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London Theatres reopen
Actresses appear onstage for the first time, also Charles II restored to the throne. Reopening of the theaters -
Chalres 2 is proclaimed kind of eglad crowned in 1661
The Resotration of the English monarchy offically began in 1660 when the English, Scottish, and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II. -
Plague claims more than 68,000 people in london
The Black Death: Bubonic Plague.The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. -
Great fire destroys much of london
Fire destroys the City of London due to fire accident -
Glorious (Bloodless);Revolution james 2 is successed by protestant rulers of william mary
The Glorious Revolution.
James II exiled and succeeded by his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange -
Alexander Pope Publishes Part of the Rape of The Lock
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-herioc narrative written by Alexander Pope. The poem satirizes a petty conflict by comparing it to the the world of the gods. -
Swift Publishes a Modest Proposal, protesting english treatment of the Irish Poor
n A Modest Proposal, Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. The essay mocks the heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general. -
Voltaire Publishes Candide
Voltair publishes the book candide -
George 3 is crowneed kind of england; becomes known as the kind who lost the american colonies
George III succeeds to the throne -
British Parliment passes stamp act for taxing american colonies
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
African American poet philis wheatly's poems on various subject
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is a collection of 39 poems. Wheatley broke barriers as the first American black woman to be published. People questioned whether or not Wheatley had written the poems herself and men such as John Hancock, Thomas Hutchinson, and Andrew Oliver signed an attestation clause verifying that they believed Wheatley had written the poems herself. -
Boston tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Mary Wollstoncraft publishes a vindication of the rights of woman
Vindication of the Rights of Women was published in response to the educaton and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe that women should have an education. -
Napoleon heads revolutionary goverment in france
After a series of whirlwind victories, General Bonaparte led his victorious army into Milan on May 5, 1799. The Milanese greeted him as a heroic liberator, the general who freed them from the rule of the Austrian emperor Francis I.
