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Monarchy is restored in England.
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Great Plague of London
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The great fire of london
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John Milton, Paradise Lost
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John Dryden, Marriage à-la-Mode
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Aphra Behn, The Rover
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John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
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Denis Papin invented the pressure cooker.
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Reign of James II
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Thomas Savery invented the Odometer
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Thomas Savery invented the steam engine.
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Congreve, The Way of the World
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Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
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Anne is crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books
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Richard Steele founds the periodical The Tatler
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
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Richard Steele and Joseph Addison found The Spectator
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John Shore invented the tuning fork
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George I becomes King of England after Queen Anne dies
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first reliable thermometer
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George II becomes King of Britain
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William Hogarth, The Harlot's Progress
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
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Samuel Richardson, Pamela
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Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin Stove
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Alexander Pope dies
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
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Bifocals were invented by Benjamin Franklin
