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London theaters reopen
For nearly 20 years, the London theatres were closed to the public, but in 1660, when King Charles II at last returned from exile in Europe, the theatre started up again. -
Charles 2 is proclaimed King of England
Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II King on 5 February 1649, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth -
plague claims more than 68,000 in London
his was the last major outbreak of the plague in England, and the first since 1636, when some 10,000 had died, and 1625, when some 35,000 died (according to estimates in John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality [1662]). In this new outbreak some 75,000 persons are estimated to have died, out of a population of 460,000 in London at that time, with the poor being hardest hit. -
Great fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. -
Glorious (Bloodless)
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange). -
alexnder pope publishes part of 'The Rape of the Lock'
was an 18th-century English poet. -
Swift publishes 'A Modest Proposal'
is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729 -
Voltaire publishes 'Candide'
It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply "optimism") by his mentor -
George 3 is crowned king of England
He became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760. He was the third Hanoverian monarch and the first one to be born in England and to use English as his first language. -
British Parliment passes Stamp Act for taxing Americans
was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Phillis Wheatley's Poems on various subject is published in london
Wheatley's collection was the first volume of poetry by an African-American poet to be published. Regarded as a prodigy by her contemporaries, Wheatley was approximately twenty at the time of the book's publication. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'
In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education -
Napoleon heads revolutionary government in France
was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire.
