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Event
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1720 |
South Sea Bubble: a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley. |
*South Sea Bubble
*Economics |
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1720 |
Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton. |
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1720 |
Penelope Aubin, The Strange Adventures of the Count of Vinevil and his Family, The Life of Mme. de Beaumont.
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1721 |
Montesquieu, Lettres persanes. |
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1722 |
Sir Robert Walpole rises to power (made Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury); Newcastle made Second Secretary of State: "through Newcastle, the appointment to every office in church and state, no matter how small, was made conditional on loyalty to Walpole"; this is a change from the previous practice of granting appointments to the greatest "Wits" of the age. |
*Economics |
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1722 |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. |
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1722 |
Eliza Haywood, The British Recluse. |
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1722 |
Penelope Aubin, The Noble Slaves, The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda. |
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1722 |
Sir Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers, a sentimental comedy. |
*Sensibility |
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1723 |
The Workhouse Act or Test (to get relief, the poor person has to enter the Workhouse). The Waltham Black Act adds 50 capital offenses to the penal code: people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching. This Act has been said to "signal the onset of the floodtide of eighteenth-century retributive justice" (Thompson 23). Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate. |
*Poor Law
*Economics |
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1723 |
Bernard Mandeville, "Essay on Charity" in Fable of the Bees (2nd ed). |
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1723 |
Penelope Aubin, The Life of Carlotta DuPont. |
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1724 |
Daniel Defoe, Roxana. |
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1724 |
Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters. |
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1724 |
Eliza Haywood, The Masqueraders, Fantomina, Fatal Secret, Idalia (published together as
The Masquerade Novels). |
*The Masquerade Novels |
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1724 |
Eliza Haywood, The Rash Resolve. |
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1725 |
Frances Hutcheson, Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue. |
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1725 |
Giambattista Vico, Scienza Nuova. |
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1725 |
Eliza Haywood, Bath Intrigues, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdoms of Utopia. |
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1725 |
Charles Towers is executed in London, the first victim of the Black Act. Whether Towers had actually engaged in Blacking, or was just dirty as he claimed in his defence, is open to question. |
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1725 - 1726 |
Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria. |
*France
*Spain |
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1726 |
Bolingbroke begins publishing the opposition journal The Craftsman. |
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1726 |
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. |
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1726 |
James Thomson, Winter of The Seasons. |
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1726 |
Penelope Aubin, The Life and Adventures of Lady Lucy. |
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