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Long Parliament
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English Civil War
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Charles I executed
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Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
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Cromwell dies
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Isaac Newton's "Principia"
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Glorious Revolution
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Locke's 2nd Treatise of Government
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Act of Union with Scotland
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Enclosure Act
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Hanoverian Dynasty begins
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Kay's Flying Shuttle invented
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William Pitt the Elder becomes Prime Minister
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Cartwright's power loom invented
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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Jeremy Bentham's ideas about utilitarianism
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Act of Union with Ireland
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Luddites protest against new machines
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Corn Laws passed
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Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages
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Reform Act
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Poor Laws
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Chartists
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Queen Victoria coronation
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Irish Potato Famine
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Corn Laws repealed
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Darwin's Origin of Species published
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Reform Act
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Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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Reform Act
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Kipling's "White Man's Burden"
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Queen Victoria abdicates