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• 1660: Birth of Daniel Defoe, English author
• 1660: Birth of Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician
• 1660: Birth of George I, King of Great Britain
• 1660: Charles II approves the Navigation Act, which requires that only English ships be allowed to trade in North America, and limits exports of tobacco and sugar to England and its colonies. The act is revised in 1663
• 1660: Charles II assumes the throne of Great Britain in the Restoration
• 1660: Filippo di Chiese builds first long distance coach in Berlin
• 1660: Jan Vermeer, Maidservant Pouring Milk and View of Delft
• 1660: John Dryden, Astraea Redux
• 1660: John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way
• 1660: John Natick establishes the first church for American Indians at Natick.
• 1660: Louis XIV of France marries Maria Teresa, the Infanta of Spain
• 1660: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Satires
• 1660: Rembrandt, St. Peter Denying Christ
• 1660: Samuel Pepys begins his Diary
• 1660: The first cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen in Germany's Black Forest
• 1660: Astronomer Hevelius catalogues 1,500 stars
• 1660: Vermeer, Young Girl Reading a Letter
• 1661: Birth of Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect
• 1661: Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus (on the nature of air and the duplication of the cube)
• 1661: Gauthier de Costes de la Calpranede, Pharamond in 12 vols. (through 1670)
• 1661: Huygens invents the mamometer to measure the expansion of gases
• 1661: Louis XIV of France begins his personal rule at the age of fourteen
• 1661: Marcello Malpighi discovers capillary blood vessels
• 1661: Molière, L'Ecole des maris (The School for Husbands), at the Palais-Royal, Paris
• 1661: Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, challenges the classical notion of the four elements
• 1661: The Corporation Act allows only Anglicans to hold municipal office
• 1661: The fruit and vegetable market at Covent Garden opens in London
• 1661: Thomas Traherne, English poet, receives his M.A. from Brasenose College
• 1662: Birth of Mary II, Queen of England
• 1662: Birth of Mattheus Poppelman,, German architect
• 1662: Blaise Pascal begins omnibus service in Paris
• 1662: Charles II grants John Winthrop, Jr., a royal charter for the Connecticut colonies
• 1662: Charles II of England marries Catherine de Braganza of Portugal
• 1662: England sells Dunkirk to France
• 1662: Michael Wigglesworth, The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
• 1662: Molière, L'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives)
• 1662: Pierre Corneille, Sertorius
• 1662: Robert Boyle announces what is now known as Boyle's Law (volume and pressure in a gas are inversely proportional)
• 1662: The Act of Settlement in England allows the poor to receive help only from their native parish
• 1662: The Act of Uniformity requires all Anglicans to accept the Book of Common Prayer in order to hold public office
• 1662: The Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge in England receives its charter
• 1662: The first issue of Poor Robin's Almanac
• 1662: Fermat develops the optical principle of least time
• 1662: Robert Boyle establishes his gas law, that PV is constant
• 1663: Glaser, Traité de la chimie
• 1663: Blaise Pascal, On the Equilibrium of Liquids
• 1663: 8 July: Charles II of England issues the Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• 1663: A major earthquake strikes the area between the Adirondack Mountains and the St. Lawrence Valley
• 1663: A plague outbreak in Amsterdam, Holland, kills ten thousand
• 1663: Birth of Anne Bracegirdle, actress (approximate date)
• 1663: Eight proprietors are granted Carolina in the New World by Charles II
• 1663: February: John Dryden, The Wild Gallant
• 1663: James Gregory introduces the principle of the reflecting telescope
• 1663: John Dryden marries the sister of Sir Robert Howard
• 1663: John Newton formulates the binomial theorem
• 1663: July: Second Navigation Act forbids English colonists to trade with other European countries
• 1663: Leibnitz, De principiis individui
• 1663: March 24: Charles II rewards eight courtiers with the Carolina territory (from Virginia to Florida)
• 1663: May 7: Drury Lane opens with a revival of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant (1620)
• 1663: Nicolaus Sterno of Denmark discovers that the heart is a muscle
• 1663: Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 2
• 1664: Birth of Andreas German sculptor and architect, Andreas Schlütter
• 1664: Birth of John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist
• 1664: Charles Cotten, The Compleat Gamester
• 1664: Charles II grants the land between the Delaware River and the Connecticut River to his brother, the Duke of York; the Duke of York makes a proprietary grant of the area between the Delaware and the Hudson to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley, founding New Jersey
• 1664: December: The first reports of the plague in London, as two Frenchmen die in Drury Lane
• 1664: France begins building 150 mile Canal du Midi
• 1664: George Etherege, The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub
• 1664: Heinrich Schütz, Christmas Oratorio
• 1664: Jan Steen, The Christening Feast
• 1664: Jan Vermeer, The Lacemaker
• 1664: Jean de la Fontaine, Contes et Nouvelles en verse
• 1664: John Dryden, The Royal Ladies, Theatre Royal
• 1664: July: Pierre Corneille, Othon, Hötel de Bourgogne, Paris
• 1664: June: Jean Baptiste Racine, La Thébaïde, ou les frères ennemis (The Thebans, or The Enemy Brothers), Palais-Royal, Paris
• 1664: Maryland requires lifelong servitude from black slaves; New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas, and Virginia follow suit with similar laws
• 1664: Molière, Le mariage forcé (The Forced Marriage), Palais-Royal, Paris
• 1664: Nell Gwyn's acting debut
• 1664: New Netherlands is annexed by England
• 1664: Nicolas Poussin, Apollo and Daphne
• 1664: Plague kills twenty-four thousand in Amsterdam and spreads to Brussels
• 1664: René Descartes, Traité de l'homme et de la formation du foetus, argues that the blood circulates at all times
• 1664: Sir Robert Howard and John Dryden, The Indian Queen
• 1664: The English and the French become rivals over India
• 1664: The English defeat the Dutch and capture Delaware
• 1664: Thomas Browne gives evidence against two English women who are condemned as witches
• 1664: When Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Nieuw Amsterdam, the British take control; the city is renamed New York, for James, Duke of York
• 1664: Work begins on the Canal du Midi which will link the Mediterranean to Biscay (completed 1681)
• 1665: Journal des Savants, first literary periodical
• 1665: April: John Dryden, The Indian Emperor, Theatre Royal
• 1665: Birth of Jonathan Richardson, Senior, painter
• 1665: Borromini finishes Rome's Church of San Andrea della Fratte
• 1665: Charles II's court moves to Salisbury, then Exeter, to escape the plague
• 1665: December: The worst part of the plague is over, after nearly seventy thousand die
• 1665: François de la Rouchefoucauld, Maximes
• 1665: Francis Grimaldi explains the diffraction of light
• 1665: Isaac Newton experiments with light and gravitation
• 1665: Izaak Walton, The Life of Richard Hooker
• 1665: Jan Vermeer, The Artist's Studio
• 1665: June 3: The second Anglo-Dutch War begins with an English victory over the Dutch fleet at Lowestoft
• 1665: June: The plague begins to rage in London
• 1665: New Jersey founded
• 1665: November 19: Death of Nicolas Poussin
• 1665: Rembrandt, Juno and The Jewish Bride
• 1665: Richard Head, The English Rogue
• 1665: Robert Hooke discovers cells in live plants
• 1665: September 17: Death of Philip IV of Spain
• 1666: Birth of Queen Anne of England
• 1666: Colbert founds an academy of sciences (Académie Royale des Sciences) in France
• 1666: France and Holland declare war on England
• 1666: Great Fire of London
• 1666: Jean Cassini observes the Martian polar caps for the first time
• 1666: John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis (part 2, 1667)
• 1666: Molière, The Misanthrope and Le médecin malgré lui (The Doctor in Spite of Himself)
• 1666: September 2: Great Fire of London begins, lasting four days and destroying eighty-seven churches (including old St. Paul's) and thirteen thousand buildings
• 1666: Sir Isaac Newton determines the laws of gravity by determining the lunar orbit, discovers the spectrum, and develops calculus
• 1666: The University of Lund in Sweden is founded
• 1667: 21 July: The Treaties of Breda end the second Anglo-Dutch War
• 1667: 3 August: Death of Francesco Borromini, Italian architect
• 1667: August: John Milton, Paradise Lost, A Poem in Ten Books
• 1667: Birth of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
• 1667: Birth of Jonathan Swift
• 1667: Cassini named Director of the newly founded Paris National Observatory
• 1667: Christopher Wren is contracted to redesign many of the buildings lost in the Great Fire
• 1667: France invades Flanders and Hainault, beginning the War of Devolution
• 1667: Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini completes the Piazza San Pietro in Rome
• 1667: Jan Vermeer, Girl with a Red Hat
• 1667: January 24: Nell Gwyn plays Florimel
• 1667: Jean Baptiste Denis performs the first blood transfusion (from a lamb to a boy)
• 1667: Jean Racine, Andromacque
• 1667: John Dryden, Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, Theatre Royal
• 1667: John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-All, or the Feign'd Innocence
• 1667: Robert Hooke shows the relationship between circulation and respiration
• 1667: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz enters the Convent of Discalced Carmelites of St. Joseph, where she spends three months
• 1667: The French National Observatory is founded in Paris
• 1668: 2 May: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution
• 1668: 2 May: Thomas Shadwell, The Sullen Lovers, or the Impertinents
• 1668: 26 February: George Etherege, She Would if She Could
• 1668: 4 October: Death of Rembrandt van Rijn
• 1668: Giornale de Letterati, first Italian magazine
• 1668: Antony Van Leeuwenhoek is the first to describe red corpuscles in the blood
• 1668: Birth of François Couperin, French composer
• 1668: Birth of French dramatist and novelist, Alain RenÉ Lesage
• 1668: Birth of Thomas Archer, architect
• 1668: Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck
• 1668: England, Holland, and Sweden form an alliance against Louis XIV of France
• 1668: Francesco Redi, Italian physician, argues against spontaneous generation by showing maggots do not develop in meat
• 1668: Grinling Gibbons, woodcarver, arrives in England from Rotterdam
• 1668: Isaac Newton makes first reflector
• 1668: Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, first six volumes
• 1668: John Dryden named poet laureate
• 1668: La Fontaine, Fables choisies mises en vers in 3 vols., through 1693
• 1668: Rembrandt, Self-Portrait
• 1668: Robert Hooke, Discourse on Earthquakes
• 1669: 13 December: Jean Racine, Britannicus
• 1669: 28 June: The Paris Opéra receives royal patent
• 1669: 5 February: Molière, Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur, Palais-Royal, Paris
• 1669: Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin
• 1669: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelhausen, Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch das ist; Beschreibung des Lebens eines Seltzamen Vagantens Genannt Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim
• 1669: Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, Simpicius Simplicissimus

• 1669: Jan Swammerdam, History of the Insects
• 1669: John Dryden, Tyrannic Love, or the Royal Martyr
• 1669: John Milton, Accidence Commenc't Grammar
• 1669: Niagara Falls discovered
• 1669: Niagra Falls discovered
• 1669: Nicolas Steno begins the modern study of Geology
• 1669: Robert Boyle discovers phosphorus
• 1669: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz enters the Convent of the Order of St. Jerome, where she remains until her death
• 1669: Thomas Traherne receives his B.D. from Brasenose College
• 1670: 1 January: Jean Racine, Bérénice, Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris
• 1670: 23 November: Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman), Palais-Royal, Paris
• 1670: André Lenôtre designs Paris's Champs-Elysées
• 1670: Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
• 1670: Birth of Frederick Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland
• 1670: Birth of Giovanni Bononcini, composer, in Bologna
• 1670: Birth of Thomas Doggett, actor, theater manager, and dramatist
• 1670: Birth of William Congreve, English dramatist
• 1670: Blaise Pascal, Pensées (posthumous)
• 1670: Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the secret Treaty of Dover
• 1670: Charleston, South Carolina, is founded
• 1670: Death of Frederick III of Denmark
• 1670: Dryden awarded English poet laureate and royal historiograher
• 1670: Gabriel Mouton of France proposes a standardized decimal system of measurement
• 1670: Hudson Bay Company formed (English)
• 1670: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (Part I), Theatre Royal
• 1670: John Milton, History of Britain
• 1670: John Ray, English Proverbs
• 1670: Jules Hardouin Mansart designs the classical architecture for LesInvalides
• 1670: Louis XIV of France founds Les Invalides in Paris, designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart
• 1670: Pascal, Pensees
• 1670: Pierre Corneille, Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice), Palais-Royal, Paris
• 1670: Secret treaty between Charles II and Louis XIV (Treaty of Dover)
• 1670: Spinoza, Tractatus theologico politicus
• 1670: Steel springs are invented for a smoother ride in England
• 1670: The Hudson Bay Company is founded
• 1670: Thomas Shadwell, The Humorists
• 1670: Thomas Willis of England describes the symptoms of diabetes
• 1671: Birth of Colley Cibber
• 1671: February: Nell Gwyn retires from the stage
• 1671: John Milton, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
• 1671: The Duke's Players move to Dorset Garden Theater
• 1671: Villiers (Buckingham), The Rehearsal
• 1672: Birth of Joseph Addison
• 1672: Birth of Peter I the Great, Tsar of Russia
• 1672: Birth of Richard Steele
• 1672: Drury Lane burns down
• 1672: England's Oxford Clarendon Press founded
• 1672: France invades Rhine as Dutch open dikes to flood Amsterdam to keep it from French rule
• 1672: John Dryden, Marriage a la Mode
• 1672: John Milton, The Art of Logic
• 1672: The Dutch open the dikes to flood Amsterdam, to keep it from French control
• 1672: The Royal Africa Company receives a monopoly on the English slave trade
• 1672: The laws of gravity defined by Issac Newton
• 1672: The root impecacuanha is first used medicinally
• 1673: England's Test Act excludes Roman Catholics from holding office
• 1673: John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, 2nd ed.
• 1673: Milton, Poems Upon Various Occasions
• 1673: The Test Acts allow only Anglicans to hold public office
• 1673: Thomas Traherne, Roman Forgeries
• 1674: 17 July: Birth of Isaac Watts in Southampton
• 1674: Birth of Philip of Orleans, Regent of France
• 1674: Death of Clarendon
• 1674: Death of John Milton
• 1674: Death of Thomas Traherne
• 1674: English engineer, Jethro Tull, borm
• 1674: John Milton, Paradise Lost, 2nd ed. (in twelve books)
• 1674: Nicholas Boileau Despréaux, L'Art poetique
• 1674: Nicolas Malebranche, The Search After Truth
• 1674: The Drury Lane Theater reopens
• 1675:
• September: Thomas Otway, Alcibiades, at Duke's Theatre, Dorset Garden
• 1675: Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
• 1675: Birth of Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter
• 1675: Birth of Sir James Thornill, painter
• 1675: Debut of Elizabeth Barry in Alcibiades
• 1675: England establishes the Royal Greenwich Observatory
• 1675: Giambattista Basile, Il Pentamerone
• 1675: King Philip's War begins in southern New England. Some 52 towns are attacked, and 600 settlers killed.
