a colony in the Americas. A state will eventually be named after him.
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William Penn
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1680
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The Green Ribbon Club organises a procession to burn an effigy of this religious figure.
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Pope
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1679
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Parliament passes this Act to examine the lawfulness of a prisoner's detention.
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Habeas Corpus
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1678
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This book by John Bunyan is published for the first time.
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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1677
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This composer is appointed a musician to the royal court. He goes on to write the opera 'Dido and Aeneas'.
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Henry Purcell
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1676
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England experiences its first recorded major epidemic of this infectious disease.
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Influenza
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1675
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The first Royal Yacht, HMY Mary, is wrecked and sinks near the coast of this Welsh island.
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Anglesey
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1674
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The Treaty of Westminster ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the city of New Amsterdam is renamed New York, after spending a year with this alternative name.
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New Orange
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1673
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This architect is knighted soon after being assigned to the redesign of St. Paul''s Cathedral.
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Christopher Wren
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1672
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An English invasion force captures this Caribbean island from Dutch colonists.
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Tobago
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1671
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The King is given this cold dessert, the first record of it being served in England.
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Ice cream
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1670
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King Charles II and this French king sign the anti-Dutch Secret Treaty of Dover.
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Louis XIV
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1669
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This London diarist records his last entry in the account of his daily life.
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Samuel Pepys
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1668
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This wooded area in the west of Gloucestershire is re-established as a royal forest.
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Forest of Dean
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1667
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The first edition of this novel by John Milton is published and sells out in eighteen months.
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Paradise Lost
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1666
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The Great Fire of London starts in this small street in the historic city.
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Pudding Lane
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1665
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This actress and mistress of King Charles II makes her first appearance on the London stage.
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Nell Gwyn
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1664
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This province becomes an English colony, later becoming a US state with the same name.
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New Jersey
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1663
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The original Theatre Royal opens in this London Street. It is still the location of a theatre with the same name.
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Drury Lane
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1662
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The first known performance of this traditional puppet show take place.
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Punch and Judy
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1661
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The body of this former Lord Protector is exhumed and posthumously 'executed'.
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Oliver Cromwell
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1660
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This future author, who works include 'Robinson Crusoe', is born in London.
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Daniel Defoe
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1659
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The earliest known English example of this method of payment is issued.
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Cheque
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1658
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Long distance trips by this method of public carriage are possible for the first time.
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Stagecoach
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1657
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This beverage is sold for the first time at a London tobacconist's shop.
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Tea
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1656
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This future Astronomer Royal, and comet namesake, is born in London.
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Edmond Halley
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1655
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Mathematician John Wallis introduces the standard symbol for this boundless quantity.
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Infinity
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1654
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The Treaty of Westminster ends this European conflict.
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First Anglo-Dutch War
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1653
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This book by Izaac Walton, celebrating the art of fishing, is published for the first time.
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The Compleat Angler
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1652
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This notable architect dies, having made his name as the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to Britain.
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Inigo Jones
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1651
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Charles II becomes the last King of Scotland to be crowned at this place.
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Scone Abbey
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1650
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The Religious Society of Friends acquires this nickname.
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Quakers
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1649
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This revolt takes place in Norfolk, largely in response to the enclosure of land.
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Kett's Rebellion
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1648
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11000 men fight in the largest battle ever to take place on Welsh soil, at this village near Cardiff, now the site of a major open air history museum.
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St. Fagans
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1647
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King Charles I is imprisoned in this castle on the Isle of Wight.
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Carisbrooke
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1646
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This city in the south-west of England surrenders to Parliamentary forces.
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Exeter
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1645
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This major battle takes place in Northamptonshire during the First English Civil War.
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Naseby
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1644
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At the Battle of Marston Moor, the English Parliamentarian forces, led by the Earl of Manchester and this commander, win a resounding victory over the Royalist army.
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Lord Fairfax
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1643
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This island in the Indian Ocean is sighted and named by English Captain William Mynors of the East India Company.
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Christmas Island
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1642
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King Charles raises the royal battle standard over the castle in this Midlands town, marking the beginning of the English Civil War.
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Nottingham
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1641
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This English court, established to enforce the law against socially and politically prominent people, is abolished by the Long Parliament.
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Star Chamber
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1640
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This truce is signed in a northern English town between Charles I and the Scottish Covenanters, bringing about a cessation of hostilities to the Second Bishops' War.
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Treaty of Ripon
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1639
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Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree record the first known account of the transit of this planet.
