The Chestnut Avenue through Bushy Park is laid out for William III to a design by Sir Christopher Wren

Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen

The Banqueting House at Hampton Court is built with carving by Grinling Gibbons and a painted interior which is the work, at least in part, of Antonio Verrio

The original medieval Milbourne House is largely rebuilt

The Act of Settlement declares that no Catholic may inherit the English crown

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

Work begins on a house for Richard Hill, brother of Queen Anne's confidante Mrs Masham, which is named for two stone trumpeters either side of the portico

The Mortlake Tapestry workshops are closed

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

Sir Godfrey Kneller buys and demolishes an earlier house and builds a new house, Whitton Hall, which is later known as Kneller Hall, on the site.

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

James Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, commissions John James to design his new house, to become known later as Orleans House.

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

Nave and chancel of St Mary's Church collapse leaving only the fifteenth-century tower, itself the survivor of an earlier building.

Edward Proger dies in Bushy House at the age of 96

The Diana or Arethusa Fountain, decorated with bronze sculptures by Hubert Le Sueur, is placed in the centre of the round pond in Bushy Park

On the death of Queen Anne, the Act of Settlement delivers the British crown to the elector of Hanover, as George I