• 1676: Olaus Romer, a Danish astronomer, measures the speed of light
• 1675: The first portable watches appear in Germany and France around this time
• 1675: Thomas Traherne, Christian Ethics (posthumous)
• 1675: Van Leeuwenhoek refines the microscope, and sees protozoa for the first time
• 1675: William Wycherley, The Country Wife
• 1675: Work begins rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral after the London fire by Christopher Wren
• 1676: Birth of Colen Campbell, Scottish lawyer and architect
• 1676: Birth of Robert Walpole, British statesman
• 1676: June: Thomas Otway, Don Carlos, at Dorset Garden
• 1676: King Philip's War ends in New England
• 1676: Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode
• 1677: Aphra Behn, The Rover, at Dorset Theatre
• 1677: Birth of Stanislas Leszcznski, King of Poland
• 1677: Birth of Stephan Hales, English scientist
• 1677: Culpepper's Rebellion in the Carolinas (through 1680)
• 1677: Massachusetts Law restricts all American Indians to four Indian towns
• 1677: Spinoza, Ethics
• 1677: The first Russo-Turkish War (through 1681)
• 1678: Birth of Abraham Darby, English ironworker
• 1678: Birth of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
• 1678: Birth of George Farquhar, Irish dramatist
• 1678: Birth of Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
• 1678: John Dryden, All for Love
• 1678: Louis XIV and Leopold I sign the Treaty of Nijmegen
• 1678: Marie Madeleine Comtesse de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves
• 1678: Nahum Tate, Brutus of Alba, at Dorset Garden
• 1678: Peace of Nijmegen between Louis XIV and Leopold I
• 1678: Popish Plot: Titus Oates alleges a Jesuit plot to murder Charles II
• 1678: Test Acts allows the holding of public office only to Anglicans
• 1678: The Popish Plot triggers the Exclusion Crisis: Political crisis, as Shaftesbury leads the "Country" to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York, from succession in favour of Charles II's bastard son, James, Duke of Monmouth
• 1679: Aphra Behn, The Feigned Courtesans (Dedicated to Nell Gwyn)
• 1679: Denis Papin of France discovers that the boiling point of water depends on atmospheric pressure
• 1679: England passes the Habeas Corpus Act
• 1679: Habeas Corpus Act (England)
• 1679: Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect, becomes clerk to Sir Christopher Wren
• 1679: Plays by Nathaniel Lee are banned
• 1679: Sweden's Skokloster castle completed
• 1680: February: Thomas Otway, The Orphan
• 1680: John Ray begins his taxonomy of plants
• 1680: Sir William Temple, Miscellanies, ed. Jonathan Swift, vol. 1 (subsequent volumes in 1692 and 1701)
• 1680: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Neptuno alegórico
• 1680: Thomas Otway, The Soldiers' Fortune
• 1681: Andrew Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems
• 1681: Birth of Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
• 1681: Bossuet, Discourse on Universal History
• 1681: Canal du Midi opens (see above)
• 1681: Nahum Tate and John Dryden, adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, at Dorset Garden
• 1681: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, "Autodefensa espiritual" (also known as "Carta de Monterrey")
• 1681: The Academy of Sciences is founded in Moscow, Russia
• 1681: The Canal du Midi (begun 1664) joins Biscay with the Mediterranean
• 1681: William Penn is granted the land that is later known as Pennsylvania
• 1682: Birth of James Gibbs, Scottish architect
• 1682: Edmund Halley discovers the comet that bears his name
• 1682: French philosopher Pierre Bayle's "Thoughts on the Comet" uses rationalism to dispel superstitions re:comets
• 1682: John Dryden, The Duke of Guise
• 1682: Joost van den Vondel, Poëzy of Verscheide gedichten
• 1682: La Salle claims Louisiana for France
• 1682: LaSalle claims Louisiana for France
• 1682: Lee, The Princess of Cleves
• 1682: Louis XIV moves government and court to Versailles
• 1682: Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles
• 1682: Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity
• 1682: Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved
• 1682: William Penn establishes Pennsylvania
• 1682: William Penn establishes the "Frame of Government" for Pennsylvania, and lays out the plans for Philadelphia
• 1683: Antony Van Leeuweknoek discovers bacteria
• 1683: Birth of Anne Oldfield, actress
• 1683: Birth of Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer
• 1683: Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen finished, later home of the Danish Royal Academy of Arts
• 1683: Christopher Wren designs Pidcadilly Circus and St. James Place
• 1683: Death of Whichcote
• 1683: George II, King of Great Britain 1760
• 1683: German settlers arrive in Pennsylvania and form Germantown, near Philadelphia
• 1683: Philip V, King of Spain 1746
• 1683: Sir Isaac Newton describes the effect of gravity on tides
• 1683: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Los empeños de una casa (The Trials of a Noble House)
• 1683: Thomas Otway, The Atheist
• 1683: Vienna falls to the Great Turkish Seige
• 1683: Vienna, Austria falls in the Great Turkish Siege
• 1684: Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres Dutch literary review
• 1684: Alexander Olivier Esquemeling, History of the Buccaneers of America (Dutch)
• 1684: Birth of Anne Oldfield, actress
• 1684: Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1727
• 1684: Charles II revokes the charter of Massachusetts
• 1684: French painter, Antoine Watteau 1721
• 1684: Giovani Paolo Marana's early spy story Letter Written by a Turkish Spy
• 1684: Robert Hooke invents the heliograph
• 1684: Thomas Otway, The Atheist
• 1685: 14 April: Death of Thomas Otway
• 1685: Birth of Aaron Hill, playwright and manager
• 1685: Birth of Domenico Scarlatti, composer
• 1685: Birth of Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel), composer
• 1685: Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
• 1685: Birth of John Gay, poet and playwright
• 1685: Birth of William Kent, painter, architect, and designer
• 1685: Charles VI, Austrian Emperor 1740
• 1685: Death of Charles II
• 1685: Edmund Waller, Divine Poems
• 1685: English writer, John Gay 1732
• 1685: Italian composer, Domenico Scarlatti 1750
• 1685: James II succeeds to the British throne
• 1685: Louis XIV of France revokes the Edict of Nantes, eliminating religious freedom for Protestants
• 1685: Monmouth Rebellion
• 1686: Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance
• 1686: Birth of William Law
• 1686: James II dissolves the colonial legislatures in North America, granting all legislative and judicial power to the king's representatives
• 1686: German physicist, Gabriel Fahrenheit 1736
• 1686: Scottish poet, Allan Ramsay 1758
• 1687: Death of Lully
• 1687: Death of Nell Gwyn
• 1687: Death of Waller
• 1687: Dryden, The Hind and the Panther
• 1687: William Winstanley'sLives of the English Poets
• 1688: Abraham Thevart casts the first plate glass
• 1688: Anne Bracegirdle becomes a member of the United Company
• 1688: Birth of Alexander Pope
• 1688: Birth of Lewis Theobald
• 1688: Birth of Swedenborg
• 1688: Frederick William I, King of Prussia 1740
• 1688: James II deposed and replaced (in 1689) by William and Mary in the "Glorious Revolution"
• 1688: Jonathan Richardson, Senior, studies under John Riley (until 1691)
• 1688: Leisler's Rebellion in New England (through 1691)
• 1688: Quakers in Pennsylvania issue a formal protest against slavery in North America
• 1688: Sir Godfrey Kneller appointed Principal Painter to William and Mary
• 1688: The Ring bayonet, invented by Vauban, is used for the first time by the French Army
• 1689: Andrew Marvell, Poems of Affair of State
• 1689: Anselm von Ziegler's baroque novel Die asiatische Banise
• 1689: Aphra Behn, The Widow Ranter
• 1689: Birth of Samuel Richardson
• 1689: Death of Aphra Behn
• 1689: English novelist, Samuel Richardson 1761
• 1689: James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras
• 1689: John Locke, On Civil Government
• 1689: John V the Magnanimous, King of Portugal 1750
• 1689: Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple and meets Esther Johnson ("Stella")
• 1689: King Williams's War in Canada
• 1689: Sir Richard Cox, Hibernia Anglicana (through 1690)
• 1689: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth)
• 1689: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Inundación castálida
• 1689: The Bill of Rights limits the powers of the monarchy over parliament and ratifies the Glorious Revolution
• 1689: Toleration Act passed in England
• 1690: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
• 1690: Christian Huygens proposes the first wave theory of light
• 1690: Colley Cibber's first appearance on the stage
• 1690: Denis Papin of France develops the first steam-powered vacuum pump
• 1690: Denis Papin works on precursor to steam engine
• 1690: Ireland's Battle of Boyne
• 1690: John Dryden, Amphytrion
• 1690: John Locke, Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
• 1690: Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• 1690: Penal laws passed to deny civil rights to Irish Catholics and Presbyterians
• 1690: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Carta atenagórica
• 1690: Vauban establishes the first modern engineer corps in France
• 1691: Death of George Fox
• 1691: John Vanbrugh begins writing his first play, The Provok'd Wife, in the Bastille
• 1691: Peter Schuyler leads a force of English and Dutch colonists to La Prairie, near Montréal, Canada
• 1691: Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony merge
• 1691: Sir William Petty, The Political Anatomy of Ireland, restates need for English priests and language to avoid English massacres
• 1691: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz composes Respuesta a sor Filotea (published posthumously)
• 1691: Treaty of Limerick
• 1692: English astronomer, James Bradley 1762
• 1692: German sculptor and architect, Egid Quirin Asam 1750
• 1692: John Dryden and Henry Purcell, King Arthur, performed at Dorset Garden
• 1692: Lord Mohun and others kill Mountfort, the actor, in an attempt to kill Anne Bracegirdle, actress
• 1692: Over one hundred fifty people are accused and twenty are hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
• 1692: Sir William Temple, Miscellanies, ed. Jonathan Swift, vol. 2 (other volumes in 1680 and 1701)
• 1692: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Segundo volumen, containing El sueño, El cetro de José, El mártir del Sacramento, San Hermenegildo, and El divino Narciso
• 1692: The College of William and Mary is founded in Williamsburg, Virginia
• 1692: Thomas Southerne, The Wives' Excuse
• 1692: William Congreve, Incognita
• 1693: Birth of G. Sammartini, composer
• 1693: Birth of Locatelli, composer
• 1693: England first runs a national debt
• 1693: English scientist, John Harrison 1762
• 1693: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) begins studying music under Zachau
• 1693: John Locke, Ideas on Education
• 1693: National debt begins in England
• 1693: Russian Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin is finished
• 1693: William Congreve, The Old Batchelor, played at Drury Lane; Anne Bracegirdle
• 1694: Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach completes Moravia's Frain Castle
• 1694: Bank of England founded
• 1694: Birth of H. R. Reimarus
• 1694: Birth of John Michael Rysbrack, sculptor
• 1694: Birth of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, architect and patron of the arts
• 1694: Christopher Rich becomes manager of the United Company
• 1694: English architect,Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) 1753
• 1694: Flemish sculptor living in England, John Michael Rysbrack 1770
• 1694: Jonathan Swift is ordained
• 1694: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, La protestia que rubrica con su sangre (Profession of the Faith Signed with Her Own Blood)
• 1694: Swedish chemist, George Brandt 1768
• 1694: The Bank of England is established
• 1694: The University of Halle is founded
• 1694: William Congreve, The Double Dealer
• 1695: Death of Henry Purcell, composer
• 1695: Death of Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz
• 1695: French sculptor, Louis Francois Roubiliac 1762
• 1695: John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
• 1695: Leibnitz' Systeme nouveau de la nature
• 1695: Licensing Act expires
• 1695: Licensing Act expires
• 1695: Nehemiah Grew isolates magnesium sulfate (epsom salts) from springwater
• 1695: Nicolaas Heinsius' novel, Den Vermakelijkten Avonturier
• 1695: Penal law: Stat. Ire. An Act to Restrain Foreign Education outlaws foreign education
• 1695: William Congreve, Love for Love
• 1696: Augustus III, King of Poland 1763
• 1696: Birth of Alphonsus Liguori
• 1696: Christian Reuter, Schelmuffsky
• 1696: Colley Cibber, Love's Last Shift
• 1696: Italian painter, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1770
• 1696: Jeremy Collier outlawed for his opposition to William III
• 1696: Jeremy Collier outlawed for his opposition to William III
• 1696: John Toland, Christianity Not Mysterious
• 1696: John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
• 1696: Mary Pix, The Spanish Wives
• 1696: Maurice de Saxe, Marshall General of France 1750
• 1696: The Navigation Act of 1696 requires that all trade in England's North American colonies be conducted in English-built ships, and expands the powers of the colonial customs commissioners
• 1696: The Royal Africa Company loses its monopoly on the slave trade; American colonists begin to engage in slave trading for profit
• 1696: Workhouses are established by an Act of Parliament
• 1697: April: John Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife
• 1697: Birth of Hasse, composer
• 1697: Birth of Quantz, composer
• 1697: Birth of William Hogarth
• 1697: Charles Perrault's fairytales, Contes de ma mère l'Oye
• 1697: Daniel Defoe, Essay upon Projects
• 1697: English painter, William Hogarth 1764
• 1697: Fishcer von Ehrlach completes Vienna's Palace of Prince Eugene
• 1697: Italian painter, Antonio Canale (Canaletto) 1768
• 1697: Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
• 1697: Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress
• 1698: Build by Inigo Jones in 1622, London's Whitehall burns down
• 1698: First steam engine patented by Thomas Savery
• 1698: Hardouin Mansart lays out the statue of Louis XIV in the middle ofthe Place Vendome
• 1698: Isaac Watts preaches his first sermon at Mark Lane Chapel in London
• 1698: Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality of the Stage
• 1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
• 1698: Tsar Peter the Great begins his European travels
• 1698: Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins his European travels
• 1699: Anne Oldfield debuts at Drury Lane
• 1699: Birth of Charles Macklin, actor, manager, playwright (probable date)
• 1699: François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, Téléaque
• 1699: French painter, Jean Chardin 1779
• 1699: Joseph Addison begins his tour of the Continent
• 1699: Rev. Thomas Bray founds the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K.)
• 1699: The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and Turkey
• 1699: Thomas Traherne, A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God (Thanksgivings) published anonymously by George Hickes
• 1699: Treaty of Karlowitz ends Autro Turkish War
• 1700: Anne Oldfield's first major role, Alinda, in The Pilgrim
• 1700: Attacks on Somers and Burnet
• 1700: Birth of Dyer
• 1700: Birth of James Thomson
• 1700: Burnaby, The Reform'd Wife
• 1700: Charles Johnson, The Gentleman-Cully
• 1700: Colley Cibber's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III
• 1700: Colley Cibber, Love Makes a Man
• 1700: Copenhagen comes under bombardment
• 1700: Daniel Defoe, An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity
• 1700: Death of John Dryden
• 1700: Death of the Duke of Gloucester
• 1700: English poet, James Thomson 1748
• 1700: Fénelon, Dialogue des morts
• 1700: Farquhar, The Inconstant Couple
• 1700: Harrington, Collected Works
• 1700: Italian architect living in Russia, Barolomeo Rastrelli 1771
• 1700: J. P. de Tournefort of France discovers ammonium chloride
• 1700: John Blackmore, Satire Against Wit
• 1700: John Dennis, Iphigenia
• 1700: John Dryden, Fables and The Secular Masque
• 1700: John Vanbrugh, The Pilgrim
• 1700: Last Statute against Papists
• 1700: Leibniz is elected president of the new Berlin Academy of Science
• 1700: Marquess of Halifax, Advice to a Daughter and The Character of a Trimmer
• 1700: Marquess of Halifax, Works
• 1700: Massachusetts and New York require all Catholics to leave the colonies
• 1700: Matthew Pryor, Carmen Saeculare
• 1700: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, translated into English by Motteux, vol. 1
• 1700: Nahum Tate, Panacea: A Poem on Tea
• 1700: Natives first admitted to the religious orders in the Philippines
• 1700: Ned Ward, The London Spy, in twelve parts
• 1700: Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect, becomes assistant to John Vanbrugh
• 1700: Nicholas Rowe, The Ambitious Stepmother
• 1700: Pomfret, The Choice, Reason
• 1700: Prior, Carmen Seculare
• 1700: Sir William Temple, Letters, edited by Jonathan Swift
• 1700: Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Fama y obras póstumas (posthumous third volume of her works)
• 1700: Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur'd Husband
• 1700: Swiss mathematician and scientist in Russia, Daniel Bernoulli 1782
• 1700: The Act of Resumption
• 1700: The Great Northern War (through 1721)
• 1700: The Partition Treaty
• 1700: The dispute over Irish Forfeitures
• 1700: Thomas Southerne, The Fate of Capua
• 1700: William Congreve, The Way of the World
• 1700: Work begins on building the first lighthouse at Eddystone, England
• 1700: Work begins on building the first lighthouse at Eddystone, England
• 1701: Benjamin Motteux, Acis and Galatea
• 1701: Burnaby, Ladies' Visiting Day
• 1701: Charles Gildon, New Miscellany of Poems (includes Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea's The Spleen) and Examen Miscellaneum
• 1701: Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman; Original Power; Legion's Memorial; Kentish Petition
• 1701: Davenant, Essay on the Balance of Power
• 1701: Death of James II
• 1701: Death of Sedley
• 1701: Elector of Brandenburg becomes King in Prussia
• 1701: England's Act of Settlement
• 1701: France invades the Low Countries
• 1701: France's Louis XIV recognizes the Pretender
• 1701: George Farquhar, Sir Harry Wild-Air
• 1701: Gilson, Love's Victim
• 1701: Granville, Lord Lansdowne, The Jew of Venice
• 1701: Jethro Tull of England invents the seeding drill
• 1701: John Dennis, The Advancement of Modern Poetry
• 1701: John Dryden, Collected Plays (posthumous)
• 1701: John Dryden, Collected Poems (posthumous)
• 1701: John Philips, The Splendid Shilling
• 1701: Jonathan Swift, Contests in Athens and Rome
• 1701: Joseph Addison writes Letter to Halifax (published 1703)
• 1701: Nicholas Rowe, Tamerlane
• 1701: Norris, Ideal and Intelligible World, vol. 1 (volume 2 followed in 1704)
• 1701: Richard Steele, The Christian Hero
• 1701: Richard Steele, The Funeral
• 1701: Settle, The Virgin Prophetess
• 1701: Sir William Temple, Miscellanies, ed. Jonathan Swift, vol. 3 (other volumes in 1680 and 1692)
• 1701: Somers is impeached
• 1701: Swedish astronomer, Anders Celsius 1744
• 1701: The Act of Settlement
• 1701: The Elector of Brandenburg becomes King in Prussia
• 1701: The Kentish Petition
• 1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel is founded
• 1701: The Tories receive big victories in the general election, but the Whigs recover in the next
• 1701: The Truck Act
• 1701: The University of Venice is founded
• 1701: Thomas D'Urfey, The Bath
• 1701: War of Spanish Succession (through 1715)
• 1701: Whichcote, Several Discourses (posthumous)
• 1701: William Congreve, The Judgment of Paris
• 1702: 26 June: Birth of Philip Doddridge
• 1702: 8 March: Anne accedes to the throne after William III's death, leading to a Tory administration
• 1702: Poems on Affairs of State (1702-1707)
• 1702: The Daily Courant begins (published through 1735)
• 1702: The Observator begins (published through 1712)
• 1702: A provisional union of the East India Company is formed (the union is confirmed in 1708)
• 1702: Anglicanism is adopted as the official religion of Maryland
• 1702: Birth of Louis-François Roubiliac, sculptor (estimated date)
• 1702: Burnaby, The Modish Husband
• 1702: Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry
• 1702: Charles Gildon, Comparison between the Two Stages
