 1711 - 1740 (29 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1712 | - 1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
- 1712: Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession
- 1712: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender
- 1712: First Prime Minister Robert Walpole - 1742 (Whig)
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| 2 | 1714 | - 1714: George I King of England 1714 - 1727
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| 3 | 1719 | - 1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
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| 4 | 1723 | - 1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching
- 1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
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| 5 | 1725 | |
| 6 | 1727 | - 1727: George II King of England 1727 - 1760
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| 7 | 1729 | - 1729: Methodists formed at Oxford
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| 8 | 1730 | |
| 9 | 1733 | - 1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
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| 10 | 1738 | - 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
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