| 1603 |
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Scottish James VI made English James I - first Stuart king |
| 1605 |
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Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot against James' anti-Catholic laws |
| 1607 |
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First permanent British settlement in Virginia, North America |
| 1611 |
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"Authorized Version" of Bible printed in Britain |
| 1616 |
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Death of William Shakespeare (dramatist and poet) |
| 1618 |
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Sir Walter Raleigh executed |
| 1620 |
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Puritan Pilgrim Fathers establish a colony in North America |
| 1625 |
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Charles I succedes James I as King of England |
| 1626 |
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Death of Francis Bacon (philosopher and statesman) |
| 1628 |
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Petition of Rights establishes Parliament's rights over King's |
| 1629 |
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Charles I dismisses Parliament and rules alone |
| 1637 |
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Death of Ben Johnson (dramatist) |
| 1640 |
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Long Parliament ends Charles I's personal rule |
| 1640 |
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English Civil War starts - Royalist Cavaliers against Puritan Roundheads |
| 1649 |
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Cromwell has Charles I executed and sets up Commonwealth |
| 1651 |
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Charles II escapes Cromwell to France |
| 1651 |
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Thomas Hobbes publishes "Leviathon" (philosophical treatise) |
| 1652 |
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Strengthened British navy defeats Dutch in First Dutch War |
| 1653 |
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Cromwell made Lord Protector of England - subdues Ireland |
| 1660 |
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Royal Society (scientific organization) founded in London |
| 1660 |
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Restoration - Long Parliament dissolved and Charles II restores monarchy |
| 1665 |
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Great Plague |
| 1666 |
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Great Fire of London |
| 1674 |
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Death of John Milton (poet) |
| 1679 |
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Death of Thomas Hobbes (social philosopher) |
| 1681 |
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Charles II tries to rule without Parliament |
| 1685 |
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James II succedes to English throne after Charles' death |
| 1685 |
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Judge Jeffries' "Bloody Assize" after Monmouth's failed coup |
| 1687 |
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Sir Isaac Newton publishes his "Principia" |
| 1687 |
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Lloyds of London insurance company established |
| 1688 |
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Dutch William of Orange (III) invited to take English throne (with Mary) |
| 1688 |
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Death of Sir Henry Morgan (buccaneer and pirate) |
| 1690 |
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William III defeats James and Louis XIV at Boyne, Ireland |
| 1691 |
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Death of George Fox (founder of Quaker sect) |
| 1692 |
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Massacre of Glencoe - English "lesson" to Scottish highlanders |
| 1694 |
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Bank of England founded |
| 1695 |
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Death of Henry Purcell (composer) |
| 1701 |
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England joins Grand Alliance against Louis XIV |
| 1702 |
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Anne comes to English throne |
| 1703 |
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Death of Samuel Pepys (diarist) |
| 1704 |
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English under Duke of Marlborough defeat French at Blenheim |
| 1704 |
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Death of John Locke (philosopher) |
| 1707 |
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England and Scotland become United Kingdom of Great Britain |
| 1713 |
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Treaty of Utrecht - England gain favourable peace with France |
| 1714 |
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Queen Anne, last of the Stuarts, dies |