• 1702: Clarendon, History of the Great Rebellion (posthumous; through 1704)
• 1702: Colley Cibber, She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not
• 1702: Colley Cibber, The Schoolboy
• 1702: Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana
• 1702: Daniel Defoe, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, a pamphlet which leads to his arrest
• 1702: Death of John Pomfret
• 1702: Death of William III
• 1702: Echard, General Ecclesiastical History
• 1702: Edward Busshe, The Art of English Poetry
• 1702: England declares war on France in the Grand Alliance
• 1702: Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel) appointed organist at Halle Domkirche
• 1702: George Farquhar, The Inconstant and The Twin Rivals
• 1702: Godolphin is appointed Lord Treasurer
• 1702: J.B.Fischer von Erlach completes Salzburg's Church of the Holy Trinity
• 1702: John Dennis, A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry
• 1702: John Pomfret, Collected Poems
• 1702: John Vanbrugh, The False Friend
• 1702: Marlborough is named Captain-General; Lady Marlborough is named Mistress of the Robes
• 1702: Queen Anne's War in New England (through 1713)
• 1702: Shaftesbury, Paradoxes of State
• 1702: Susanna Centlivre, The Beaux' Duel
• 1702: Susanna Centlivre, The Stolen Heiress
• 1702: T. Brown, Letters from the Dead
• 1702: The War of Spanish Succession begins
• 1702: William King, De Origine Mali
• 1702: William Penn, Primitive Christianity Revived
• 1703: 27 November: The Great Storm
• 1703: Birth of Gilbert West
• 1703: Birth of Henry Brooke
• 1703: Birth of John Wesley
• 1703: Birth of Jonathan Edwards
• 1703: Birth of Robert Dodsley
• 1703: Boyer, History of the Reign of Queen Anne (finished 1720)
• 1703: Burnaby, Love Betrayed
• 1703: Charles Gildon, The Patriot
• 1703: Daniel Defoe is imprisoned, pilloried, and released; writes Hymn to the Pillory
• 1703: Daniel Defoe, Peace without Union
• 1703: Death of Samuel Pepys
• 1703: Death of St. Evremond
• 1703: England and Portugal sign Methuen Treaty
• 1703: England and Portugal sign the Methuen Treaty
• 1703: England begins its campain in Flanders
• 1703: French painter, François Boucher
• 1703: Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel) appointed violinist and harpsichordist to the Hamburg opera
• 1703: Hearne, Reliquiae Bodleianae
• 1703: Hickes, Thesaurus
• 1703: John Vanbrugh designs the Queen's Theater, Haymarket
• 1703: John Vanbrugh, The Country House
• 1703: Joseph Addison ends his tour of the Continent and returns to England
• 1703: Joseph Addison, Letter to Halifax
• 1703: Ned Ward, The London Spy, in eighteen parts
• 1703: Nicholas Rowe, Fair Penitent
• 1703: Richard Steele, Lying Lover
• 1703: Sarah Fyge Egerton, The Emulation and The Philaster
• 1703: Savoy joins the Allies
• 1703: Scottish general elections
• 1703: St. Petersburg established
• 1703: Susanna Centlivre, Love's Contrivance
• 1703: The first Occasional Conformity Bill is defeated in the House of Lords
• 1703: Tsar Peter the Great of Russia founds St Petersburg
• 1703: Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms (posthumous)
• 1703: White Kennett, The Complete History of England
• 1703: William Temple, Letters, ed. Jonathan Swift, vol. 3
• 1704: The Boston News-Letter, America's first newspaper, begins publication on 24 April
• 1704: Burnet, Tracts and Discourses
• 1704: Colley Cibber, The Careless Husband
• 1704: Daniel Defoe begins The Review (through 1712)
• 1704: Daniel Defoe, Hymn to Victory
• 1704: Death of Charpentier, composer
• 1704: Death of John Locke
• 1704: Death of Roger L'Estrange
• 1704: Death of Thomas Brown
• 1704: England captures Gibraltar
• 1704: English engineer, John Kay 1764
• 1704: Fletcher, Right Regulation of Governments
• 1704: George Farquhar, The Stage Coach
• 1704: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), St. John Passion
• 1704: George Psalmanazar, Description of Formosa
• 1704: Gibraltar taken by Enlish
• 1704: Harley appointed Secretary of State
• 1704: John Dennis' The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
• 1704: John Dennis, Liberty Asserted
• 1704: John Dennis, The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
• 1704: Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books
• 1704: Nicholas Rowe, The Biter
• 1704: Queen Anne's Bounty
• 1704: Scotland's Act of Security
• 1704: Sir Isaac Newton, Optics first translated into English
• 1704: The Battle of Blenheim
• 1704: The Nottingham faction resigns
• 1704: The Press Gang is authorized by law
• 1704: Thomas Brown, Dialogues
• 1704: Thomas Rymer and Sanderson, Foedera (through 1735)
• 1704: Tonson publishes Poetical Miscellanies (including works of John Dryden)
• 1704: Trapp, Abra-Mule
• 1704: Willam Wycherley, Miscellany Poems
• 1704: William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Walsh, Squire Trelooby
• 1704: Wycherley, Miscellany Poems
• 1705: A New York law assigns the death penalty to runaway slaves caught more than forty miles north of Albany
• 1705: Barcelona is captured by English navy
• 1705: Bernard Mandeville, The Grumbling Hive
• 1705: Birth of Abraham Tucker
• 1705: Birth of David Hartley, philosopher
• 1705: Birth of David Mallet (estimated date)
• 1705: Birth of John Wood the Elder, architect
• 1705: Birth of Stephen Duck, poet
• 1705: Blenheim Palace, designed by John Vanbrugh, begun
• 1705: Clarke, Beings and Attributes of God
• 1705: Clayton, Arsinoë
• 1705: Construction of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire begins
• 1705: Coppinger, Session of the Poets
• 1705: Daniel Defoe, The Consolidator
• 1705: Dunton, Life and Errors
• 1705: Edmund Halley correctly predicts the return of the comet that bears his name in 1758
• 1705: England captures Barcelona
• 1705: Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel), Almira
• 1705: H. Norris, The Royal Merchant
• 1705: Halley predicts the comet will return in 1758
• 1705: Haymarket Opera House, designed by John Vanbrugh, opens
• 1705: Italian castrato singer, Carlo Borschi (Farinelli) 1782
• 1705: John Michelburne, Ireland Preserved; or, The Siege of Londonderry
• 1705: John Philips, Blenhiem and a corrected edition of The Splendid Shilling
• 1705: John Vanbrugh, The Confederacy
• 1705: Joseph Addison is appointed Commissioner of Appeals
• 1705: Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy
• 1705: Joseph Addison, The Campaign, celebrates Marlborough's victory at Blenheim
• 1705: Marlborough pierces the lines at Brabant
• 1705: Mary Davys, The Fugitive
• 1705: Massachusetts outlaws mixed-race marriages
• 1705: Ned Ward, Hudibras Redivivus
• 1705: Nicholas Rowe, Ulysses
• 1705: Queen Anne knights Isaac Newton
• 1705: Richard Blackmore, Eliza
• 1705: Richard Steele, The Tender Husband
• 1705: Scotland proposes a treaty with England
• 1705: Susanna Centlivre, The Gamester, Love at a Venture, and The Bassett Table
• 1705: The "Whig Junto"
• 1705: The Royal Observatory is founded in Berlin
• 1705: The Virginia Black Code declares that slaves have the status of real estate
• 1705: The Whigs score big victories in the elections
• 1705: Toland, Socinianism Truly Stated
• 1705: William Law enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• 1706: Birth of Benjamin Franklin
• 1706: Birth of Galuppi, composer
• 1706: Birth of John Baskerville, painter and typefounder
• 1706: Daniel Defoe, The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
• 1706: Death of John Evelyn
• 1706: Death of Pachelbel, composer
• 1706: England and Scotland define the terms for the Union (ratified in 1707)
• 1706: English optician, John Dollond 1761
• 1706: George Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer, at Drury Lane
• 1706: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) travels to Italy
• 1706: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) writes Florindo and Daphne (first performed in 1708)
• 1706: Granville, The British Enchanters
• 1706: Hughes, History of England
• 1706: Isaac Watts, Horae Lyricae
• 1706: John Dennis, Operas after the Italian Manner
• 1706: John Locke, The Conduct of Understanding, On Miracles, The Fourth Letter on Toleration
• 1706: John Philips, Cerealia
• 1706: Joseph Addison, Rosamond
• 1706: Kennett, The Complete Hisotry of England (through 1719)
• 1706: Manley, Almyna
• 1706: Richard Steele appointed Gazetteer
• 1706: Samuel Richardson is apprenticed to a London printer
• 1706: South Carolina adopts Anglicanism as its official religion
• 1706: Sunderland becomes Secretary of State
• 1706: Susanna Centlivre, The Platonick Lady
• 1706: The Battle of Ramillies
• 1706: Thomas D'Urfey, Wonders in the Sun
• 1706: Watson, A Choice Collection of Scottish Poems
• 1706: Watts, Horae Lyricae
• 1707: 1 January: the Union with Scotland is ratified
• 1707: The Muses' Mercury (through 1708)
• 1707: Alain René Lesage, The Devil upon Two Sticks
• 1707: Anna Bracegirdle retires
• 1707: Birth of Carolus Linnaeus
• 1707: Birth of Charles Wesley
• 1707: Birth of Comte de Buffon
• 1707: Birth of Henry Fielding
• 1707: Birth of Lady Selina, Countess of Huntingdon
• 1707: Colley Cibber, The Comical Lovers, The Double Gallant, The Lady's Last Stake
• 1707: Daniel Defoe, Modest Vindication of the Present Ministry
• 1707: Death of Buxtehude, composer
• 1707: Death of George Farquhar, Irish dramatist
• 1707: Echard, History of England, vol. 1
• 1707: Edward Lhuyd, Archaeologia Britannica
• 1707: George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratgem, at Haymarket
• 1707: Granville, The Jew of Venice
• 1707: Italian dramatist, Carlo Goldini 1793
• 1707: John Dennis, Orpheus and Eurydice
• 1707: John Philips, Ode to Bolingbroke
• 1707: March: Last meeting of the Scottish Parliament
• 1707: Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions (pirated edition)
• 1707: Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
• 1707: Sedley, Poetical Works and Speeches
• 1707: Settle, Siege of Troy
• 1707: Sir Isaac Newton, Arithemetica Universalis
• 1707: Sir John Floyer introduces pulse rate as a diagnostic measure
• 1707: Swedish scientist, Carl von Linneaus
• 1707: Swiss mathematician, Leonhard Euler 1783
• 1707: Thomas Brown, Works
• 1707: Thomas Tickell, Oxford
• 1707: Union between Scotland and England under the name of "Great Britain"
• 1707: Watts, Hymns
• 1708: Battle of Oudenarde
• 1708: Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae
• 1708: Birth of Francis Hayman, painter
• 1708: British East India Co. and New East India companies merged
• 1708: Collier, Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, vol. 1
• 1708: Downes, Roscius Anglicanus
• 1708: Fontenelle, Dialogues of the Dead, tr. Hughes
• 1708: Francis I, Austrian Emperor, Duke of Lorraine & Tuscanny 1765
• 1708: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
• 1708: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
• 1708: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), La resurrezione
• 1708: Harley and St. John resign
• 1708: Italian painter, Pompeo Batoni 1787
• 1708: John Locke, Letters (posthumous)
• 1708: John Oldmixon, The British Empire in America
• 1708: John Philips, Cyder
• 1708: Jonathan Swift, Elegy upon Partridge; Predictions for 1708; An Account of Partridge's Death; Sentiments of a Church of England Man; Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
• 1708: Joseph Addison becomes an MP and Keeper of Records, Dublin
• 1708: Lewis Theobald, The Persian Princess
• 1708: Rabelais, Works, tr. Urquhart and Benjamin Motteux
• 1708: Shaftesbury, A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm
• 1708: Sir James Thornhill begins the Painted Hall at Greenwich (completed in 1727)
• 1708: Swiss physiologist, Albrecht von Haller 1777
• 1708: The British East India Company and the New East India Companies merge
• 1708: The Naturalization Act
• 1708: While in China, Jesuits make an accurate map of the country
• 1708: William King, The Art of Cookery
• 1708: William Law receives his B.A. from Cambridge
• 1708: William Pitt the Elder, English statesman 1778
• 1709: 12 April: Richard Steele begins The Tatler, with contributions from Joseph Addison
• 1709: Poetical Miscellanies, edited by Jacob Tonson (including Pope's Pastorals)
• 1709: Alexander Pope, Pastorals
• 1709: Birth of Charles Avison, composer
• 1709: Birth of George Lyttelton
• 1709: Birth of John Armstrong
• 1709: Charles XII of Sweden is defeated at Pultowa
• 1709: Daniel Defoe, History of the Union of Great Britain
• 1709: Death of John Philips
• 1709: Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis
• 1709: Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 1762
• 1709: English writer, Samuel Johnson 1784
• 1709: Francis Hawksbee makes the first accurate observations of capillary action in glass tubes
• 1709: Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel), Agrippina
• 1709: George Berkeley, New Theory of Vision
• 1709: Giambattista Vico, De Nostri Temporis Studiorum Ratione
• 1709: John Dennis, Appius and Virginia
• 1709: Jonathan Swift, Baucis and Philemon, Project for the Advancement of Religion
• 1709: Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions
• 1709: Nicholas Rowe edits the works of Shakespeare (through 1710)
• 1709: Peace negotiations at the Hague
• 1709: Peace negotiations between England and France are in full swing
• 1709: September: Birth of Samuel Johnson
• 1709: Shaftesbury, Moralists
• 1709: Sir William Temple, Memoirs, edited by Jonathan Swift, vol. 3 (posthumous)
• 1709: Strype, Annals of the Reformation (through 1731)
• 1709: Susanna Centlivre, The Busybody
• 1709: The Battle of Malplaquet
• 1709: The first Copyright Act grants owners fourteen years' protection, renewable for another fourteen if the author is still alive
• 1709: William Kent, painter, architect, and designer, travels to Italy
• 1709: William King, The Art of Love
• 1709: The Barrier Treaty
• 1710: Baldassare Longhena's baroque Palazzo Ca'Pesaro in Venice is completed after his death
• 1710: Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
• 1710: Birth of Boyce, composer
• 1710: Birth of Pergolesi, composer
• 1710: Birth of Thomas Arne, composer
• 1710: Birth of Thomas Reid
• 1710: Birth of W. F. Bach, composer
• 1710: Burnet, Exposition of Church Catechism
• 1710: Death of Olaus Romer, Danish astronomer
• 1710: Delarivier Manley, Memoirs of Europe (later integrated into The New Atalantis as volumes 3 and 4)
• 1710: Drury Lane Theater managed by Colley Cibber, Thomas Doggett, and Robert Wilks
• 1710: Elizabeth Barry retires
• 1710: French ballet dancer, Marie de Camargo 1770
• 1710: Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel) appointed Kapellmeister to Elector George of Hanover, later George I of England
• 1710: George Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge
• 1710: Gildon, Life of Betterton; Remarks on Shakespeare
• 1710: Godolphin is dismissed from his post as Lord Treasurer
• 1710: Harley (Oxford) becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1710: Hill, Elfrid (rewritten as Athelwold in 1732); The Walking Statue
• 1710: Italian composer, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1736
• 1710: Jonathan Swift begins The Examiner (through 1711)
• 1710: Jonathan Swift, Tale of a Tub, 5th ed. (the first with the parodic footnotes); Description of a City Shower; Meditations upon a Broomstick
• 1710: Joseph Addison's literary magazine The Whig Examiner
• 1710: Joseph Addison, The Whig Examiner
• 1710: King, Historical Account of Heathen Gods and Heroes
• 1710: Leland, Itinerary, ed. Hearne (through 1712)
• 1710: LouisXV, King of France 1774
• 1710: Nicholas Rowe edits the plays of Shakespeare (Begun 1709)
• 1710: Pierre Bayle, Dictionary, first translated into English
• 1710: Russia passes its first budget
• 1710: Russia's first budget
• 1710: Sacheverell's impeachment trial
• 1710: St. John (Bolinbroke) is appointed Secretary of State
• 1710: Stillingfleet, Works, ed. Bentley
• 1710: Strype, The Life of Grindall
• 1710: Susanna Centlivre, The Man's Bewitched
• 1710: The Post Office Act begins an American postal service under the control of the postmaster general in London
• 1710: The Whigs lose their majority in Commons
• 1710: Thomas Shadwell, The Fair Quaker of Deal
• 1710: William Congreve, Collected Works (3 vols.)
• 1711: 1 March: Joseph Addison and Richard Steele publish The Spectator (through 6 December 1712)
• 1711: Addison and Richard Steele's magazine The Spectator Magazine
• 1711: Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
• 1711: Atterbury, Representations of the State of Religion
• 1711: Birth of David Hume
• 1711: Birth of Mondonville, composer
• 1711: Birth of William Boyce, composer
• 1711: Blackmore, The Nature of Man
• 1711: Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain (through 1729)
• 1711: Colley Cibber, Hob; or, the Country Wake
• 1711: Death of Bishop Ken
• 1711: Death of Boileau
• 1711: Death of Emperor ???
• 1711: Death of John Norris
• 1711: Drummond of Hawthornden, Collected Works (posthumous)
• 1711: English actress, Kitty Clive 1785
• 1711: George Frederick Händel's (Handel's) first English production, Rinaldo, with libretto by Aaron Hill, at the King's Theater
• 1711: Harley (Oxford) is named Lord Treasurer
• 1711: January: Richard Steele ends publication of The Tatler
• 1711: John Dennis, On the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare, Essay upon Public Spirit
• 1711: John Shore invents the tuning fork
• 1711: Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
• 1711: Jonathan Swift, The Conduct of the Allies
• 1711: Marlborough is dismissed
• 1711: Matthew Prior travels to France
• 1711: Russian chemist, Mikhail Lomonosov 1765
• 1711: Shaftesbury, Characteristics
• 1711: Sir James Thornhill visits the Netherlands
• 1711: Strype, The Life of Parker
• 1711: Susanna Centlivre, Marplot
• 1711: The church-building commission meets after the Fifty New Churches Act; only twelve are built. There were two Commissioners, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Thomas Archer.
• 1711: Waller, Collected Works (posthumous)
• 1711: Whiston, Primitive Christianity Revived (through 1712)
• 1712: Ambrose Philips, The Distressed Mother
• 1712: Arbuthnot, Art of Political Lying; The History of John Bull
• 1712: Birth of John Christopher Smith, German engraver
• 1712: Birth of John Stanley, composer
• 1712: Browne, Posthumous Works
• 1712: Button's Coffee House opens
• 1712: Carolina is divided into North and South Carolina
• 1712: Charles Johnson, The Wife's Relief
• 1712: Death of Zachau, composer
• 1712: Fischer von Erlach completes Vienna's Trautson Palace
• 1712: French writer, Denis Diderot 1784
• 1712: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Il pastor fido
• 1712: Hughes, Calypso and Telemachus
• 1712: Italian painter, Francesco Guardi 1793
• 1712: John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull (3 pamphlets)
• 1712: John Gay, Mohocks
• 1712: John Lewis (trans. Revd John Richardson), The Church Catechism (Caitecism na Heaglaise)
• 1712: John Richardson, A Proposal for the Conversion of the Popish Natives of Ireland
• 1712: John Richardson, A Short History of the Attempts that Have Been Made to Convert the Popish Natives of Ireland, to the Established Religion: With a Proposal for their Conversion
• 1712: Jonathan Swift, Advice to Members of the October Club, The Barrier Treaty, Proposal for Correcting and Ascertaining the English Tongue
• 1712: June: Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1712: Peace congress opens at Utrecht
• 1712: Peace negotiations begin at Utrecht, culminating in a treaty the next year
• 1712: Pennsylvania bans the importation of slaves
• 1712: Samuel Johnson is touched by Queen Anne to be cured of scrofula
• 1712: Sir William Wyndham is appointed Secretary at War
• 1712: William Law receives his M.A. from Cambridge, is ordained, and is elected fellow of Emmanuel College
• 1713: 12 March: Richard Steele begins The Guardian
• 1713: Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, Ode for Music
• 1713: Anne Finch, The Petition For an Absolute Retreat
• 1713: Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea, Miscellany Poems
• 1713: Asiento Treaty
• 1713: Asiento Treaty
• 1713: Bentley, Remarks upon a Discourse of Free-thinking
• 1713: Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
• 1713: Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter
• 1713: Birth of James "Athenian" Stuart, architect
• 1713: Birth of Laurence Sterne
• 1713: Birth of Richard Wilson, painter
• 1713: Birth of Stanley, composer
• 1713: Carey, Poems on Several Occasions
• 1713: Colley Cibber, Ximena
• 1713: Daniel Defoe ends The Review
• 1713: Daniel Defoe, Reasons against the Accession of the House of Hanover; What If the Pretender Should Come?
