Imprisonment of John Bunyan,
1660-72 [see also this link and
this one]
Charles II marries Catherine of
Braganza, 1662
Opening
of the 1st turnpike at Wadesmill, Hertford, 1663 [see also this page]
Great Plague
of London, 1665
Fire of London, 1666 [see
also this page]
Charles II begins his affair with Nell Gwynne,
1668 [see also this page]
John Dryden appointed poet
laureate and royal histographer, 1670
Popish Plot, 1678
Henry Purcell named composer-in-ordinary to the King,
1680
Rye House plot to assassinate Charles II, 1683
Sir Isaac Newton states
laws of
motion and theory of gravitation, 1687
[see also this page and this one]
beginning of England's
national debt, 1693
Sir Isaac Newton publishes Opticks,
1704 [see Newton links above]
Thomas Newcomen invents
the first practical steam engine, 1712
South Sea Bubble, 1720
John and Charles Wesley
and the beginnings of Methodism, 1729
John Kay invents the
flying shuttle or
weaving machine, 1733
Porteous Riots, 1736
Founding of the Black
Watch, 1739 [see also this page
and also this one]
the last official beheading in England, 1747 [see this site]
Horace
Walpole builds Strawberry Hill, 1747 [see also this page and this one]
Encyclopedia, first
encyclopedia by Diderot published, 1751-1772
Samuel Johnson's
Dictionary, the first comprehensive English dictionary, 1755 [see also this page]
The Black Hole of Calcutta, 1756
George III marries Charlotte, 1761 [see this page]
John Wilkes challenges General Warrants/Wilkes Riots 1763
Journeys of Captain James Cook,
1768-79
Invention of Sir Richard
Arkwright's water frame or water-powered spinning machine,
1769
James Watt perfects the
steam engine, 1769
Boston Tea Party, 1773
Suicide of Robert Clive,
1774
Antoine
Lavoisier discovers the nature of combustion, 1777
James Hargreaves invents the
spinning jenny, 1779
Gordon Riots, 1780
First hot-air balloon
ascent, 1783 [see also this
site and this
one]
the Prince of Wales secretly
marries Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert, 1785 [see this page]
Edmund Cartwright invents the
power loom, 1785 [see also this
page]
Declaration of Breda, 1660
Restoration of Charles II, 1660
Cavalier Parliament, 1661-79
Test Act, 1673
Habeas Corpus Act, 1679
Death of Charles II, Coronation of
James II, 1685
The Killing Times, 1684-5
Bloody
Assizes, 1685
William and Mary crowned,
1689
Bill of Rights,
1689
Act of Settlement,
1700-1
Queen Anne crowned, 1702
Act of Union, 1707
George I becomes king,
1714
George II becomes king,
1727
Repeal of the Witchcraft Statutes, 1736
Hardwicke's Marriage Act,
1753
George III becomes king,
1760
Stamp Act, 1765 [see
also this
page
Mansfield Judgement, 1772 (Abolition of Slavery)
Capture of New Amsterdam (the future state of New York) in the Dutch Wars, 1664
Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685 (English Civil Wars)
Battle of the Boyne, 1690 (Glorious Revolution)
Massacre of
Glencoe,
1692 (unjust slaughter of large number of members of the MacDonald
clan)
Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
War of
Jenkins'
Ear, 1739-48
Battle of Culloden, 1746 (Jacobite `45' Rebellion)
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 (War of the Austrian Succession)
Robert Clive seizes Arcot in India, 1751
Battle of Quebec, 1759 (Seven Years' War)
Battle of Yorktown, 1781
(American Revolution) [see also this page]