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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1692 | - 13 Feb 1692—13 Feb 1692: The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and
murders members of Clan McDonald
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| 2 | 1697 | - 2 Dec 1697—2 Dec 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
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| 3 | 1698 | - 1698—1698: Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
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| 4 | 1702 | - 11 Mar 1702—11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
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| 5 | 1703 | - 4 Aug 1703—4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
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| 6 | 1705 | - 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710
or 1711)
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| 7 | 1707 | - 16 Jan 1707—16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English
Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in
March
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| 8 | 1712 | - 1712—1712: Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
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| 9 | 1714 | - 1714—1714: Longitude Act: prize of ?20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of
determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
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1692 - 1725 (33 years)