• 1713: Death of Bishop Sprat
• 1713: Death of Corelli, composer
• 1713: Death of Thomas Rymer
• 1713: Death of the Third Earl of Shaftesbury
• 1713: Diaper, Dryades
• 1713: English novelist, Laurence Sterne 1768
• 1713: Fischer von Erlach designs Prague's Clam Gallas Palace
• 1713: George Berkeley, Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous
• 1713: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) awarded a pension by Queen Anne
• 1713: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Birthday Ode for Queen Anne
• 1713: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Teseo
• 1713: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate
• 1713: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, giving the right of succession to his daughter, Maria Theresa
• 1713: Isaac Watts is forced out of the ministry
• 1713: John Dennis, Remarks upon Cato
• 1713: John Gay, Rural Sports
• 1713: John Gay, The Wife of Bath
• 1713: Jonathan Swift becomes Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
• 1713: Jonathan Swift, The Importance of the Guardian Considered
• 1713: Joseph Addison, Cato
• 1713: Richard Steele becomes an MP in Great Britain
• 1713: Swift, Pope, Congreve and others form London's Scriblerus Club
• 1713: The Board of Longitude is established in England to promote the discovery of a means of determining the longitude of ships at sea
• 1713: Thomas Shadwell, The Humours of the Army
• 1713: William Hogarth is apprenticed to an engraver
• 1713: William Law is suspended for his Dissenting views
• 1714: 1 August: Death of Anne, accession of George I. Whigs control Parliament
• 1714: Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock in five cantos
• 1714: Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath
• 1714: Birth of C. P. E. Bach, composer
• 1714: Birth of George Whitefield
• 1714: Birth of Gluck, composer
• 1714: Birth of James Hervey
• 1714: Birth of Marc de Montalembert, French military engineer
• 1714: Birth of William Shenstone
• 1714: Death of Queen Anne of England
• 1714: Dominique Anel invents the first fine-point syringe
• 1714: Edward Young, The Force of Religion
• 1714: February: Richard Steele's The Guardian ends publication
• 1714: France and the Holy Roman Empire sign the Peace of Rastatt
• 1714: Gabriel Fahrenheit of Germany invents a mercury thermometer with a temperature scale
• 1714: German composer, Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach 1788
• 1714: German composer, Christoph Willibald Gluck 1787
• 1714: John Gay's satirical pastoral poem The Shepard's Week
• 1714: John Gay, The Shepherd's Week, The Fan
• 1714: John Locke, Works (posthumous)
• 1714: John Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
• 1714: Jonathan Swift, The Public Spirit of the Whigs
• 1714: Lewis Theobald, Electra
• 1714: Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore
• 1714: Pulteney becomes Secretary at War
• 1714: Richard Steele expelled from British Parliament
• 1714: Richard Steele, The Ladies' Library, The Crisis
• 1714: Sir James Thornhill begins the painting of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (finished 1719)
• 1714: Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder!, A Woman Keeps a Secret
• 1714: Tea is first introduced into the American colonies
• 1714: The Schism Act
• 1714: Townshend and Stanhope are Secretaries of State
• 1714: Walpole is made Paymaster General
• 1715: Alexander Pope, The First Book of Homer's Iliad, The Temple of Fame
• 1715: Bullock, The Woman's Revenge
• 1715: Carey, Contrivances
• 1715: Charles Johnson, The Country Lasses
• 1715: Colley Cibber, Venus and Adonis
• 1715: Cotton, Collected Works (posthumous)
• 1715: Daniel Defoe, Appeal to Honour and Justice, The Family Instructor, vol. 1
• 1715: Death of Andreas German sculptor and architect, Andreas Schlütter
• 1715: Death of Gilbert Burnet
• 1715: Death of Louis XIV of France
• 1715: Death of Nahum Tate
• 1715: Derham, Astro-Theology
• 1715: Garth, Claremont
• 1715: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Amadigi
• 1715: German poet, Christian F&7uml;rchtegott Gellert 1769
• 1715: Harley (Oxford) and St. John (Bolinbroke) are impeached of high treason. Bolinbroke flees to France
• 1715: Isaac Watts, Hymns for Children and Divine Songs
• 1715: John Gay, The What d'ye Call It
• 1715: John Gay, Trivia
• 1715: John Letherbridge invents the first waterproof diving suit
• 1715: Jonathan Edwards enters Yale University
• 1715: Joseph Addison begins The Freeholder
• 1715: Lesage, Gil Blas (through 1735)
• 1715: Matthew Prior imprisoned in the Tower
• 1715: Nicholas Rowe appointed Poet Laureate
• 1715: Nicholas Rowe, Lady Jane Grey
• 1715: Richard Steele knighted on the Hanoverian accession
• 1715: The 'Fifteen: Jacobite rebellion on behalf of the Pretender begins in Scotland
• 1715: The Riot Act
• 1715: Thomas Tickell, The First Book of Homer's Iliad
• 1715: Watts, Divine Songs for Children
• 1716: Aaron Hill, The Fatal Vision
• 1716: Alexander Pope, Epistle to Jervas, Harsh and Barbarous Revenge on Curll
• 1716: Alexander Pope, John Gay, and others, Court Poems
• 1716: Birth of Frances Chamberlain Sheridan, playwright
• 1716: Birth of Lancelot "Capability" Brown, landscape architect
• 1716: Birth of Thomas Gray
• 1716: Blackmore, Poems on Various Subjects, Essays
• 1716: Browne, Christian Morals (posthumous)
• 1716: Charles III, King of Two Sicilies, then of Spain 1788
• 1716: Death of Leibniz
• 1716: Death of South
• 1716: Death of Wycherley
• 1716: England forms a treaty with Denmark against Sweden
• 1716: English writer, Thomas Gray 1771
• 1716: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Brockes Passion
• 1716: Hill, Gideon
• 1716: James Farewell, Hesperi-Neso-Graphia
• 1716: John Oldmixon, A Critical History of England
• 1716: Joseph Addison, The Drummer
• 1716: June: Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, ends publication
• 1716: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Town Eclogues
• 1716: Mary Davys, The Northern Heiress
• 1716: Matias Pereira de Silva's anthology of poetry, Fénix Renascida
• 1716: Scottish physician in the navy, James Lind 1794
• 1716: Shaftesbury, Letters to a Student at the University
• 1716: Sir James Thornhill paints the ceiling of the Hall at Blenheim
• 1716: The Septennial Act requires general elections every seven years, not every three
• 1716: Townshend loses seals
• 1716: Work begins on the Karlskirche in Vienna designed by Fischer von Erlach; who will die before it's completion
• 1717: Alexander Pope, Collected Works, including Memory of an Unfortunate Lady and Eloisa to Abelard
• 1717: Ashmole, Memoirs
• 1717: Benjamin Hoadly, The Nature of Christ's Kingdom
• 1717: Birth of David Garrick, actor, theatre manager, and playwright
• 1717: Birth of Horace Walpole
• 1717: Birth of J. Stamitz, composer
• 1717: Colley Cibber, The Non-Juror
• 1717: Death of Abraham Darby, English ironworker
• 1717: Delarivier Manley, Lucius
• 1717: England, France, and Holland form the Triple Alliance
• 1717: Joseph Addison named Secretary of State for the Southern Department in Britain
• 1717: English actor, David Garrick 1779
• 1717: French mathematician, Jean Baptiste d'Alembert 1783
• 1717: Garth, Dryden, et al., Ovid's Metamorphoses
• 1717: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) composes the Chandos Anthems (through 1718) for the Duke of Chandos
• 1717: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Water Music
• 1717: John Dennis, Remarks upon Pope's Homer
• 1717: John Dryden, Works, ed. Congreve (posthumous)
• 1717: John Fenton, Poems on Several Occasions
• 1717: John Gay, Fables (first series)
• 1717: John Gay, Alexander Pope, et al., Three Hours After Marriage
• 1717: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduces the practice of smallpox inoculation into England
• 1717: Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria 1780
• 1717: Matthew Prior released from the Tower
• 1717: Parnell, Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice
• 1717: Purney, Pastorals
• 1717: Roscommon, Poetical Works
• 1717: Samuel Johnson enters Lichfield Grammar School
• 1717: Stanhope becomes Lord Treasurer
• 1717: Sunderland, then Joseph Addison, becomes Secretary of State
• 1717: The Bangorian Controversy (through 1720)
• 1717: The impeachment trial of Harley (Oxford) is unsuccessful
• 1717: Thomas Tickell, Epistle from a Lady in England
• 1717: Thomas Traherne, Meditations on the Six Days of Creation (posthumous)
• 1717: Townshend is dismissed
• 1717: William Law, Letters to the Bishop of Bangor, vols. 1 and 2
• 1718: Alexander Pope moves to Twickenham
• 1718: Allan Ramsay, Christ's Kirk on the Green
• 1718: Birth of Thomas Chippendale, cabinetmaker
• 1718: Byng defeats the Spanish fleet at Cape Passaro
• 1718: Charles Gildon, The Complete Art of Poetry
• 1718: Daniel Defoe, The Family Instructor, vol. 2
• 1718: Death of Benjamin Motteux
• 1718: Death of Charles XII
• 1718: Death of Cumberland
• 1718: Death of Nicholas Rowe
• 1718: Death of Parnell
• 1718: Death of William Penn
• 1718: England and France declare war on Spain
• 1718: England, France, Holland, and the Emperor form the Quadruple Alliance (through 1720)
• 1718: English inventor, John Roebuck 1794
• 1718: Eusden named Poet Laureate on Rowe's death
• 1718: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Acis and Galatea
• 1718: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Esther
• 1718: Joseph Addison resigns
• 1718: Lewis Theobald, Pan and Syrinx
• 1718: Matthew Prior, Poems, including Alma and Solomon
• 1718: Nicholas Rowe, Lucan (translation into English)
• 1718: Richard Steele and Joseph Addison are estranged
• 1718: Susanna Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife
• 1718: The French found New Orleans
• 1718: The Society of Antiquaries is founded
• 1718: Voltaire, Oedipe
• 1719: Allan Ramsay, Scots' Songs
• 1719: An abortive Jacobite invasion is stopped early
• 1719: Baron Ludvig Holberg's comic poem, Pedar Paars

• 1719: Birth of Leopold Mozart, composer
• 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• 1719: Death of Garth, English poet
• 1719: Death of Joseph Addison, English writer
• 1719: Edward Young, Busiris
• 1719: England and France defeat Spain
• 1719: Jacob, The Poetical Register, vol. 1
• 1719: John Wesley enters Christ Church, Oxford
• 1719: Joseph Addison, The Old Whig
• 1719: La Motte, Fables
• 1719: Richard Steele, The Plebeian
• 1719: Royal Academy of Music founded, with George Frederick Händel (or Handel) as its head
• 1719: The Peerage Bill
• 1719: The Schism Act of 1714 is repealed
• 1719: Thomas D'Urfey, Wit and Mirth, or, Pills to Purge Melancholy (collected edition)
• 1719: Thomas Southerne, The Spartan Dame
• 1719: Thomas Tickell, Elegy on Addison
• 1719: William Kent, painter, architect, and designer, returns to London from Italy
• 1719: William Law, Letter III to the Bishop of Bangor
• 1719: Young, Letter to Tickell
• 1720: Hammond's Miscellany, including works by Alexander Pope
• 1720: Aaron Hill, The Creation
• 1720: Alexander Pope, Iliad, vol. 6 (of 6)
• 1720: Allan Ramsay, Poems
• 1720: Bernard Mandeville, Free Thoughts on Religion
• 1720: Birth of Charlotte Lennox
• 1720: Birth of Elizabeth Montagu
• 1720: Birth of Gilbert White
• 1720: Birth of Richard Hurd
• 1720: Birth of Samuel Foote
• 1720: Daniel Defoe, Duncan Campbell, Captain Singleton
• 1720: Death of Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea
• 1720: Death of John Hughes
• 1720: Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier
• 1720: England begins serializing fiction in newspapers
• 1720: England's war with Spain begins (through 1729)
• 1720: French scientist, Charles Bonnet 1793
• 1720: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Radamisto
• 1720: Hughes, The Siege of Damascus
• 1720: Jacob, The Poetical Register, vol. 2
• 1720: John Gay, Collected Poems
• 1720: John Gay, Collected Poems
• 1720: Jonathan Edwards completes his divinity studies at Yale
• 1720: Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures
• 1720: Marivaux, Arlequin
• 1720: Richard Steele, The Theatre
• 1720: Robert Walpole is appointed Paymaster
• 1720: Senesino and Giovanni Bononcini join the Royal Academy of Music in London
• 1720: Sir James Thornhill is knighted
• 1720: The Declaratory Act gives Westminster the power to legislate over Ireland.
• 1720: The South Sea Bubble: a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley
• 1720: The South Sea bubble (English speculation frenzy, bursts)
• 1720: Townshend is named Lord President
• 1721: Muzio Scaevola (Act III by George Frederick Händel [or Handel])
• 1721: Alexander Pope, To Mr. Addison, To Robert, Earl of Oxford
• 1721: Birth of Akenside
• 1721: Birth of Tobias Smollett
• 1721: Birth of William Collins
• 1721: Birth of William Robertson
• 1721: Charles Gildon, Laws of Poetry
• 1721: Death of Grinling Gibbons, woodcarver
• 1721: Death of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
• 1721: Death of Matthew Prior
• 1721: Death of Stanhope
• 1721: Death of Thomas Doggett
• 1721: Edward Young, Revenge
• 1721: Eliza Haywood, The Fair Captive
• 1721: English novelist, Tobias Smollett 1771
• 1721: George Berkeley, De Motu
• 1721: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Floridante
• 1721: John Dennis, Original Letters
• 1721: Jonathan Swift, Letter to a Young Gentleman Lateley Entered into Holy Orders
• 1721: Joseph Addison, Collected Works
• 1721: Joseph Addison, Collected Works, ed. Thomas Tickell, including Dialogue on Ancient Medals and Evidences of the Christian Religion
• 1721: Montesquieu's novel in letters, Lettres Persanes
• 1721: Montesquieu, Lettres Persanes
• 1721: Nathan Bailey, Universal Etymological English Dictionary
• 1721: Parliament begins proceedings against the suspects in the South Sea Bubble
• 1721: Robert Walpole is appointed Lord Treasurer
• 1721: Samuel Richardson sets up his own printing business
• 1721: Sunderland resigns
• 1721: Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Nystadt
• 1721: Townshend and Carteret (Granville) become Secretaries of State
• 1721: Treaty of Nystadt between Sweden & Russia
• 1722: Ambrose Philips, The Briton
• 1722: Birth of Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender
• 1722: Birth of Christopher Smart
• 1722: Birth of Joseph Warton
• 1722: Buckingham, Works, ed. Alexander Pope (posthumous)
• 1722: Croxall, The Fables of Æsop and Others
• 1722: Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, History of Peter the Great, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders
• 1722: Death of Marlborough
• 1722: Death of Sunderland
• 1722: Death of Toland
• 1722: Diaper and Jones, Halieuticks of Oppian
• 1722: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), 12 Solo Sonatas, Op. 1, and 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2, published
• 1722: Jonathan Edwards completes his Master's degree at Yale, with a thesis "Of Being"; begins his ministry in a Presbyterian church in New York; begins keeping a diary.
• 1722: Matthaus Daniel Popplemann designed Dresden's Zwinger
• 1722: Parliament levies a tax on Roman Catholics
• 1722: Parnell, Poems, ed. Alexander Pope
• 1722: Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers
• 1722: Sir Robert Walpole is made Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury
• 1722: The Atterbury Plot
• 1722: Thomas Tickell, To Sir Godfrey Kneller
• 1722: William Phillips, Hibernia Freed
• 1723: Ambrose Philips, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
• 1723: Atterbury is exiled to the Continent
• 1723: Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, 2nd ed. (includes An Essay on Charity Schools and A Search into the Nature of Society)
• 1723: Birth of Adam Smith
• 1723: Birth of Blackstone
• 1723: Birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds
• 1723: Birth of Sir William Chambers, architect
• 1723: Bolingbroke returns from his exile in France
• 1723: Cuzzoni joints the Royal Academy of Music in London
• 1723: Death of Philip of Orleans, Regent of France
• 1723: Death of Sir Godfrey Kneller, painter
• 1723: Death of Susanna Centlivre
• 1723: Death of Thomas D'Urfey
• 1723: Elijah Fenton, Mariamne
• 1723: Eliza Haywood, A Wife to be Let
• 1723: English painter, Joshua Reynolds 1792
• 1723: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Flavio
• 1723: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Ottone
• 1723: Gilbert Burnet, A History of My Own Time, vol. 1 (through 1735)
• 1723: John Hadley build first 6 inch reflecting telescope with far reaching results
• 1723: John Michael Rysbrack, Roman Marriage
• 1723: Louis XV attains majority
• 1723: Mallet, William and Margaret
• 1723: Matthew Prior, Down Hall (posthumous)
• 1723: Phillip Dodderidge takes his first church at Kibbatworth
• 1723: Richard Savage, Sir Thomas Overbury
• 1723: Susanna Centlivre, The Artifice (posthumous)
• 1723: The Waltham Black Acts add fifty capital offenses to the penal code
• 1723: The Workhouse Act or Test forces the poor to enter a workhouse for relief
• 1723: Voltaire, Henriade
• 1723: Voltaire, La Henriade
• 1723: William Law, Remarks on the Fable of the Bees
• 1724: Tea Table Miscellany, vol. 1 (through 1727)
• 1724: Allan Ramsay, Ever Green
• 1724: Anthony Collins, Grounds of the Christian Religion
• 1724: Birth of Frances Brooke
• 1724: Birth of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
• 1724: Birth of George Stubbs, engraver
• 1724: Birth of Immanuel Kant
• 1724: Birth of William Mason
• 1724: Boyle, State Letters
• 1724: Carteret (Granville) is dismissed from his post as Secretary of State and is replaced by Newcastle
• 1724: Charles Johnson, General History of the Pirates
• 1724: Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, vol. 1; Roxana
• 1724: Death of Charles Gildon
• 1724: Death of Elkanah Settle
• 1724: Disturbances in Scotland over the Malt Tax
• 1724: Eliza Haywood, Memoirs of a Certain Island
• 1724: England's oldest non-university publisher, Longman's, founded
• 1724: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Giulio Cesare
• 1724: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Tamerlano
• 1724: Giovanni Bononcini in the Duchess of Marlborough's service (through 1731)
• 1724: John Gay, The Captives
• 1724: John Oldmixon, A Critical History of England
• 1724: Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letters
• 1724: Vienna's Belvedere Palace is completed
• 1724: Wood proposes his halfpence for Ireland
• 1725: Alexander Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, vol. 1 (books 1 through 3), with Fenton and Broome
• 1725: Alexander Pope, The Works of William Shakespeare
• 1725: Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd
• 1725: Birth of John Newton
• 1725: Birth of William Kenrick (approximate)
• 1725: Catherine I of Russia founds the St Petersburg Academy of Science
• 1725: Daniel Defoe, A New Voyage Round the World, The Complete English Tradesman (through 1727), Jonathan Wild
• 1725: Death of A. Scarlatti, composer
• 1725: Death of Peter I the Great, Tsar of Russia
• 1725: Death of Peter the Great of Russia
• 1725: Echard, History of the Revolution
• 1725: Edward Young, The Universal Passion, parts 1 through 4
• 1725: England, France, and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hanover
• 1725: George Berkeley, A Proposal for Converting the Savage Americans
• 1725: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Rodelinda
• 1725: Greenwich houses Flamsteed's final star catalog
• 1725: Guillame Delisle draws the first accurate map of Europe
• 1725: Hutcheson, The Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
• 1725: Isaac Watts, Logick
• 1725: James Thomson moves to London
• 1725: John James completes St. George's church in London's Hanover Square
• 1725: Mary Davys, Works (2 vols.)
