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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1720_in_Great_Britain10 February – Edmond Halley is appointed Astronomer Royal by George I17 February – Treaty of The Hague signed between Britain, France, Austria, the Dutch Republic and Spain ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance. April – "South Sea Bubble": A scheme for the South Sea Company to take over most of … Meer weergeven
Events from the year 1720 in Great Britain. Meer weergeven
• 13 January – Richard Hurd, bishop and writer (died 1808)
• 27 January (bapt.) – Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor (died 1777)
• 9 March – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, politician (died 1790) Meer weergeven• 31 January – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, privy councillor (born c. 1645)
• 20 April – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1637)
• 5 August – Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, English poet (born 1661) Meer weergevenWikipedia-tekst onder CC-BY-SA-licensie- https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/South-…
10-09-2022 · Then, in 1720, parliament allowed the South Sea Company to take over the national Debt. The company purchased the £32 million national debt at the cost of £7.5 million. The purchase also came with assurances that …
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1720
• January – Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania (b. 1651)
• January 4 – Harry Mordaunt, British politician (b. 1663)
• January 10 – Ramon Perellos, Spanish 64th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1637)Wikipedia · Tekst onder CC-BY-SA-licentie- Millennium: 2nd millennium
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- People in Britain drank, gambled and fought duels. Moralists worried about the rise in sexual promiscuity and a decline in family values. They preached on the need for women to resist men inflamed by libertine principles and pornographic literature and the need for women to remain virgins until marriage. Prostitution was rampant. A German visitor t...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_British_history_(1600–1699)The governance of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland remained separate until 1707, and until then in most ways the Scots were excluded from sharing in the English …
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To prevent further blows of this kind, the Whig elite ended its schism in April 1720. The royal family temporarily buried its differences at the same time. The restoration of unity was just as …
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31-07-2019 · October - November 1720 'South Sea Bubble' bursts and triggers a financial panic The South Sea Company was a financial and trading organisation mainly dealing with Spanish …
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15 June – King Charles dissolves Parliament after it refuses to grant him Tonnage and Poundage rights; imposes forced loans. [1] 26 June – King Charles expels Queen Henrietta Maria's …
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1700 in England - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_in_England27 February – the island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier in the western Pacific. [1] early March – William Congreve 's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the …
