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London theaters reopen; actresses appear onstage for the first time
With the reopening of the theatres after the Restoration, women were for the first time allowed to act on the stage. Previously, female roles had been performed by young boys. The advent of women actors opened up a world of titillation and scandal, appreciated by audiences from all levels of society; from merchants to nobles and even King Charles II himself. It also brought about a variety of changes to the theatre. -
Charles II is proclamied kinf of England (crowned in 1661)
Charles II was king of England, Scotland and Ireland, whose restoration to the throne in 1660 marked the end of republican rule in England. -
Plauge claims more than 68,000 people in London
people were dying everyday and was a big setback in history -
Great fire destroys much of London
The Great Fire of London began on the night of September 2, 1666, as a small fire on Pudding Lane, in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II. At one o'clock in the morning, a servant woke to find the house aflame, and the baker and his family escaped, but a fear-struck maid perished in the blaze. -
Glorious (Bloodless): Revolution James II is succeeded by Protestant rulers of William and Mary
To end the Glorious Revolution, William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights of 1689. -
Alexander Pope publishes part of The Rape of the Lock
The Raoe of the Lock is published -
Swift publishes A Modest Proposal, protesting English treatment of the irish poor
the english people would go and treat all the irish poorly -
Voltire publishes Candide
Candide is published -
Gerorge III is crowned king of England; Becomes known as the king who lost the ameican colonies
he is known as the king who lost the american colonies becuase he could not stop them from leaving and becuase they had won thier freedom -
African American poet Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subject, Religious and Moral is published in London
she feels people should know how he feels so he writes these poems -
Boston Tea Party
the rebels throw all the tea in the boston harbor -
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindications of theRights of Women
she publishes this becuase she believes women deserve thier rights -
Napolean heads revolutionary goverment in France
the beginning of the french revolutionary war