• 1725: Pope's translation of The Odyssey
• 1725: Rapin, History of England, trans. Tindal (begun)
• 1725: Rhode Island's Trinity Church is built
• 1725: Robert Walpole and Townshend become rivals in Parliament
• 1725: Rome's Spanish Steps are completed linking Piazza di Spagna and the Church of Trinita dei Monti
• 1725: Samuel Johnson is at Stourbridge
• 1725: Sir John Mandeville's Travels in their first English version published
• 1725: Somerville, The Two Springs
• 1725: The Empire and Spain sign the Treaty of Vienna
• 1725: Thomas Cooke, The Battle of the Poets
• 1725: Vico, The New Science

• 1726: Tea Table Miscellany, vol. 2 (through 1727)
• 1726: Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance
• 1726: Atterbury, Sermons
• 1726: Bentley, On Latin Metres
• 1726: Birth of Charles Burney, musicologist
• 1726: Birth of Maurice Morgann
• 1726: Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, Pulteney, et al. begin The Craftsman
• 1726: Butler, Fifteen Sermons
• 1726: Charles Wesley enters Christ Church College, Oxford
• 1726: Daniel Defoe, The History of the Devil
• 1726: Death of Jeremy Collier
• 1726: Death of John Vanbrugh, architect and dramatist
• 1726: Death of Lalande, composer
• 1726: Death of William Wotton
• 1726: English geologist, James Hutton 1797
• 1726: Fleury becomes the premier of France
• 1726: French painter (Realism), Francoise Duparc 1778
• 1726: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Alessandro, with Faustina
• 1726: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Scipione
• 1726: James Gibbs completes London's St.Martins in the Field Church
• 1726: James Thomson, Winter
• 1726: John Dennis, The Stage Defended
• 1726: John Dyer, Grongar Hill
• 1726: Jonathan Edwards becomes Associate Minister in Northampton, Massachusetts
• 1726: Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa, Gulliver's Travels
• 1726: Law, Treatise upon Christian Perfection
• 1726: Leonard Welsted, The Dissembled Wanton
• 1726: Lewis Theobald, Shakespeare Restored (an attack on Alexander Pope)
• 1726: Penn, Works, ed. Besse
• 1726: Ripperda, Prime Minister of Spain, is dismissed for incompetence and imprisoned
• 1726: Sir John Vanbrugh's Castle Howard completed in Yorkshire, England
• 1726: Swift, Gulliver's Travels
• 1726: Voltaire travels in England
• 1726: William Law, The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainment Fully Demonstrated
• 1727: 11 June: Death of George I, King of Britain; George II accedes to the throne (11 June)
• 1727: Tea Table Miscellany, vol. 3
• 1727: Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian miscellanies, vols. 1 and 2, including Peri Bathous (through 1735)
• 1727: Birth of George Murphy
• 1727: Birth of John Wilkes
• 1727: Daniel Defoe, The History and Reality of Apparitions
• 1727: Death of Isaac Newton
• 1727: Dorrington, The Hermit, or the History and Adventures of Philip Quarll
• 1727: English painter, Thomas Gainsborough 1788
• 1727: Famous quarrel between Cuzzoni and Faustina at the Royal Academy of Music
• 1727: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) becomes a naturalized British citizen
• 1727: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Admeto
• 1727: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Riccardo I
• 1727: Harte, Poems on Several Occasions
• 1727: Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica, first translated into English
• 1727: James Thomson, Summer
• 1727: Johann Lucas von hildebrandt finishes Salzburg's Mirabell Palace
• 1727: John Dyer, Grongar Hill (finished)
• 1727: John Gay, Fables, vol. 1 (through 1750)
• 1727: Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies
• 1727: Lardner, The Credibility of the Gospel History (through 1757)
• 1727: Lewis Theobald, The Double Falsehood
• 1727: Somerville, Poems, Translations, and Tales
• 1727: Spence, Essay on Pope's Odyssey
• 1727: The Siege of Gibraltar
• 1727: Thomas Woolston, Discourses on the Miracles of Christ (through 1729)
• 1727: Warburton, An Inquiry into Prodigies
• 1728: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, in 3 books
• 1728: Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian miscellanies, vol. 3 (through 1735)
• 1728: Allan Ramsay, Poems
• 1728: Allan Ramsay, Poems
• 1728: Aodh MacCruitín (Hugh MacCurtin), The Elements of the Irish Language
• 1728: Birth of Nicola Piccini, Italian composer
• 1728: Birth of Oliver Goldsmith, playwright, poet, novelist, and critic
• 1728: Birth of Robert Adam, architect
• 1728: Birth of Robert Bage
• 1728: Birth of Captain James Cook
• 1728: Birth of Thomas Warton, Jr., poet and critic
• 1728: Blair, Poem to William Law
• 1728: Colley Cibber, The Provok'd Husband (completes John Vanbrugh's Journey to London)
• 1728: Congress of Soissons
• 1728: Daniel Defoe, Captain Carleton
• 1728: Death of Esther Johnson (Jonathan Swift's "Stella")
• 1728: Death of Steffani, composer
• 1728: Edward Young, The Ocean
• 1728: Edward Young, Vindication of Providence
• 1728: Elizabeth Rowe, Friendship in Death
• 1728: Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia
• 1728: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Siroe
• 1728: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Tolomeo
• 1728: Henry Fielding, Love in Several Masques
• 1728: Hutcheson, The Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections
• 1728: Isaac Watts is awarded an honorary doctorate (D.D.) by the University of Edinburgh
• 1728: James Bradley detects the aberration of light in fixed stars
• 1728: James Bradley records his observation of the aberration of light
• 1728: James Thomson, Spring
• 1728: John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
• 1728: John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
• 1728: John Wesley ordained
• 1728: Jonathan Swift et al., The Intelligencer (through 1729)
• 1728: Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland
• 1728: Pierre Fauchard writes the first modern textbook on dentistry
• 1728: Richard Savage, Nature in Perfection, The Bastard
• 1728: Royal Academy of Music fails
• 1728: Samuel Johnson matriculates at Pembroke College, Oxford
• 1728: Scottish chemist, Joseph Black 1799
• 1728: The first American synagogue is built in New York City by Jewish colonists
• 1728: William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
• 1729: 25 December: Phillip Dodderidge begins ministry at Northampton Presbyterian church
• 1729: Albrecht von Haller's pastoral poem The Alps

• 1729: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad Variorum
• 1729: Benjamin Franklin begins publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette
• 1729: Birth of Edmund Burke
• 1729: Birth of John William Fletcher
• 1729: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 1796
• 1729: Death of Colen Campbell, Scottish lawyer and architect
• 1729: Death of Richard Steele
• 1729: December: Samuel Johnson leaves Oxford and returns to Lichfield
• 1729: English architect,Robert Adam 1792
• 1729: Frederick Louis is created Prince of Wales
• 1729: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) travels to Italy and Germany
• 1729: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Lotario
• 1729: German writer, Ephraim Gotthold Lessing 1781
• 1729: Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
• 1729: Stephen Gray of England discovers the principle of electrical conduction
• 1730: 15 May: Sir Robert Walpole becomes Prime Minister
• 1730: Birth of Josiah Wedgwood, potter
• 1730: Birth of Paul Sandby, painter
• 1730: Birth of William Smith, actor and manager
• 1730: Charles Wesley completes his studies at Christ Church, Oxford
• 1730: English writer, Oliver Goldsmith 1774
• 1730: George Brandt of Sweden discovers cobalt
• 1730: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Partenope
• 1730: Isaac Watts, Catechisms
• 1730: James Thomson, The Season
• 1730: James Thomson, The Seasons
• 1730: Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation
• 1730: October 23: Death of Anne Oldfield, actress
• 1730: René Réaumur invents the alcohol thermometer and temperature scale
• 1730: Russia's Ladoga canal built
• 1730: Townshed quarrels with Walpole and resigns as Secretary of State
• 1731: Alexander Pope begins publishing his Moral Essays
• 1731: Benjamin Franklin founds the first public library in North America, the Library Company of Philadelphia
• 1731: Birth of Henry Cavendish, English scientist
• 1731: Birth of William Cowper
• 1731: Death of Daniel Defoe
• 1731: Death of Michael Johnson, father of Samuel Johnson
• 1731: December: Birth of Erasmus Darwin, English biologist
• 1731: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Poro
• 1731: James Thomson begins his Grand Tour
• 1731: London's 10 Downing Street is built as a residence for the prime minister
• 1731: Spanish dramatist, Ramon de la Cruz 1794
• 1731: The reflecting quadrant invented by John Hadley aids mariners navigation
• 1732: Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian miscellanies, vol. 4 (through 1735)
• 1732: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac (through 1757)
• 1732: Birth of Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
• 1732: Birth of John Wood the Younger, architect
• 1732: Death of John Gay, poet and playwright
• 1732: English inventor, Richard Arkwright 1792
• 1732: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Ezio
• 1732: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Sosarme
• 1732: George Washington, US President 1799
• 1732: George Whitefield enters Pembroke College, Oxford, and becomes a Methodist
• 1732: Giovanni Bononcini accused of plagiary and association with an alchemist
• 1732: Hermann Boerhaave, Elementa Chemia
• 1732: Isaac Watts, Scripture History
• 1732: John Wesley first visits William Law
• 1732: King George II grants Georgia to James Oglethorpe, who settles in the area in 1733
• 1732: Samuel Johnson is an usher at Market Bosworth School
• 1732: The first running of the The London Magazine
• 1732: William Hogart, A Harlot's Progress
• 1733: Alexander Pope begins publishing his Imitations of Horace
• 1733: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
• 1733: Antoine François Prévost, Manon Lescaut
• 1733: Birth of Johann Zoffany, painter
• 1733: Birth of Joseph Priestley, English chemist and radical
• 1733: Charles Macklin debuts at Drury Lane as "Brazen" in Farquhuar's Recruiting Officer
• 1733: Chesterfield's opposition to the Excise Bill leads to his dismissal as Lord Steward
• 1733: Death of François Couperin, French composer
• 1733: Death of Frederick Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland
• 1733: France and Spain enter into the Treaty of the Escorial against Britain
• 1733: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Deborah
• 1733: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Orlando
• 1733: John Wesley preaches "The Circumcision of the Heart" at Oxford
• 1733: Laurence Sterne goes to Cambridge
• 1733: Samuel Johnson lives in Birmingham; translates Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia
• 1733: Samuel Richardson, The Apprentice's Vade Mecum
• 1733: The Excise crisis; Robert Walpole is forced to withdraw the Excise bill
• 1733: The Molasses Act imposes high taxes on suar, molasses, and rum imported from non-British islands in the Caribbean
• 1733: Voltaire, English Letters
• 1733: War of Polish Succession (through 1735)
• 1733: War of the Polish Succession (through 1735)
• 1734: Aaron Hill begins publishing a theatrical paper, The Prompter, continued into 1736
• 1734: Allan Ramsay studies in London under the Swedish artist, Hysing
• 1734: Birth of George Romney, painter
• 1734: Birth of Joseph Wright of Derby
• 1734: Charles Johnson, The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen
• 1734: Death of Sir James Thornhill, painter
• 1734: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), 6 Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
• 1734: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Il Parnasso in Festa
• 1734: John Stanley appointed organist at the Inner Temple
• 1734: The Great Awakening begins in December in Massachusetts
• 1734: The Nobility Opera opens
• 1734: Voltaire Letters philosophiques
• 1735: Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian miscellanies, vol. 5
• 1735: Birth of Johann Christian Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1735: Birth of John Adams, American President
• 1735: Carolus Linnaeus (Carl Linné) of Sweden, Systema Naturae
• 1735: Charles Marie discovers rubber in South America
• 1735: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Alcina
• 1735: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Ariodante
• 1735: Harrison develops his first chronometer to help determine the longitude of ships at sea
• 1735: James Thomson, Liberty
• 1735: Jonathan Swift's Works published by Faulkner
• 1735: Louis-François Roubiliac settles in London
• 1735: Macklin kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam in a backstage dispute about a wig
• 1735: No opera season in London
• 1735: Samuel Johnson marries Elizabeth Jervis Porter ("Tetty")
• 1735: Sir William Yonge becomes Secretary at War
• 1735: William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress
• 1736: 39 Russian, Austrian, Turkish War
• 1736: Allan Ramsay travels to Italy
• 1736: Birth of James Macpherson, Scottish poet and forger
• 1736: Birth of James Watt, Scottish engineer
• 1736: Charles Avison becomes organist at St. Nicholas's Church, Newcastle, and organizes some of England's first subscription concerts
• 1736: Death of Nicholas Hawksmoor, English architect
• 1736: Death of Pergolesi, composer
• 1736: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Alexander's Feast, with text by Dryden
• 1736: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Atalanta
• 1736: Henry Fielding becomes a dramatic producer with Pasquin
• 1736: Russia, Austria, and Turkey enter into war
• 1736: Samuel Johnson teaches at Edial school and begins Irene
• 1736: William Boyce appointed composer at the Chapel Royal
• 1737: Birth of Edward Gibbon
• 1737: Both of London's opera houses fail
• 1737: Carolus Linnaeus publishes his classification of plant life
• 1737: Death of Nathanael Johnson, brother of Samuel Johnson
• 1737: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) suffers a stroke and travels to Aix-la-Chapelle
• 1737: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Arminio
• 1737: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Berenice
• 1737: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Giustino
• 1737: In Connecticut, the first copper coins are minted in the North American colonies
• 1737: Italian physicist and physician, Luigi Galvani 1798
• 1737: Jonathan Edwards, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
• 1737: Laurence Sterne takes orders
• 1737: Licensing Act passed
• 1737: Licensing Act regulates the theatres in London
• 1737: March 2: Samuel Johnson and David Garrick set off for London from Lichfield
• 1737: November: Death of Queen Caroline
• 1737: William Boyce conducts the Three Choirs Festival
• 1737: William Shenstone, Poems on Various Occasions
• 1738: Birth of Benjamin West, painter
• 1738: Birth of Charles Cornwallis, British general and govenor
• 1738: Birth of George III, King of Great Britain
• 1738: Birth of William Herschel, astronomer
• 1738: Britain begins an investigation into Spain's treatment of British sailors
• 1738: Daniel Bernoulli discovers the laws relating fluid flow to pressure
• 1738: David Malcolm, Dissertations on the Celtic Languages
• 1738: Death of Mouret, composer
• 1738: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), 6 Organ Concertos, Op. 4
• 1738: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Faramondo
• 1738: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Serse
• 1738: John Gay, Fables, vol. 2 (through 1750) (posthumous)
• 1738: Laurence Sterne becomes vicar of Sutton-in-the-Forest
• 1738: Louis-François Roubiliac creates a sculpture of Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel) for Vauxhall Gardens
• 1738: Samuel Johnson begins to write for The Gentleman's Magazine
• 1738: Samuel Johnson, "London," The Life of Sarpi, The State of Affairs in Lilliput
• 1738: System of forced labor to build roads in France the "corvee" devisedby Jean Orry
• 1738: The first excavations at Herculaneum begin
• 1738: Thomas Arne, Comus
• 1738: Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, vol. 1 (through 1741)
• 1739: Birth of Dittersdorf, composer
• 1739: Birth of Vanhal, composer
• 1739: David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, vol. 1 (through 1740)
• 1739: Death of B. Marcello, composer
• 1739: Death of Keiser, composer
• 1739: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), 7 Trio Sonatas, Op. 5
• 1739: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Israel in Egypt
• 1739: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
• 1739: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Saul
• 1739: Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray begin their Grand Tour of the Continent
• 1739: Jenkins's War in Florida (through 1742)
• 1739: Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
• 1739: October: England declares war on Spain
• 1739: Samuel Johnson makes a long visit to the Midlands
• 1739: Samuel Johnson, Marmor Norfolciense, A Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, translation of Crousaz's Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man
• 1739: Swift's satire, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
• 1740: Anson begins his circumnavigation of the globe
• 1740: Birth of James Boswell
• 1740: Birth of Joseph Brant
• 1740: Birth of Matthias Claudius, German poet
• 1740: Birth of Woodforde
• 1740: Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
• 1740: David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, vol. 2 (begun 1739)
• 1740: Death of Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
• 1740: Death of Sir William Wyndham
• 1740: Death of Thomas Tickell
• 1740: Fifty slaves are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, for a planned rebellion
• 1740: First Silesian War against Maria Theresa (War of Austrian Succession)
• 1740: Frederick the Great founds the Berlin Academy of Science in Germany
• 1740: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
• 1740: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), 6 Organ Concertos
• 1740: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Imeneo
• 1740: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
• 1740: George Whitefield, A Short Account of God's Dealings with George Whitefield
• 1740: Henry Fielding called to the bar
• 1740: Jean Astruc, Venereal Diseases
• 1740: John Dyer, The Ruins of Rome
• 1740: Samuel Johnson begins his reports of the Parliamentary debates
• 1740: Samuel Johnson, Life of Blake, Life of Drake, Life of Barretier
• 1740: Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded
• 1740: Samuel Richardson, Pamela (through 1741)
• 1740: The University of Pennsylvania is founded by Benjamin Franklin
• 1740: The War of Austrian Succession begins as Frederick II invades Silesia (through 1748); in Georgia, Virginia, and the Caribbean, it is known as King George's War (1743-48)
• 1740: Thomas Arne sets James Thomson's "Rule Britannia"
• 1741: Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, et al., The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
• 1741: Birth of Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter
• 1741: Birth of Arthur Young
• 1741: Birth of Grétry, composer
• 1741: Birth of Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale Piozzi, English writer
• 1741: Birth of Paisiello, composer
• 1741: Birth of Sylas Neville
• 1741: Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero
• 1741: David Garrick, The Lying Valet
• 1741: David Hume, Essays Moral and Political (through 1742)
• 1741: Death of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
• 1741: February 11: Macklin's first performance as Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
• 1741: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) travels to Dublin
• 1741: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Deidamia
• 1741: Henry Fielding, Shamela
• 1741: Horace Walpole becomes an MP in a General Election
• 1741: Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
• 1741: Laurence Sterne becomes prebendary of York
• 1741: Laurence Stone marries Elizabeth Lumley
• 1741: P. L. M. de Maupertuis, Essai de cosmologie, suggests the notion of "survival of the fittest"
• 1741: Parliament debates removing Robert Walpole, whose support drops
• 1741: Samuel Johnson, Debates in the Senate of Lilliput for The Gentleman's Magazine (through 1744)
• 1741: Samuel Richardson, Familiar Letters
• 1741: Samuel Richardson, Familiar Letters
• 1741: Tees, England is home to the first suspension bridge
• 1741: The British launch an unsuccessful expedition to the Caribbean
• 1741: The Highway Act
• 1741: Tobias Smollett serves as navy surgeon in the West Indies
• 1741: Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, vol. 2 (begun 1738)
• 1742: Alexander Pope, The Fourth Book of the Dunciad (The New Dunciad)
• 1742: Birth of Gilbert Stuart
• 1742: Birth of Nicholas Leblanc, French chemist
• 1742: Carteret (Granville) and Newcastle are named Secretaries of State
• 1742: Charles Marie de Lacondamine establishes the Celsius temperature scale, named for Anders Celsius
• 1742: Death of Richard Bentley
• 1742: Death of William Somerville
• 1742: Edward Young, The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts (through 1746)
• 1742: February: Sir Robert Walpole is created Earl of Orford
• 1742: Georg Friedrich Händel (or Handel), Messiah
• 1742: Gower becomes Lord Privy Seal
• 1742: Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
• 1742: Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
• 1742: Jean Malouin galvanizes iron
• 1742: Pulteney is created Earl of Bath
• 1742: Sandys becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1742: Sir Robert Walpole is forced to resign as Prime Minister
• 1742: Swedish chemist, Karl Scheele 1786
• 1742: William Collins' Persian Eclogues
• 1742: William Collins, Persian Eclogues
• 1742: William Shenstone, The Schoolmistress (revised)
• 1743: 1 August: Death of Richard Savage
• 1743: 48 King George's War fought in North America and Caribbean
• 1743: Birth of Boccherini, composer
• 1743: Birth of Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian writer
• 1743: Birth of H. Carey
• 1743: Birth of Sir Joseph Banks
• 1743: Birth of Thomas Jefferson, American President
• 1743: Danish poet, lyricist and dramatist, Johannes Ewald 1781
• 1743: Death of Paley
• 1743: Death of Thomas Archer, architect
• 1743: Francis, The Odes of Horace (translated)
• 1743: French chemist, Antoine Lavoisier 1794
• 1743: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Dettingen Te Deum and Anthem
• 1743: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Samson
• 1743: Henry Fielding, Miscellanies (including Jonathan Wild)
• 1743: Henry Fielding, The Wedding Day
• 1743: Jean Marat, French revolutionary 1793
• 1743: Robert Blair, The Grave
• 1743: Robert Blair, The Grave
• 1743: Samuel Johnson begins work on the Harleian library
• 1743: The Battle of Dettingen: George II witnesses the French defeat
• 1743: Thomas Sheridan, Captain O'Blunder; or, The Brave Irishman
• 1743: William Collins, Verses to Sir Thomas Hanmer
• 1744: 30 May: Death of Alexander Pope
• 1744: Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination
• 1744: Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health
• 1744: Benjamin Franklin invents the "potbelly" stove, later known as the Franklin stove
