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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1705 | - 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710
or 1711)
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1712 | - 1712—1712: Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1726 | - 1726—1726: Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
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| 6 | 1731 | - 1731—1731: Invention of sextant by John Hadley
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| 7 | 1733 | - 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in
Latin for a few years
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| 8 | 1739 | - 7 Apr 1739—7 Apr 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
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| 9 | 1744 | - 1744—1744: Tune 'God Save the King' makes its appearance
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| 10 | 1746 | - 16 Apr 1746—16 Apr 1746: Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain - 5,000 Highlanders routed by
the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to
Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited
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1705 - 1749 (43 years)
