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Romatic Era
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Roman Catholic preists banned from Massachusetts
Massachusetts passes a law ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave the colony within three months, upon penalty of life imprisonment or execution -
Queen Anne
Queen Anne ascends the English throne. In May, England declares war on France after the death of the King of Spain, Charles II, to stop the union of France and Spain. This War of the Spanish Succession is called Queen Anne's War in the colonies, where the English and American colonists will battle the French, their Native American allies, and the Spanish for the next eleven years. -
Treaty of Utrecht
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Tea
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Slaves
The first slaves arrive in the territory of Louisiana -
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Coleridge
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King George
King George II ascends the English throne -
England vs. Spain
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Currency Act
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East India Company rules much of India
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William Blake
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The procomation of 1763
All colonists west of the Appalachian moutains must move back -
Declaratory Act
England passes an act that says they have total governing power over the Colonists. -
Boston Massacre
English soidlers kill unarmed colonists -
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William Wordsworth
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Boston Tea Party
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Lord Byron
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Songs of innocence and of experience
William Blakes best work -
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Cotton Gin invented
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John Keats
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Rime of the ancent mariner
Coleridge greatest work -
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Wordsworth greatest work -
Ozymandias
One of Shelleys greatest works -
Don Juan
Byron's Greatest work -
Ode on a grecian urn
Keat's greatest work -
British seize Shanghai