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London Theaters reopen;actresses appear onstage for the first time.
Women were the first allowed to act on stage. It brought a variety of changes to the theatre. Before young boys would perform a womens role. -
Charles II is proclaimed King of England (crowned in 1661)
In April 1660 Charles issued the Declaration of Breda, promising a general amnesty and freedom of conscience. Parliament accepted the Declaration and he was proclaimed King on 8 May 1660. Charles landed at Dover on 26 May 1660, and entered London three days later. He was crowned at Westminster on 23 April 1661. -
Plague claims more than 68,000 people in London.
This plague began in the late 1664 by 1665 it killed 68,000 peope in just that year. King Charles II fled London. -
Great Fire destorys much of London
Most houses at this time were made of wood and pitch construction, so the fire was easily spread. The winds in the night made it spread even more as well, The Church of St. Margaret was burned too. Some 430 acres, as much as 80% of the city proper was destroyed, including 13,000 houses, 89 churches, and 52 Guild Halls. Thousands of citizens found themselves homeless and financially ruined -
Glorious(BLoodless):Revolution James II is suceeded by Protestant rulers of William and Mary
The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William . William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascending of the English throne as William III of England jointly with his wife Mary II of England, in conjunction with the documentation of the Bill of Rights 1689. -
Alexander Pope publishes part of The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock is a heroic narrative poem. The poem satirises a minor incident comparing it to gods. -
Swift publishes A Modest Proposal, protesting Enlgish treatment of the Irish poor.
When this was published Ireland was far more poorer than England. The landlords were paid from the produce of the land, at rates which the workers could rarely afford. This ruling class were usually Protestants. -
Voltaire Publishes Candide
is a clever satire of France in the mid-18th century. He makes fun of religious intolerance, the destructiveness of war, and the foibles of mankind. He concludes with a plea that we should all cultivate our own gardens. -
George III is crowned king of England ;becomes known as the king who lost the American Colonies
George III led England’s successful resistance to Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and presided over the loss of the American Revolution. After suffering mental illness, he spent his last decade being mentally ill and blind. -
British Parliament passes Stamp Act for Taxing American Colonies.
The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Many colonist thouht this was unconstitutional. -
Boston Tea Party occurs
Colonists disguised as mohawk indians board three ships British tea ships and dump tea into the harbor. This was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773 -
African American poet Phillis Wheatley's poems on Various Subject, Religious and Moral is published in London.
The first African-American published Book of poetry. Wheatley grew up to be a poet. Her collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published on September 1, 1773 -
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
This was the first great feminist treatise. It preached that intellect will always govern and sought “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonimous [sic] with epithets of weakness. -
Napoleon heads revolutionary government in France.
During the French Revolution The Directory’s four years in power were riddled with financial crises, popular discontent, inefficiency and, above all, political corruption. As frustration with their leadership reached a fever pitch, Napoleon staged a plan, abolishing the Directory and appointing himself France’s first consul. The event marked the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic era, in which France would come to dominate much of continental Europe.
