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| 1706 |
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| First life insurance office opened. | 1 |
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| 1707, May 1 |
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| UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND under the name of Great Britain. This measure was necessary because Scotland was omitted from the Act of Succession. It established one Parliament with Scottish representation (16 in Lords, 45 in Commons) and stopped the creation of any more Scottish peers. Scottish law, legal administration, and the Church remained unchanged; the Adoption of the Union Jack (Crosses of St. George and St. Andrew) as national flag. | 2 |
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| 1708, March |
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| James Edward (the Old Pretender, son of James II, d. 1701) landed in Scotland, but the French fleet assisting him was beaten and he returned to France. | 3 |
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| 1710–20 |
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| South Sea Bubble. Speculation on stock in the South Sea Company led to panic when the stock crashed and speculators lost large amounts of money. | 4 |
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| 1711 |
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| Occasional Conformity Bill stopped dissenters from technically satisfying the Test Act by taking communion once in an Anglican Church and attending a nonconformist “chapel” regularly. | 5 |
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| 1711 |
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| Qualification Act established a landed property qualification on all members of Parliament in an effort to exclude merchants, financiers, and industrialists (repealed 1866 but never rigorously enforced). | 6 |
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| 1711 |
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| Stamp duty on newspapers introduced. | 7 |
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| 1713, April 11 |
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| Treaty of Utrecht (See 1713, April 11). | 8 |
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| 1714 |
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| Schism Act stopped dissenters from running schools or tutoring privately. | 9 |
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| Sept. 18 |
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| George I landed in England. He favored a Whig ministry. Lord Townshend, secretary of state. | 10 |
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