• 1744: Birth of Anne Vallayer Coster, French painter
• 1744: Birth of Sir Joseph Banks
• 1744: Carteret (Granville) is forced to resign over the war
• 1744: Clive arrives in Madras
• 1744: Death of Campra, composer
• 1744: Death of Leo, composer
• 1744: Death of Lewis Theobald
• 1744: France declares war on Maria Theresa and England
• 1744: George Berkeley, Philosophical Reflections concerning Tar-Water
• 1744: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Joseph and His Brethren
• 1744: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Semele
• 1744: Hardwicke becomes Lord Chancellor
• 1744: Henry Pelham is appointed Lord Treasurer
• 1744: John Newbury's children's book, The Little Pretty Pocket Book
• 1744: Joseph Warton, The Enthusiast
• 1744: Lyttelton and George Grenville are junior ministers
• 1744: Newcastle becomes Secretary of State
• 1744: Samuel Johnson, Life of Mr. Richard Savage
• 1744: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Richard Savage, The Harleian Miscellany
• 1744: Sarah Fielding, David Simple
• 1744: Second Silesian war begins
• 1744: The French declare war on Britain and Maria Theresa, provoking fears of an invasion
• 1744: Tobias Smollett sets up a medical practice in London
• 1745: Akenside, Odes on Several Subjects
• 1745: August: The 'Forty-Five: Jacobite rebellion in Scotland: Charles Edward (the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie) lands in the western Highlands and wins the battle of Prestonpans
• 1745: Birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist
• 1745: Birth of Hayley
• 1745: Birth of Henry Mackenzie
• 1745: Birth of Holcroft
• 1745: Birth of J. Nichols
• 1745: Birth of Pye
• 1745: Charles Bonnet discovers parthenogenesis
• 1745: Death of Albinoni, composer
• 1745: Death of Jonathan Richardson, Senior, painter
• 1745: Death of Jonathan Swift
• 1745: Death of Robert Walpole, British statesman (18 March)
• 1745: E. J. von Kleist invents the "Leyden jar," later known as a capacitor, for short-term storage of electricity
• 1745: Fordyce, Dialogues concerning Education (through 1748)
• 1745: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Belshazzar
• 1745: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Hercules
• 1745: J. Brown, Essay on Satire
• 1745: James Thomson, Tancred and Sigismunda
• 1745: Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
• 1745: Louis-François Roubiliac teaches sculpture at St. Martin's Lane Academy
• 1745: Samuel Johnson, Proposals for a New Edition of Shakespeare, including Observations on Macbeth
• 1745: William Hogarth, Marriage à la Mode
• 1746: April: At Culloden, five thousand Scottish Highlanders face the Duke of Cumberland with his nine thousand loyalists Scots. The supporters of the Pretender are defeated, and Charles Edward flees to France
• 1746: Benjamin Franklin performs his experiments confirming that lightning is a form of electricity
• 1746: Birth of Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter
• 1746: Birth of Jacques Charles, French physicist
• 1746: Birth of Sir William Jones
• 1746: Blacklock, Poems
• 1746: Chesterfield becomes Secretary of State
• 1746: Christian F&7uml;chtegott Gellert, Tales and Fables
• 1746: Death of F. Hutcheson
• 1746: Death of Robert Blair
• 1746: Death of Thomas Southerne
• 1746: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Occasional Oratorio
• 1746: Gustavus III, King of Sweden 1792
• 1746: James Hervey, Meditations and Contemplations
• 1746: Jean Etienne Guettard draws the first geological map of France
• 1746: John Roebuck of England develops a process to produce sulfuric acid
• 1746: Joseph Warton, Odes on Various Subjects
• 1746: P. Francis, The Satires of Horace (translated)
• 1746: Pitt becomes Paymaster General
• 1746: Samuel Johnson signs the contract for his Dictionary of the English Language, agreeing to deliver it in three years
• 1746: Sir William Yonge is no longer Secretary at War
• 1746: William Collins, Odes
• 1746: William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham, takes office in Britain
• 1747: Benjamin Hoadly, The Suspicious Husband
• 1747: Birth of Anna Seward
• 1747: David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens
• 1747: Death of William Congreve, English dramatist
• 1747: Engineer School of Bridges and Highways established in France
• 1747: France opens Engineer School of Bridges and Highways
• 1747: General election
• 1747: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Judas Maccabaeus
• 1747: Horace Walpole acquires Strawberry Hill in Twickenham
• 1747: Kippis et al., Biographia Britannica (through 1766)
• 1747: La Mettrie, Man a Machine

• 1747: Laurence Sterne, The Case of Elijah
• 1747: Lyttelton, Monody
• 1747: Mason, Musaeus
• 1747: Paul Sandby arrives in London and begins sketches for the military survey of Scotland (through 1752)
• 1747: Samuel Johnson, Plan of the English Dictionary, dedicated to Lord Chesterfield
• 1747: Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (through 1748)
• 1747: The British score naval victories near France
• 1747: Thomas Gray, Ode on Eton College
• 1747: Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
• 1747: Thomas Warton, The Pleasures of Melancholy
• 1747: Voltaire, Zadig
• 1748: Akenside, Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon
• 1748: Birth of Claude Berthollet, French chemist
• 1748: Birth of Jeremy Bentham
• 1748: Birth of Thomas Day
• 1748: British sculptor (Portraiture), Anne Seymour Damer 1828
• 1748: Colin Maclaurin, Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries (posthumous)
• 1748: David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• 1748: Death of Isaac Watts
• 1748: Death of James Thomson
• 1748: Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
• 1748: Death of William Kent, painter, architect, and designer
• 1748: Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, vols. 1-3, including Thomas Gray, "Ode to Spring" and "On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-Fishes"
• 1748: E. Moore, The Foundling
• 1748: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Alexander Balus
• 1748: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Joshua
• 1748: Gilpin, Dialogue upon the Gardens at Stow
• 1748: Hamilton of Bangour, Poems on Several Occasions
• 1748: Henry Fielding opens a puppet theater
• 1748: James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence
• 1748: John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) (through 1749)
• 1748: John Fothergill of England first describes diphtheria
• 1748: John Turberville Needham, Observations upon the Generation, Composition, and Decomposition of Animal and Vegetable Substances, demonstrating spontaneous generation of life
• 1748: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Lover: A Ballad
• 1748: Leonhard Euler of Switzerland, Analysis Infinitorum, on analytical mathematics
• 1748: Melmoth, Letters by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne
• 1748: Montesquieu, L'Esprit des Lois
• 1748: Samuel Johnson, Preface to The Preceptor
• 1748: Samuel Richardson's novel, Clarissa
• 1748: The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
• 1748: Tobias Smollett, Roderick Random
• 1748: Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random
• 1748: Treaty of Aix la Chapelle signed ending the War of Austrian Succession
• 1749: The Monthly Review begins (through 1845)
• 1749: August: Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 1749: Birth of Charlotte Smith, poet and novelist
• 1749: Birth of Daniel Rutherford, English chemist
• 1749: Birth of Edward Jenner, English physician
• 1749: Birth of Hickey
• 1749: Birth of Honoré de Mirabeau, French statesman
• 1749: Birth of Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist
• 1749: David Hartley, Observations on Man
• 1749: Ewald von Kleist, Der Frühling (The Spring)

• 1749: French painter (Romanticism), Adelaide Labille Guiard 1803
• 1749: George Frederick Händel (or Handel) gives first Foundling Hospital benefit concert
• 1749: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Music for the Royal Fireworks, in celebration of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle
• 1749: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Solomon
• 1749: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Susanna
• 1749: Georges Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 1
• 1749: Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
• 1749: Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
• 1749: Lancelot "Capability" Brown sets up as a freelance gardener and landscape architect
• 1749: Samuel Johnson, Irene, produced by David Garrick, with an epilogue by Sir William Yonge
• 1749: Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, the letter on fireworks
• 1749: Sir Joshua Reynolds travels to Italy (until 1752)
• 1749: Sir William Chambers studies architecture in Paris
• 1749: St. John (Bolinbroke), On the Spirit of Patriotism, The Idea of a Patriot King
• 1749: The rising national debt leads to a reduction on the interest on government stock
• 1749: Thomas Warton, The Triumph of Isis
• 1749: West, The Odes of Pindar (translated)
• 1749: William Boyce receives his Doctorate of Music from Cambridge
• 1749: William Collins, On the Death of Thomson, The Passions
• 1750: Around this time a light 2 wheel hooded, open carriage called a "Cabriolet" was common in France
• 1750: Birth of Adam Fergusson
• 1750: Birth of Antonio Salieri, Italian composer
• 1750: Birth of Martin Sherlock
• 1750: Charlotte Lennox, Harriot Stuart
• 1750: Christopher Smart, The Eternity of Supreme Being
• 1750: Death of Aaron Hill
• 1750: Death of Conyers Middleton, writer
• 1750: Death of Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1750: Henry Brooke, The Earl of Essex
• 1750: James Thomson, Poems on Several Occasions (posthumous)
• 1750: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur les sciences et les arts
• 1750: John Baskerville develops the typeface named after him
• 1750: John Cleland, The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill
• 1750: Jonathan Edwards dismissed from his post as pastor in Northampton
• 1750: London experiences two (minor) earthquakes
• 1750: Montesquieu, Defense de LEsprit des lois
• 1750: Nicolas Lacaille records and catalogs approx.10,000 stars from theCape of Good Hope
• 1750: Richard Wilson studies painting in Venice
• 1750: Samuel Johnson begins The Rambler (through 1752)
• 1750: Sir William Chambers studies architecture in Italy
• 1750: W. Whitehead, The Roman Father
• 1750: Westminster Bridge opens across the River Thames in London
• 1750: William Warburton, Julian
• 1750: William Watson of England analyzes platinum
• 1751: A. Croustedt of Germany isolates nickel
• 1751: Birth of Joshua Hupmhreys, American ship designer
• 1751: Birth of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist
• 1751: Birth of Wraxall
• 1751: Cambridge, The Scribleriad
• 1751: Clive takes Arcot
• 1751: Coventry, Pompey the Little
• 1751: David Hume, Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals
• 1751: Death of Fordyce
• 1751: Death of Frederick Lewis, the Prince of Wales; George III becomes next in line for the throne
• 1751: Death of St. John (Bolinbroke)
• 1751: Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
• 1751: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Choice of Hercules
• 1751: Henry Fielding, Amelia, The Late Increase of Robbers
• 1751: J. Harris, Hermes
• 1751: Jonathan Edwards becomes pastor and missionary to the Indians in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
• 1751: Joseph Wright of Derby studies under Hudson (through 1757)
• 1751: Lord Kames, The Principles of Morality and Natural Religion
• 1751: Paltock, Peter Wilkins
• 1751: Pierre de Maupertuis, in Système de la Nature, challenges Needham's demonstration of spontaneous generation
• 1751: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cheynel
• 1751: Sultan Muhammad Alimudin is imprisoned in Manila, Philippines
• 1751: The Currency Act bans the issuing of paper money in the New England colonies
• 1751: The Gin Act
• 1751: Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
• 1751: Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard
• 1751: Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
• 1751: Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• 1751: Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV
• 1751: West, Education
• 1752: American's first general hospital is founded in Philadelphia
• 1752: Birth of Frances (Fanny) Burney
• 1752: Birth of John Nash, English architect
• 1752: Birth of Joseph Marie Jacquard, French engineer and inventor
• 1752: Birth of Thomas Chatterton
• 1752: Birth of Vicesimus Knox
• 1752: Britain abandons the Julian and adopts the Gregorian calendar, losing ten days in September
• 1752: Charles Avison, Essay on Music Expressions
• 1752: Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
• 1752: Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
• 1752: Christopher Smart, Poems on Several Occasions
• 1752: Clive takes Trichinopoly
• 1752: David Hume, Political Discourses
• 1752: Death of Elizabeth Johnson ("Tetty"), wife of Samuel Johnson
• 1752: Death of Joseph Butler
• 1752: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Jephtha
• 1752: Irish Language Society established in Dublin
• 1752: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Devin du village (comic opera)
• 1752: Richard Wilson studies painting in Rome (through 1757)
• 1752: Samuel Johnson concludes The Rambler
• 1752: September 14, Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar this day
• 1752: St. John (Bolinbroke), Letters on the Study and Use of History (posthumous)
• 1752: The British and French fight in both America and India
• 1752: The French advance on the Ohio Valley, and establish two forts south of Lake Erie
• 1752: The idea for screw propellers for ships was introduced by Daniel Bernouilli
• 1753: Birth of Benjamin Thompson, American scientist
• 1753: Birth of Elizabeth Inchbald, English actress, playwright, and novelist
• 1753: Birth of Lazare Carnot, French revolutionary war minister
• 1753: Birth of Samuel Crompton, English inventor
• 1753: Charlotte Lennox, Shakespeare Illustrated
• 1753: Christopher Smart, The Hilliad
• 1753: Death of George Berkeley
• 1753: Death of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, architect
• 1753: E. Moore, The Gamester
• 1753: Edward Young, The Brothers
• 1753: George Washington delivers a message to the French, telling them to abandon their position in Ohio; they refuse
• 1753: Glover, Boadicea
• 1753: Hardwicke's Marriage Act
• 1753: Jane Collier, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
• 1753: Jaques Daviel of France develops techniques for cataract surgery
• 1753: Robert Lowth, Praelectiones de sacra posei Hebraeorum
• 1753: Samuel Johnson contributes to The Adventurer (through 1754)
• 1753: Samuel Johnson takes Frank Barber into his care
• 1753: Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison
• 1753: Samuel Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (through 1754)
• 1753: Sarah Fielding, David Simple, "Volume the Last"
• 1753: Thomas Gray, Hymn to Adversity
• 1753: Tobias Smollett, Ferdinand Count Fathom
• 1753: Tobias Smollett, Ferdinand Count Fathom
• 1753: Wilkie, The Epigoniad
• 1753: William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty
• 1754: Anson becomes First Lord of the Admiralty
• 1754: Battle at Fort Necessity, Ohio
• 1754: Birth of Charles de Talleyrand, French statesman
• 1754: Birth of Crabbe
• 1754: Condillac, Traite des sensations
• 1754: David Hume, The History of Great Britain (through 1763)
• 1754: Death of Coventry
• 1754: Death of Hamilton of Bangour
• 1754: Death of Henry Fielding
• 1754: Death of Henry Pelham
• 1754: Death of James Gibbs, Scottish architect
• 1754: Death of John Wood the Elder, architect
• 1754: Edward Young, The Centaur not Fabulous
• 1754: Eruption of the Taal Volcano destroys Tall, Tanaúan, Sala, and Lipa in the Philippines
• 1754: Frances Brooke, Virginia
• 1754: George Stubbs visits Rome
• 1754: Henry Fox becomes Secretary at War, then Secretary of State
• 1754: Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Collected Works
• 1754: Johann Christian Bach becomes music director to Count Litta in Milan
• 1754: Louis XVI, King of France 1793
• 1754: Newcastle becomes Lord Treasurer
• 1754: Philadelphia's Christ Church completed
• 1754: Samuel Johnson, The Life of Cave
• 1754: The French take Fort Duquesne as the Anglo-French War (also known as the French and Indian War) begins in North America
• 1754: The Philippines sign a treaty with Sultan Muhammad Alimudin
• 1754: The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg completed by Italian architectBartolomeo Rastrelli
• 1754: Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
• 1754: Thomas Warton, Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser
• 1754: W. Whitehad, Creusa, Queen of Athens
• 1754: William Cowper called to the bar
• 1754: William Hogarth, The Election
• 1755: 7 February: Samuel Johnson's famous letter to Lord Chesterfield on the patronage of the Dictionary
• 1755: A major earthquake strikes Lisbon
• 1755: Amory, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain
• 1755: Benjamin Franklin unsuccessfully proposes a union of the British colonies in North America to resist the French
• 1755: Birth of Elisabeth Vigee Legrun, French painter
• 1755: Birth of Marie Vigee Lebrun, French painter
• 1755: Construction begins on the Pantheon in Paris; designed by Jacques Germain Soufflot
• 1755: Death of Durante, composer
• 1755: Dosley, A Collection of Poems, vol. 4
• 1755: Eliza Haywood, The Invisible Spy
• 1755: Grainger, An Ode on Solitude
• 1755: Henry Fielding, Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (posthumous)
• 1755: J. Browne, Barbarossa
• 1755: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l'Inégalité (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality)
• 1755: Lyttelton becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1755: November 1, Lisbon earthquake and subsequent tidal wave kills as many as 30,000 60,000 people
• 1755: Pitt and Grenville are dismissed
• 1755: Pitt attacks the Russian and Hessian subsidy treaties
• 1755: Samuel Johnson receives an honorary Master of Arts from Oxford
• 1755: Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language
• 1755: Shebbeare, Lydia
• 1755: Sir William Chambers, architect, returns to London from Italy, and secures the patronage of the Prince and Princess of Wales
• 1755: Smollett, translation of Cervantes, Don Quixote
• 1755: The Corsicans rise against Genoa, led by Paoli
• 1755: The French defeat Braddock
• 1755: The Philippines banish over 2,000 Chinese
• 1755: The University of Moscow is founded in Russia
• 1755: Voltaire, Orpheline de la Chine
• 1755: William Boyce is appointed Master of the King's Musick
• 1756: Amory, John Buncle
• 1756: April: Samuel Johnson edits The Literary Magazine
• 1756: Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1791
• 1756: Birth of Gifford
• 1756: Birth of James Gillray, caricaturist
• 1756: Birth of John McAdam, Scottish surveyor
• 1756: Birth of John Trumbull, American painter
• 1756: Birth of Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist
• 1756: Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1756: Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
• 1756: Death of Eliza Haywood
• 1756: Death of Gilbert West
• 1756: E. Moore, Poems
• 1756: Imperial Observatory of Vienna founded
• 1756: J. Brown, Athelstan
• 1756: January: Britain and Prussia join in the Treaty of Westminster
• 1756: Joseph Black of Scotland discovers carbonic acid gas
• 1756: Joseph Warton, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope
• 1756: March: Birth of William Godwin
• 1756: Mason, Odes
• 1756: November: Newcastle resigns
• 1756: Pitt is appointed Secretary of State
• 1756: Salomon Gessner, Idyls and Unkel andYariko
• 1756: Samuel Foote, The Englishman Returned from Paris
• 1756: Samuel Johnson, Preface to Rolt's Dictionary of Commerce, Life of Frederick the Great
• 1756: The "Black Hole of Calcutta" in India
• 1756: The French take Minorca; Admiral Byng is court-martialed and (in 1757) executed for failing to prevent it
• 1756: The House of Lords rejects Townshend's first Militia Bill
• 1756: The Royal Society of Naples is founded in Italy
• 1756: The Seven Years War between England and France begins, creating fears of a French invasion of England
• 1756: The Vienna Imperial Observatory is founded in Austria
• 1756: Tobias Smollett founds The Critical Review (runs through 1817)
• 1756: Voltaire, Désastre de Lisbonne
• 1756: Voltaire, Essay on Morals
• 1756: Voltaire, Le Désastre de Lisbonne
• 1757: Admiral Byng is executed
• 1757: Anson becomes Secretary of the Admiralty
• 1757: April: Pitt is dismissed
• 1757: Birth of Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
• 1757: Birth of Charles X, King of France
• 1757: Birth of James Gillray, English cartoonist
• 1757: Birth of John Kemble, actor
• 1757: Birth of Marie Joseph de Lafayette, French general and statesman
• 1757: Birth of Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer
• 1757: Charitable Musical Society of Dublin founded to give interest-free loans to distressed families
• 1757: Christian Füchtegott Gellert, GeistlicheOden und Lieder
• 1757: David Hume, Four Dissertations; "Of Tragedy"
• 1757: Death of Benjamin Hoadly
• 1757: Death of Colley Cibber, English actor
• 1757: Death of Domenico Scarlatti, composer
• 1757: Death of E. Moore
• 1757: Death of J. Stamitz, composer
• 1757: Denis Diderot, Fils Naturel and Entretiens avec Dorval
• 1757: Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful
• 1757: George Frederick Händel (or Handel), The Triumph of Time and Truth
• 1757: Halifax takes over the Board of Trade and Plantations
• 1757: Home, Douglas
• 1757: Horace Walpole sets up a printing press at Strawberry Hill
• 1757: Hume, The Natural History of Religion
• 1757: John Brown, An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
• 1757: John Dyer's poem The Fleece
• 1757: John Dyer, The Fleece
• 1757: June: Clive wins the Battle of Plassey
• 1757: June: The coalition ministry
• 1757: Newcastle becomes Lord Treasurer
• 1757: November: Birth of William Blake
• 1757: Pitt becomes Secreatry of State
• 1757: Samuel Johnson, review of Soame Jenyns, An Enquiry into the Origin of Evil
• 1757: The Nawab of Bengal is defeated in his attempt to expel the British from India
• 1757: Thomas Gray, Odes (published by Horace Walpole), including "The Progress of Poesy" and "The Bard"
• 1757: Tobias Smollett, Complete History of England (through 1765)
• 1757: Whitehead named Poet Laureate
• 1757: Wilkie, The Epigoniad
• 1758: Birth of E. C. Knight
• 1758: Birth of Franz Joseph Gall
• 1758: Birth of Horatio Nelson
• 1758: Birth of Horatio Nelson, British admiral
• 1758: Charlotte Lennox, Henrietta
• 1758: Construction begins on a canal between Liverpool and Leeds
• 1758: Death of Allan Ramsay, poet
• 1758: Death of James Hervey
• 1758: Death of John Dyer
• 1758: Death of Jonathan Edwards
• 1758: Denis Diderot, Pere du famille, Discours sur la poésie dramatique
• 1758: Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, vols. 5-6
• 1758: Dodsley, Cleone
• 1758: Duquesne is taken, and renamed Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh)
• 1758: Edward Gibbon returns to England from the Continent
• 1758: Edward Gibbon, Essai sur l'étude de la littérature
• 1758: Elizabeth Carter, translation of Epictetus
• 1758: England begins its political (as opposed to merely economic) domination of India
