Dates 1660: Restoration of Charles II 1666: the Great Fire of London 1685: accession of James II 1688-89: the Glorious Revolution; accession of William of Orange 1700: death of John Dryden 1707: the Act of Union 1715: the first Jacobite uprising 1702-14: reign of Queen Anne 1721-42: Sir Robert Walpole Prime Minister 1745: the second Jacobite uprising 1789: the French Revolution
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