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Charles II
A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649. -
The Plague
The 1665–66 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic; it was remembered afterwards as the "great" plague mainly because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the 400-year timespan of the Second Pandemic -
The Great Fire
consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.The death toll is unknown but traditionally thought to have been small, as only six verified deaths were recorded. -
James II
William of Orange to land an invasion army from the Netherlands, which he did in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James fled England (and thus was held to have abdicated).[4] He was replaced by his eldest, Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. -
Alexander Pope
a mock-heroic narrative poem, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued in an edition "Written by Mr. Pope" on 4 March 1714 a five-canto version -
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies -
Voltaire`s "Candide"
The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimismby Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world -
George III
Until re-assessment occurred during the second half of the twentieth century, his reputation in the United States was one of a tyrant and in Britain he became "the scapegoat for the failure of imperialisim -
Stamp Act
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. -
Poems on Various Subjects
A collection of 39 poems, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. -
A Vindictation of the RIghts of Woman
one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. -
Napoleon
