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Events relating to england
The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar
On the death of her brother-in-law, William III, Anne becomes queen of England and Scotland
The Act of Union merges England and Scotland as 'one kingdom by the name of Great Britain', a century after the union of the crowns
The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in Britain's coffee houses, followed two years later by the Spectator
Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale discovers the use of coke in the smelting of pig iron
Thomas Newcomen creates a piston steam engine, with the steam condensed in the cylinder by a jet of cold water
Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London
Machines are thrown out of the window of a Spitalfields factory, in an early protest against industrialization
The Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian, ancestors of all thoroughbred racehorses, are imported into England
25-year-old George Berkeley attacks Locke in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Handel's success in London with his opera Rinaldo prompts him to settle in Britain
Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry
On the death of Queen Anne, the Act of Settlement delivers the British crown to the elector of Hanover, as George I
The British government offers a massive £20,000 prize for a chronometer capable of keeping accurate time at sea
Colen Campbell creates interest in the Palladian style in Britain with the publication of his Vitruvius Britannicus
The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel
Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble
Robert Walpole becomes Britain's chief minister and holds the post for an unrivalled span of twenty-one years
16-year-old Benjamin Franklin contributes the 'Dogood Papers', essays on moral topics, to a Boston journal, The New England Courant
General Wade, commander-in-chief of North Britain, begins an impressive programme of road construction in the Scottish Highlands
Jonathan Swift launches his hero on a series of bitterly satirical adventures in Gulliver's Travels
On the death of his father, George I, George II becomes king of Great Britain
Handel composes Zadok the Priest for the crowning of George II, and it has been sung at every subsequent British coronation
John and Charles Wesley form a Holy Club at Oxford which becomes the cradle of Methodism