• 1758: Halley's comet does indeed return as predicted and was sighted on Christmas day
• 1758: Horace Walpole, Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors
• 1758: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles
• 1758: July: Louisbourg is taken
• 1758: Lord Kames, Historical Law Tracts
• 1758: Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary 1794
• 1758: Samuel Johnson begins publishing The Idler (through 1760)
• 1758: The Principle of achromatic refractor introduced by John Dollond english optician
• 1758: William Boyce appointed organist at the Chapel Royal
• 1759: 14 April: Death of George Freederick Händel (or Handel)
• 1759: The Modern Universal History (through 1766)
• 1759: Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• 1759: August: The Battle of Minden
• 1759: Birth of Friedrich Schiller, German poet and dramatist
• 1759: Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1759: Birth of Robert Burns
• 1759: Christopher Smart committed to a private madhouse
• 1759: Death of Sarah Johnson, mother of Samuel Johnson
• 1759: Death of William Collins
• 1759: Eddystone Lighthouse rebuilt after being destroyed in a storm
• 1759: Edmund Burke founds The Annual Register
• 1759: Edward Gibbon becomes a captain in the militia
• 1759: Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition
• 1759: England begins earnest canal building projects this year
• 1759: Expulsion of Jesuits from Brazil
• 1759: Fear of a French invasion of Britain are high
• 1759: Gerard, An Essay on Taste
• 1759: Hurd, Moral and Political Dialogues
• 1759: Jesuits expelled from Brazil
• 1759: Laurence Sterne, A Political Romance
• 1759: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. 1
• 1759: Lessing, Letters on Literature (published through 1765)
• 1759: Macklin, Love à la Mode
• 1759: November: The English defeat the French army at Lagos and Quiberon Bay
• 1759: Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning, The Bee
• 1759: Robertson, The History of Scotland
• 1759: Samuel Johnson's moral tale Rasselas
• 1759: Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Introduction to The World Displayed
• 1759: Sarah Fielding, The Countess of Dellwyn
• 1759: Scottish poet, Robert Burns 1796
• 1759: September: The British take Quebec in the Siege of Quebec
• 1759: The Bavarian Academy of Science is founded in Germany
• 1759: The British Museum opens
• 1759: Thomas Arne granted an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Oxford
• 1759: Voltaire, Candide
• 1759: William Pitt the Younger, British statesman 1794
• 1760: 25 October: George II of England dies and is succeeded by George III
• 1760: Benjamin West travels to Italy
• 1760: Birth of William Beckford
• 1760: Britain takes Montreal
• 1760: Bute is part of the new king's cabinet
• 1760: Colman, Polly Honeycombe
• 1760: Denis Diderot, La Religieuse (The Nun)
• 1760: George Murphy, The Way to Keep Him
• 1760: James Macpherson, Fragments of Ancient Poetry, begins the interest in Ossian
• 1760: January 2: Goldsmith begins The Citizen of the World (The Chinese Letters) (through 1761)
• 1760: Johnstone, Chrysal
• 1760: Joiah Wedgwood founds his pottery works in England
• 1760: Joseph Merlin introduces roller skates for first time suffering great bodily harm to himself
• 1760: Lambert ivnents photometry
• 1760: Laurence Sterne made vicar of Coxwold and publishes Sermons of Yorick
• 1760: Lloyd, The Actor
• 1760: Lyttelton, Dialogues of the Dead
• 1760: October: Death of George II
• 1760: Pennsylvania's Conestoga wagon introduced by Dutch settlers. (Year1753 also given for the origin)
• 1760: Richard Wilson exhibits his works at the Society of Artists (through 1768)
• 1760: Samuel Foote, The Minor
• 1760: Samuel Johnson stops publishing The Idler
• 1760: Samuel Johnson, "The Bravery of English Common Soldiers"; review of Tytler's Inquiry into Mary, Queen of Scots
• 1760: Sarah Fielding, Ophelia
• 1760: Shebbeare, History of the Sumatrans
• 1760: Thomas Arne, Thomas and Sally
• 1760: Thomas Braidwood opens the first British school for the deaf and mute
• 1760: Tobias Smollett imprisoned for libel
• 1760: Tobias Smollett, Sir Launcelot Greaves (through 1761)
• 1761: Birth of Marguerite Gerard, French painter
• 1761: Churchill, The Rosciad
• 1761: Copper sheeting is used for the first time on British Frigate "Alarm"
• 1761: Death of Cawthorn
• 1761: Death of Oldys
• 1761: Death of Samuel Richardson
• 1761: Death of William Law
• 1761: France begins peace negotiations with Britain
• 1761: Frances Sheridan, Sidney Bidulph
• 1761: George Murphy, All in the Wrong
• 1761: Hawkesworth, Almoran and Hamet
• 1761: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloise
• 1761: Liverpool linked with Leeds with the opening of the Bridgewater Canal
• 1761: Liverpool linked with Leeds with the opening of the Bridgewater Canal
• 1761: March: Bute becomes Secretary of State
• 1761: Mikhail Lomonosov of Russia discovers the atmosphere of Venus
• 1761: October: Pitt resigns over the war with Spain
• 1761: Russian, Mikhail Lomonosov observes the atmosphere of Venus for the first time
• 1761: The British take Pondicherry in India
• 1761: The first French veterinary school opens in Lyons
• 1762: Birth of Bowles
• 1762: Birth of Cobbett
• 1762: Birth of Joanna Baillie
• 1762: Birth of Susanna Haswell Rowson, novelist and playwright
• 1762: Britain occupies Manila, the Philippines (through 1763)
• 1762: Bute becomes Lord Treasurer
• 1762: Charles Jenkinson becomes Bute's private secretary
• 1762: Charles Macklin, The True-Born Irishman; or, The Irish Fine Lady
• 1762: Charlotte Lennox, Sophia
• 1762: Churchill, Night; The Ghost, vols. 1-2
• 1762: Dashwood becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1762: Death of Bubb Dodington
• 1762: Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• 1762: Death of Louis-François Roubiliac, sculptor
• 1762: Death of Stephan Hales, English scientist
• 1762: Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew)
• 1762: Diego de Silan leads a rebellion in Ilocos Province, the Philippines
• 1762: G. Campbell, Dissertation on Miracles
• 1762: George IV, Prince Regent and King of Great Britain 1830
• 1762: George Romney settles in London
• 1762: Grenville and Egremont become Secretaries of State
• 1762: Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (through 1771)
• 1762: Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance
• 1762: James Bradley releases an expanded star catalog containing 60,000 stars
• 1762: James Macpherson (Ossian), Fingal
• 1762: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, ou traité de L'Education
• 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
• 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
• 1762: Johann Christian Bach settles in England
• 1762: Johann Zoffany exhibits his work at the Society of Artists (through 1769)
• 1762: July: Samuel Johnson receives an annual pension of three hundred pounds
• 1762: Laurence Sterne travels to France and Italy
• 1762: Lord Kames, Elements of Criticism
• 1762: Louis XV builds Le Petit Trianon for Madame DuBarry, his mistress
• 1762: Marc Plenciz is the first to describe microorganisms as "germs"
• 1762: May: Newcastle resigns as Lord Treasurer
• 1762: Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Nash
• 1762: Rousseau, Du contract social
• 1762: Samuel Foote, The Lyar
• 1762: Thomas Arne, Artaxerxes
• 1762: Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker's Director
• 1762: W. Whitehead, The School for Lovers
• 1762: William Ince and John Mayhew, The Universal System of Household Furniture
• 1762: William Warburton, The Doctrine of Grace
• 1763: Benjamin West travels to England
• 1763: Birth of Charles XIV, King of Sweden
• 1763: Birth of Rogers
• 1763: Blair, A Critical Dissertation on Ossian
• 1763: Charles Churchill The Ghost Book II
• 1763: Christopher Smart released from a madhouse, and publishes A Song to David
• 1763: Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine
• 1763: Death of William Shenstone
• 1763: Edward Gibbon ends his tenure as a captain in the militia
• 1763: Egremong and Halifax become Secretaries of State
• 1763: February: The Peace of Paris with France gives back everything Pitt fought to obtain
• 1763: Frances Brooke, Lady Julia Mandeville
• 1763: Frances Sheridan, The Discovery, at Drury Lane
• 1763: G. Colman, Sr., The Deuce is in Him
• 1763: George Murphy, The Citizen
• 1763: Giuseppi Parini's poem, Il Mattino
• 1763: J. Brown, A Dissertation on Poetry and Music
• 1763: James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson
• 1763: James Boswell sets out on his tour of the Continent and meets Voltaire and Rousseau
• 1763: James Macpherson (Ossian), Temora
• 1763: Johann Christian Bach appointed music master to the Queen
• 1763: Johann Christian Bach, Orione
• 1763: John Wilkes is imprisoned in the Tower for his article in the North Briton 45; Lord Camden sides with Wilkes and outlaws "general warrants," instruments of arbitrary imprisonment
• 1763: La Madeleine is completed in Paris
• 1763: Mason, Elegies
• 1763: May: Bute resigns as Lord Treasurer; he is replaced by Grenville
• 1763: Nevil Maskelyne's "The British Mariner's Guide" revolutionizes navigation using lunar distances to calcualte longitude
• 1763: Peace of Paris between France, Spain, England & Portugal
• 1763: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Dupe, at Drury Lane
• 1763: Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garret
• 1763: Samuel Johnson, "On the Life and Writings of Collins"
• 1763: The British restore Sultan Muhammad Alimudin to the throne in the Philippines
• 1763: Thornton, Ode on St. Caecilia's Day
• 1764: 4'8" or Standard gauge used for rail for the first time in England
• 1764: Birth of Ann Radcliffe
• 1764: Birth of Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor
• 1764: Black measures latent heat
• 1764: Britain passes the Sugar Act, causing widespread discontent in the American colonies, especially Rhode Island
• 1764: Britain's Sugar Act
• 1764: Charles Macklin, The True-born Scotsman
• 1764: Churchill, The Candidate
• 1764: Death of Churchill
• 1764: Death of Robert Dodsley
• 1764: Death of Robert Lloyd
• 1764: Death of William Hogarth
• 1764: E. Evans, Specimens of the Ancient Welsh Bards
• 1764: Edward Gibbon travels to Italy, where he first conceives The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• 1764: George Murphy, What We Must All Come To
• 1764: Grainger, Sugar-Cane
• 1764: Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality (through 1770)
• 1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinnying-jenny
• 1764: John Wilkes is arrested over his contribution to The North Briton; he is released by Chief Justice Pratt, but expelled from Commons
• 1764: Johnson, Gibbon, Goldsmith and others found London's Literary Club
• 1764: Laurence Sterne returns to England
• 1764: London begins the practice of assigning house numbers
• 1764: Oliver Goldsmith, The History of England, in a Series of Letters
• 1764: Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, with several lines by Samuel Johnson
• 1764: Reid, Enquiry into the Human Mind
• 1764: Ridley, Tales of the Genii
• 1764: Samuel Foote, The Patron
• 1764: Samuel Johnson founds The Club
• 1764: Suppression of Jesuits in France
• 1764: Suppression of Jesuits in France
• 1764: Three tiered road marking invented by Pierre Tresaguet in France
• 1764: Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique
• 1765: Beattie, The Judgment of Paris
• 1765: Birth of Eli Whitney, American inventor
• 1765: Birth of Robert Fulton, American engineer
• 1765: Birth of Sir James Mackintosh
• 1765: Birth of William IV, King of Great Britain
• 1765: Britains's Stamp Act
• 1765: Death of Edward Young
• 1765: Death of Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer
• 1765: Death of Mallet
• 1765: Death of Ridley
• 1765: Edmund Burke becomes private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and an MP
• 1765: France's Loire and Rhone rivers are connected by a new canal
• 1765: France's Loire and Rhone rivers are connected by a new canal
• 1765: Grafton becomes Secretary of State
• 1765: Grenville is dismissed as Lord Treasurer, and is replaced by Rockingham
• 1765: Horace Walpole's Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto
• 1765: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, widely considered the first Gothic novel
• 1765: James Watt invents the condenser, later incorporated into his steam engine
• 1765: Johann Christian Bach begins the Bach-Abel concert series (through 1781)
• 1765: Laurence Sterne again travels to the Continent
• 1765: Lazzaro Spallanzani discovers hermetic sealing as a means of preserving food
• 1765: March: Parliament passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonists
• 1765: Newcastle becomes Lord of the Privy Seal
• 1765: Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
• 1765: Samuel Johnson meets Henry and Hester Thrale
• 1765: Samuel Johnson, The Works of William Shakespeare
• 1765: The Lunar Society is founded in Birmingham, England
• 1765: William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (through 1769)
• 1766: Anstey, The New Bath Guide
• 1766: Birth of John Dalton
• 1766: Camden becomes Lord Chancellor
• 1766: Charles Townshend becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1766: Charlotte Lennox, The History of Eliza
• 1766: Christopher Martin Wieland, The Story of Agathon
• 1766: Death of Frances Sheridan
• 1766: Death of Grainger
• 1766: Death of J. Brown
• 1766: Death of Stanislas Leszcznski, King of Poland
• 1766: English physicist, John Dalton 01844
• 1766: G. Colman, Sr., and David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage
• 1766: George Stubbs, The Anatomy of the Horse
• 1766: Henry Cavendish, an English chemist, studies the effect of lightning on soil and duplicates the process to produce nitrogen; he discovers that it is lighter thanair
• 1766: Jean-Jacques Rousseau travels in England
• 1766: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
• 1766: July: Rockingham is dismissed as Lord Treasurer, replaced by Grafton
• 1766: Laurence Sterne returns from the Continent
• 1766: Laurence Sterne, Sermons
• 1766: Lessing, Laokoon
• 1766: Lessing, Laokoon
• 1766: March: The Stamp Act is repealed, but Parliament affirms its right to tax the American colonies
• 1766: Oliver Goldsmith's novel, The Vicar of Wakefield
• 1766: Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
• 1766: Pitt becomes Lord of the Privy Seal
• 1766: Repeal of Britain's Stamp Act in Britain
• 1766: Rising bread prices lead to riots
• 1766: Samuel Johnson and William Chambers work on the Vinerian law lectures
• 1766: Shelburne becomes Secretary of State
• 1766: The British occupy the Falkland Islands
• 1766: Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy
• 1767: Birth of Maria Edgeworth
• 1767: David Garrick, Peep Behind the Curtain
• 1767: Death of Paltock
• 1767: Duff, Essay on Original Genius
• 1767: Expulsion of Jesuits from Spanish American
• 1767: Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
• 1767: Frances Sheridan, The History of Nourjahad (posthumous)
• 1767: George Murphy, The School for Guardians
• 1767: Grafton becomes Lord Treasurer
• 1767: Jago, Edge-Hill
• 1767: Jesuits expelled from Spanish America
• 1767: Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Electricity
• 1767: Laurence Sterne falls in love with Elizabeth Draper, to whom the posthumous Journal to Eliza is addressed
• 1767: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. 9
• 1767: Lyttelton, The History of Henry II
• 1767: North becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1767: Parliament investigates the East India Company
• 1767: Richard Farmer, Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare
• 1767: Shelburne becomes Secretary of State
• 1767: Townshend taxes the American colonists
• 1767: W. J. Mickle, The Concubine
• 1767: Wood, Essay on the Original Genius of Homer
• 1768: A. Dow, Tales form the Persian of Inatulla
• 1768: Arthur Young, Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties
• 1768: Austria renounces all claims to Silesia
• 1768: Austria renounces its claims on Silesia
• 1768: Birth of Bertel Thorwaldsen, Danish sculptor
• 1768: Birth of Jean Fourier, French mathematician
• 1768: Birth of Marie Guillemine Benoist, French painter
• 1768: Capell's edition of Shakespeare
• 1768: Corsica is ceded to the French
• 1768: Corsica is purchased by France fro Genoa
• 1768: Death of Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
• 1768: Death of Joseph Spence
• 1768: Death of Laurence Sterne
• 1768: Death of Sarah Fielding
• 1768: Death of Thornton
• 1768: France purchases Corsica from Genoa
• 1768: G. Stuart, A Historical Dissertation concerning the Antiquity of the English Constitution
• 1768: George Murphy, Zenobia
• 1768: Jacques Ange Gabriel completes Le Petit Trianon at Versailles
• 1768: James Boswell, An Account of Corsica
• 1768: Jesuits are expelled from the Philippines
• 1768: Joseph Priestley first develops the techniques of carbonating water
• 1768: Joseph Wright, "Experiment with the Air Pump"
• 1768: Joshua Reynolds founds, and is elected president of, the Royal Academy; other founding members include Paul Sandby, Benjamin West, and Richard Wilson
• 1768: Junius's letters to the king
• 1768: Kelly, False Delicacy
• 1768: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
• 1768: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
• 1768: Liverpool conversation club debates the merits of secret ballots
• 1768: Neuilly's bridge over the river Seine
• 1768: Neuilly's bridge over the river Seine
• 1768: Oliver Goldsmith, The Good Natur'd Man
• 1768: Oliver Goldsmith, The Good Natured Man
• 1768: Painter Benjamin West receives the patronage of George III
• 1768: Samuel Foote, The Devil upon Two Sticks
• 1768: Samuel Hearne begins a two-year walking tour from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean, searching for the Northwest Passage
• 1768: Samuel Johnson helps Henry Thrale with his campaign
• 1768: The Royal Academy is founded
• 1768: Thomas Gray appointed professor of modern history at Cambridge; publishes Poems
• 1768: Wilkes is elected to Parliament (representing Middlesex) on his return from France but is then expelled by the government and sentenced for libel
• 1768: Wilkes, English Liberty (through 1770)
• 1769: Arthur Young, Six Months' Tour through the North of England
• 1769: August: Birth of Napoleon
• 1769: Birth of Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist
• 1769: Birth of Thomas Lawrence, English painter
• 1769: Cumberland, The Brothers
• 1769: Denis Diderot begins Le Paradoxe sur le comedien (not published until 1830)
• 1769: Earliest known steam powered vehicle invented by Nicolas Cugnot
• 1769: Frances Brooke, Emily Montague
• 1769: Herd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs
• 1769: Home, The Fatal Discovery
• 1769: James Watt patents his steam engine
• 1769: Johann Zoffany arrives in London and begins working with David Garrick on theatrical conversation pieces
• 1769: John Wilkes is expelled by Commons, and is thrice re-elected by Middlesex, but the House again rejects him
• 1769: Joseph Wright of Derby works as a portrait painter in Liverpool (through 1771)
• 1769: Josiah Wedgwood, potter, opens his new works in Etruria, Staffordshire
• 1769: Nicolas Cugnot invents the three-wheel steam carriage for use on the roads
• 1769: Oliver Goldsmith, Roman History
• 1769: Robertson, The History of Charles V
• 1769: Shakespeare Jubilee celebration at Stratford-on-Avon
• 1769: Sir Joshua Reynolds begins his Discourses (continued through 1790)
• 1769: Sir Joshua Reynolds is knighted
• 1769: Steam engine condenser patented by James Watt
• 1769: The French defeat Paoli in Corsica
• 1769: The Gulf Stream is charted by Benjamin Franklin which makes navigation easier
• 1769: Thomas Chatterton, "Elinoure and Juga"
• 1769: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello built
• 1769: Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of an Atom
• 1769: Transit of Venus observed by many different observatories
• 1769: William Boyce's deafness forces him to give up his musical duties
• 1770: Beattie, An Essay on Truth
• 1770: Birth of Friedrich Höderlin, German poet
• 1770: Birth of James Hogg, Scottish writer
• 1770: Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
• 1770: Birth of Thomas Seebeck, Russian-German physicist
• 1770: Birth of William Wordsworth, English poet (April)
• 1770: Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents
• 1770: D'Holbach, Systeme de la nature
• 1770: Dauphin of France marries Marie Antoinette
• 1770: Death of Akenside
• 1770: Death of Charles Avison, composer
• 1770: Death of French painter, François Boucher
• 1770: Death of George Whitefield
• 1770: Death of Guthrie
• 1770: Death of John Michael Rysbrack, sculptor
• 1770: Death of Jortin
• 1770: Death of Thomas Chatterton, forger and poet, by suicide
• 1770: Ferguson, Institutes of Moral Philosophy
• 1770: Goethe completes the first part of Faust
• 1770: Grafton resigns as Lord Treasurer, and is replaced by North (January)
• 1770: Jesse Ramden invents the screw-cutting lathe
• 1770: Kelly, A Word to the Wise
• 1770: Marriage of the Dauphin of France (later Louix XVI) to Marie Antoinette
• 1770: Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, with several lines by Samuel Johnson
• 1770: Oliver Goldsmith, The Life of Parnell
• 1770: Parliament passes Grenville's act on contested elections
• 1770: Paul Henri Dietrick d'Holbach publishes Système de la nature, denying any cosmic plan in nature
• 1770: Samuel Foote, The Tame Lover
• 1770: Samuel Johnson, The False Alarm, on the Wilkes affair
• 1770: Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, Ancient Scottish Poems
• 1770: The Boston Massacre: British troops fire on citizens of Boston
• 1770: The Spanish occupy Falkland's Islands
• 1770: The printers and publishers of the letters of "Junius" are tried for seditious libel
• 1771: Benjamin West, The Death of Wolfe
• 1771: Birth of Aloys Senefelder, German inventor
• 1771: Birth of Dorothy Wordsworth (December)
• 1771: Birth of Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor
• 1771: Birth of Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist
• 1771: Death of Christopher Smart
• 1771: Death of Thomas Gray
• 1771: Death of Tobias Smollett
• 1771: Friedrich Klopstock, Odes
• 1771: Luigi Galvani of Italy produces current electricity
• 1771: March: Samuel Johnson, Thoughts on Falkland's Islands
• 1771: The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
• 1771: Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker
• 1771: Warren Hastings made Governor of Bengal
• 1772: Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1772: Birth of William Congreve, British inventor
• 1772: Diderot publishes the last volumes of the Encyclopédie
• 1772: First Partition of Poland
• 1772: Herder, On the Origin of Language
• 1772: Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins writing Dialogues: Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques
• 1772: Johann Zoffany travels to Italy (through 1778)
• 1772: Joseph Priestley and Daniel Rutgerford discover nitrogen independently
• 1772: Poland's First Partition
• 1772: September 4: Elizabeth Inchbald's debut in Shakespeare's King Lear, as Cordelia to her husband Joseph Inchbald's Lear
• 1772: Thomas Rowlandson studies painting at the Royal Academy
• 1772: William Blake apprenticed to James Basire
• 1772: William Murray, Britain's Lord Chief Justice, rules in the Somersett case that "as soon as any slave sets foot in England he becomes free."
