1703 - 1732 (28 years)
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Yes
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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1702 | - 11 Mar 1702—11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
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| 2 | 1707 | - 16 Jan 1707—16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English
Parliament
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| 3 | 1710 | - 1710—1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
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| 4 | 1711 | - 11 Aug 1711—11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
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| 5 | 1712 | - 1712—1712: Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
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| 6 | 1714 | - 1714—1714: Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
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| 7 | 1715 | - 1 Aug 1715—1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
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| 8 | 1723 | - 1723—1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
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| 9 | 1727 | - 11 Jun 1727—11 Jun 1727: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
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