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Venus
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1638
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The verdict at the trial of John Hampden declares that this tax on maritime communities for naval defense is a legal means of raising money.
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Ship Money
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1637
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An attempt to bring worship in Scotland in line with England by introducing this prayer book prompts riots and rebellion.
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Book of Common Prayer
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1636
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A college is founded in the English colony at Cambridge, Massachusetts, later to be renamed in recognition of this Puritan minister and principal benefactor.
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John Harvard
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1635
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This Flemish artist paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall.
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Peter Paul Rubens
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1634
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Cornelius Vermuyden begins draining this low-lying area of England to reclaim farmland.
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The Fens
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1633
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An infantry regiment is formed that goes on to be known by this name. It exists continuously until amalgamation in 2006 with the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
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Royal Scots
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1632
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This colony in North America is named after Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I.
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Maryland
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1631
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Due to a printing error, declaring "Thou shalt commit adultery", a version of the King James Bible is published which acquires this nickname.
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Wicked Bible
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1630
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English settlers found the first European colony at what is now Paramaribo in this modern day South American country.
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Suriname
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1629
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This French territory in North America is surrendered to England after the Treaty of Suza.
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Quebec
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1628
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King Charles I accepts the terms of this document which establishes the rights of citizens.
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Petition of Right
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1627
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Barbary pirates from the Republic of Salé (now part of Morocco) begin a 5 year occupation of this island off the north coast of Devon. They use it as a base for raiding parties.
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Lundy
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1626
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Spa water is discovered in this coastal town in Yorkshire, leading to a flood of visitors to what becomes Britain's first seaside resort.
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Scarborough
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1625
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This nickname is given to a Parliament dissolved by an offended King Charles as it transacts no significant business.
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Useless Parliament
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1624
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This settlement in North America becomes a Crown Colony.
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Virginia
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1623
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William Shakespeare's collection of 36 plays is printed in this publication, the first time they had been brought together in a single combined volume.
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First Folio
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1622
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Mathematician and Anglican clergyman William Oughtred invents this mechanical device for performing direct multiplication and division.
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Slide Rule
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1621
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A violent storm and great darkness, occurring at the very moment the Scottish Parliament is sitting to enforce episcopacy on the people, gives rise to this name.
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Black Saturday
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1620
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This ship departs from Plymouth to cross the Atlantic with a group of ''Pilgrims' on board.
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Mayflower
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1619
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The first lighthouse is built on the tip of this southernmost peninsula in Cornwall.
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The Lizard
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1618
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This statesman, soldier, writer and explorer is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster.
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Walter Raleigh
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1617
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This English philosopher and statesman is appointed Lord High Chancellor.
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Francis Bacon
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1616
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This native american woman travels to London with her husband John Rolfe.
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Pocahontas
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1615
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Sir Thomas Roe sets out on a voyage to become the first English ambassador to Jahangir, fourth Emperor of this South Asian empire.
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Mughal
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1614
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John Napier introduces this means of simplifying mathematical calculations.
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Logarithms
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1613
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This means of settling disputes using armed combat is condemned by King James I.
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Duel
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1612
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Perhaps the most notorious witchcraft trials in England take place, with the accused coming from an area surrounding this hill in Lancashire, Ten are found guilty and hanged.
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Pendle
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1611
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The first performance of this Shakespeare comedy occurs at the Palace of Whitehall.
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1610
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This English explorer sets sail on the Discovery and becomes the first European to see this immense bay in North America which is now named after him.
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Henry Hudson
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1609
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The ship Sea Venture is driven ashore on this Atlantic archipelago, effectively settling it for the first time. It is now a British Overseas Territory.
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Bermuda
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1608
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According to tradition, this sport is first introduced to England and played at Blackheath.
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Golf
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1607
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A massive wave sweeps along this major inlet of Britain, killing 2,000 people.
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Bristol Channel
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1606
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The Susan Constant leads a fleet out from the River Thames on a journey to establish this colony in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Jamestown
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1605
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This plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled after an anonymous tip-off.
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Gunpowder Plot
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1604
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The Treaty of London is signed, bringing an end to Britain's long conflict with this country.
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Spain
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1603
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This reigning Queen of England dies at Richmond Palace.
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Elizabeth I
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1602
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This library at the University of Oxford in England is opened for the first time.
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Bodleian
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1601
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The first expedition of the East India Company sets sail from England for these distant islands, famed for nutmeg and mace.
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Spice Islands
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1600
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Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of this date.
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March 25
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Wish there were more quizzes like this on Jetpunk