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London theaters reopen;
For 20 years, the London theatres were closed to the public, but when King Charles II at last returned from exile in Europe, the theatre started up again. -
plague claims more than 68,000 people in london.
The largest of these were the Plague of Justinian of 541–542, The Black Death of the 1340s, continuing in the Second plague pandemic to break out at intervals, and the Third plague pandemic beginning in 1855 and considered inactive from 1959. -
great fire destroys much of london
436 acres of London were destroyed, including 13,200 houses and 87 out of 109 churches. -
glorious (bloodless): Revolution James II is succeded by protestant rulers of william and mary
William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascending of the English throne as William III of England. -
Alexander Pope publishes part of The Rape of the Lock
The two references aptly describe the difference in the lives of Ireland's Catholics and the Protestant English living in Ireland. -
Voltaire publishes Candide
The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide or, All for the Best (1759) Candide or, The Optimist (1762) and Candide or, Optimism (1947). -
George III is crowned king of England
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death..King who lost American colonies -
The british parlament passes stamp act for taxing American colonies
Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea Party happened in 3 British ships in the Boston Harbor. -
African American poet Phillis Wheatly's Poems on Various Subject, Religious and Moral is published in london
Although she was an African slave, Phillis Wheatley was one of the best-known poets in prenineteenth-century America. -
Nopoleon heads revolutionary goverment in france
The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon that rapidly brought many of its principles to Western Europe and beyond. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas. -
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, basically the first feminist philosophical work, was published in 1792