• 1773: Birth of Louis Philippe, King of France
• 1773: Birth of Thomas Young, English physicist
• 1773: Captain Cook is the first to cross the Antarctic Circle (January)
• 1773: December: The Boston Tea Party in America
• 1773: George Romney travels in Italy (until 1775)
• 1773: March: Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
• 1773: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell make their tour of the Hebrides
• 1773: The Regulating Act of Lord North regulates the East India Company's powers and institutes a system of dual control of India
• 1773: The first cast-iron bridge is built in Shropshire, England
• 1773: Venice's Palazzo Grassi completed; designed by the late Giorgio Massari
• 1773: William Blake, "Joseph of Arimathea" (his earliest picture)
• 1774: A general election in Britain (November)
• 1774: Death of Louis XV of France (May)
• 1774: Death of Oliver Goldsmith
• 1774: Edward Gibbon becomes an MP
• 1774: English poet laureate and biographer, Robert Southey 1843
• 1774: F. A> Mesmer of Austria first uses hypnosis as a medical treatment
• 1774: J. G. Gahn isolates magnesium
• 1774: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Sorrows of Werther
• 1774: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
• 1774: Joseph Priestley and Karl Scheele independently discover oxygen
• 1774: Joseph Wright of Derby visits Italy (through 1775) and sees the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
• 1774: Lord Chesterfield's etiquette for men, Letters to His Son
• 1774: Samuel Johnson and the Thrales travel to North Wales
• 1774: Samuel Johnson, The Patriot, against John Wilkes (November)
• 1774: The British Parliament passes the Quebec Act
• 1774: The First Continental Congress in Philadelphia
• 1774: The port of Boston is closed
• 1774: Thomas Rowlandson visits France
• 1774: Warren Hastings becomes the first Governor General of India
• 1775: April 19: American Revolution begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord
• 1775: Birth of André Ampère, French physicist
• 1775: Birth of Constance Mayer, French painter
• 1775: Birth of Jane Austen, English novelist
• 1775: Birth of William Turner, English painter
• 1775: Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries for N.American conflict
• 1775: Daniel Boone begins clearing the Wilderness Road into Kentucky
• 1775: Death of John Baskerville, painter and typefounder
• 1775: English architect, John Wood the Younger completes Bath's Royal Crescent
• 1775: Girard invents the first water turbine
• 1775: Johann Kaspar Lavater, first part of Physiognomische Fragmente, inaugurates the pseudo-science of physiognomy
• 1775: Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
• 1775: Joseph Priestley, Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind
• 1775: Joseph Wright of Derby works as a portrait painter in Bath (through 1776)
• 1775: June: The Battle of Bunker Hill
• 1775: Karl Scheele discovers chlorine
• 1775: March: Burke speaks on conciliation with America in Parliament
• 1775: Pierre-Simon Girard invents the water turbine
• 1775: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, opens at Covent Garden
• 1775: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals, opens at Covent Garden
• 1775: Samuel Johnson and Henry and Hester Thrale travel to France
• 1775: Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (January)
• 1775: Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
• 1775: The water closet if patented by Alexander Cummings
• 1775: William Withering of England is the first to use digitalis as a diuretic
• 1776: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
• 1776: Birth of John Constable, English painter
• 1776: David Garrick retires
• 1776: Death of Francis Hayman, painter
• 1776: Denmark and Russia enter into the Treaty of Copenhagen
• 1776: Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1
• 1776: First commercial steam engines produced by James Watt
• 1776: First submarine used in warfare built by David Bushnell in Connecticut
• 1776: France and Spain expel the Jesuits
• 1776: Jesuits expelled from France and Spain
• 1776: July 4: American Declaration of Independence
• 1776: March: The British leave Boston
• 1776: May: Samuel Johnson has dinner with John Wilkes
• 1776: Patrick Ferguson of Britain desings the breech-loading rifle, an advance on muskets
• 1776: Richard Brinsley Sheridan becomes the manager of Drury Lane theater
• 1776: Thomas Paine, Common Sense
• 1776: Thomas Paine, The Crisis
• 1776: Treaty of Copenhagen between Denmark and Russia
• 1777: American Revolution
• 1777: Birth of Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
• 1777: Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
• 1777: Charles Augustin de Coulomb invents the torsion balance
• 1777: David Bushnell of America invents the torpedo
• 1777: Lavoisier demonstrates that air is made up mostly of oxygen and nitrogen
• 1777: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, opens at Drury Lane
• 1777: Samuel Johnson begins writing The Lives of the Poets and corresponds with Dodd
• 1777: First bridge at Ironbridge in Shropshire, England, constructed by Abram Darby.
• 1777: Ansty Brewery (now Badger Brewery) in Dorset, England, founded with one of the oldest trademarks registered.
• 1777: Lodge of the Nine Muses no. 235, York Lodge no. 236, and Indefatigable Lodge no. 237 (in Swansea) Masonic Lodges founded under the English constitution, and still working.
• 1777: Birth of Oersted (died 1851).
• 1777: Birth of Friedrich Karl Gauss (died 1855).
• 1778: Alliance between United States and France
• 1778: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lessons for Children
• 1778: Birth of Humphry Davy, English chemist
• 1778: Death of Carolus Linnaeus
• 1778: Death of Chatham
• 1778: Death of Thomas Arne, composer
• 1778: Death of Voltaire
• 1778: Fanny Burney's novel, Evelina
• 1778: France declares war on Britain over America
• 1778: Frances Burney, Evelina
• 1778: Franz Anton Mesmer exhibits his ability to cure ailments with "animal magnetism"
• 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Reveries du promeneur solitaire
• 1778: Joseph Wright of Derby exhibits his works at the Royal Academy (through 1794)
• 1778: Sir Joseph Banks elected president of the Royal Society
• 1778: William Shaw, An Analysis of the Gaelic Language
• 1779: 8 October: William Blake begins studying at the Royal Academy
• 1779: Death of Captain James Cook
• 1779: Death of David Garrick
• 1779: Death of Thomas Chippendale, cabinetmaker
• 1779: Death of William Boyce, composer
• 1779: John Stanley appointed Master of the King's Band
• 1779: Lazzaro Spallanzani explores the biology of reproduction, and discovers that semen is necessary for fertilization
• 1779: Lilenthal, Germany is the home of Johann Schroter's private observatory
• 1779: London opens its first children's hospital
• 1779: Richard Brinsley Sheridan becomes sole proprietor of Drury Lane, where he produces The Critic
• 1779: Samuel Johnson begins publishing The Lives of the Poets (Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets)
• 1779: Spain declares war on Britain, and tries unsuccessfully to capture Gibraltar
• 1779: Spain declares war on England; unsuccessful siege of Gibraltar
• 1779: William Cowper, Olney Hymns
• 1780: 2-8 June: The Gordon Riots follow upon Parliament's passage of a Roman Catholic relief measure
• 1780: Birth of Edward Hicks, American painter
• 1780: Birth of Jean Auguste Ingres, French painter
• 1780: Britain declares war on Holland
• 1780: Dunning introduces a motion in Parliament on the increase of the power of the Crown (against George III)
• 1780: England declares war on Holland
• 1780: Frederick the Great, On German Literature
• 1780: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human Race
• 1780: Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary
• 1780: Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary
• 1780: Lazzaro Spallanzani develops the techniques of the artificial insemination of dogs
• 1780: Lord Shelburne gathers together the Bowood circle, including Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, and Jeremy Bentham
• 1780: Richard Brinsley Sheridan becomes an MP
• 1780: The American Academy of Sciences is founded in Boston
• 1780: The English Reform Movement: Major Cartwright founds the radical Society for Constitutional Information, advocating suffrage of poor men
• 1780: William Blake and his companions on a sketching trip are arrested for being French spies
• 1781: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose for Children
• 1781: Astronomer Frederick William Herschel discovers Uranus
• 1781: Birth of George Seephenson, English engineer
• 1781: Charles Messier publishes his work on nebulae and clusters
• 1781: Edward Gibbon, second instalment of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• 1781: Friedrich Schiller, Die Rauber
• 1781: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
• 1781: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
• 1781: October: Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
• 1781: Richard Wilson retires to Wales
• 1781: Samuel Johnson finishes publishing The Lives of the Poets (Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets)
• 1781: William Herschel discovers Uranus
• 1781: World's first iron bridge built in Shropshire, England
• 1782: 1983 Johann von Herder, The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry
• 1782: 30 November: End of American War of Independence
• 1782: Burke becomes Paymaster General
• 1782: Death of John Wood the Younger, architect
• 1782: Death of Richard Wilson, painter
• 1782: Fox and Shelburne become Secretaries of State, but quarrel over peace negotiations
• 1782: Frances Burney, Cecelia
• 1782: Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited
• 1782: Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief
• 1782: Henry Grattan's Parliament
• 1782: James Watt invents the double-acting rotary steam engine
• 1782: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (posthumous)
• 1782: July: Death of Rockingham
• 1782: March: North resigns, and Rockingham becomes Lord Treasurer; on Rockingham's death, Shelburne becomes Lord Treasurer
• 1782: Pierre de Laclos'novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• 1782: Rousseau, Confessions
• 1782: Royal Irish Academy established
• 1782: Sir William Chambers, architect, becomes head of the Office of Works
• 1782: The last witch-burning in Europe, in Kanton Glarus, Switzerland.
• 1782: The nearly windowless Newgate Prison is completed by architect George Dance
• 1782: Thomas Townshend becomes Secretary of State
• 1782: William Cowper, Poems
• 1782: William Cowper, Poems
• 1782: William Pitt becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1783: 15 August: Duke of Richmond's letter to Sharman (a blueprint for parliamentary reform)
• 1783: 3 September: Treaty of Versailles ends the American Revolution
• 1783: Birth of Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary
• 1783: Birth of Stendahl (Henri Beyle), French novelist
• 1783: Birth of Washington Irving, American writer
• 1783: British Quakers petition against the slave trade
• 1783: Crimea is lost to Potemkin and incorporated into Russia
• 1783: Death of Lancelot "Capability" Brown, landscape architect
• 1783: Fall of Fox-North Coalition in Britain; they are dismissed (18 December)
• 1783: Fox-North Coalition formed under Duke of Portland, defeating Sehlburne in Commons; Fox and North become Secretaries of State (2 April)
• 1783: French brothers Monrgolfier launch piloted hot air balloon
• 1783: George Crabbe, The Village
• 1783: Johann Gottfried von Herder, Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
• 1783: Johann Zoffany travels to India (through 1789)
• 1783: Lords defeats Fox's India Bill
• 1783: Luigi Galvani develops the first electric cell from two strips of metal and the fluids from a dissected frog, and determines the energy must proceed from the frog
• 1783: Peace of Versailles between France, England, Spain, and United States
• 1783: Potemkin captures the Crimea for Russia
• 1783: Sheridan becomes Secretary to the Treasury
• 1783: The Brothers Montgolfier of France launch the first manned hot-air balloon
• 1783: Thurlow becomes Lord Chancellor
• 1783: Townshend becomes Home Secretary
• 1783: William Blake, Poetical Sketches
• 1783: William Blake, Poetical Sketches
• 1783: William Godwin meets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt
• 1783: William Pitt the younger becomes Lord Treasurer of Britain (19 December)
• 1784: 13 December: Death of Samuel Johnson
• 1784: 91 Herder, Ideas toward a Philosophy of a History of Mankind
• 1784: Antoine Lavoisier studies the role of oxygen and carbon dioxide in respiration
• 1784: April: Fox's supporters defeated in the general election; Pitt becomes Prime Minister
• 1784: Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, German astronomer
• 1784: Birth of Zachary Taylor, American President
• 1784: Death of Allan Ramsay, painter
• 1784: Henry Cavendish, Experiments on Air
• 1784: Thomas Rowlandson, watercolor of Vauxhall Gardens
• 1784: William Blake, An Island in the Moon
• 1784: William Pitt's India Act gives the Crown the power to guide Indian politics
• 1785: Birth of Jakob Grimm, German folklorist
• 1785: Claude Berthollet discovers that chlorine can be used to bleach clothing
• 1785: Cowper, The Task and John Gilpin
• 1785: Della Crusca (Robert Merry), The Florence Miscellany
• 1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
• 1785: Horace Walpole, Essay on Modern Gardening
• 1785: James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
• 1785: John Jeffries makes the first aerial crossing of the English Channel
• 1785: Sir William Jones, "A Hymn to Na'ra'yena"
• 1785: The Real Compañia de Filipinas is founded in the Philippines
• 1785: The Treaty of Fontainbleu repeals the Barrier Treaty of 1715
• 1785: The first balloon crossing of the English channel
• 1785: Treaty of Fontainbleu; repeals Barrier Treaty of 1715
• 1785: Warren Hastings returns from India to England; Governors-General Cornwallis and Wellesley take over
• 1785: William Cowper, The Task
• 1785: William Pitt introduces Bill for Parliamentary reform
• 1786: Architect Sir William Chambers completes Somerset House in London
• 1786: Birth of Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
• 1786: Death of John Stanley, composer
• 1786: Ezekial Reed of America invents the nail-making machine
• 1786: Johann Masä;us' fairy tales, Volksmä;rchen der Deutschen
• 1786: John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery exhibits pictures of actors performing in Shakespeare's plays through 1787
• 1786: Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
• 1786: Robert Burns' Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
• 1786: Shays's Rebellion, Massachusetts, December 1786-January 1787
• 1786: Two French mountaineers, Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard, are the first to scale Mont Blanc.
• 1786: William Beckford publishes Vathek.
• 1786: William Beckford, An Arabian Tale
• 1786: Willilam Herschel leads the field with first accurate physical description of Galaxy
• 1787: 92 Catherine the Great leads Russia with Austria in war against Turkey
• 1787: Birth of Georg Ohm, German physicist
• 1787: Death of Robert Blake (February)
• 1787: Edmund Burke takes a leading role in the trial to impeach Warren Hastings; Richard Brinsley Sheridan makes a famous speech against Hastings
• 1787: First steam boat is launched on the Deleware River by John Fitch
• 1787: French physicist Jacques Charles launches the first hyrdogen balloon
• 1787: James Rumsey designs the first mechanically driven boat
• 1787: October: James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers begin
• 1787: Russia and Austria, under Catherine the Great, declare war on Turkey (through 1792)
• 1787: Signing of the Constitution of the United States
• 1787: The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded
• 1787: The U.S. Constitution is ratified by Delaware (the first state to do so), Pennsylvania (second), and New Jersey (third)
• 1787: The first steam roller is built by L.A.de Lessart
• 1787: The same year a steam boat is introduced on the Potomac River by inventor James Rumsey
• 1787: William Wilberforce agitates against slavery in the British colonies
• 1787: First amendment to the 1737 Stage Licensing Act, restoring rights of local authorities to license theatres.
• 1788: 90 Russia's at war with Sweden
• 1788: A (never enforced) law requires that chimney sweepers be at least eight years old
• 1788: Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade
• 1788: April: New Yorkers riot for three days, accusing physicians of grave-robbing.
• 1788: Birth of George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet
• 1788: Birth of Lord Byron
• 1788: British penal colony opened in Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1788: Charlotte Smith, Emmeline
• 1788: Death of James "Athenian" Stuart, architect
• 1788: Edward Gibbon, the third instalment of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• 1788: February: George III recovers, protecting Pitt's ministry
• 1788: First practical steamship built by Scottish engineer William Symington
• 1788: J. H. B. de Saint Pierre, Paul et Virginie
• 1788: James Hutton of England, New Theory of the Earth
• 1788: Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
• 1788: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, a Fiction and Original Stories from Real Life
• 1788: November: The Regency Crisis arises from George III's mental illness
• 1788: Russia at war with Sweden (through 1790)
• 1788: Sugar prices begin to rise
• 1788: Susanna Rowson, A Trip to Parnassus
• 1788: Susanna Rowson, Poems on Various Subjects
• 1788: Susanna Rowson, The Inquisitor
• 1788: The Dolben Act, the first act to regulate the slave trade
• 1788: The U.S. Constitution is ratified by Georgia (the fourth state to do so), Connecticut (fifth), Massachussets (sixth), Maryland (seventh), South Carolina (eighth), New Hampshire (ninth), Virginia (tenth), New York (eleventh). On New Hampshire's ratification, the Constitution was officially adopted.
• 1788: Warren Hastings impeached in a seven-year trial, leading ultimately to Hastings's acquittal
• 1788: William Blake invents "relief etching" in All Religions Are One and There is No Natural Religion
• 1788: William Blake, Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms
• 1789: 14 July: The storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution
• 1789: 20 June: The oath of the Jeu de Paume (the Tennis Court where the National Assembly is now meeting); they resolve not to adjourn until they have established a constitution for the kingdom
• 1789: 22 June: The clergy joins the Third Estate
• 1789: 4 August: Most feudal rights are abolished by the National Assembly
• 1789: 4 November: Richard Price gives his sermon "A Discourse on the Love of Our Country" at a meeting of the London Revolution Society
• 1789: 5-6 October: "October days": Parisian women, unable to get bread, march to Versailles and bring the royal family back to Paris
• 1789: Abolition of French feudal system, Declaration of Rights of Man, nationalization of church property begins
• 1789: After agreeing to the first twelve amendments, North Carolina ratifies the U.S. Constitution, becoming the twelfth state to do so
• 1789: Ann Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlyn and Dunbane
• 1789: Antoine Lavoisier, Traité élémentaire de chimi, the first textbook on modern chemistry
• 1789: Austrian Netherlands declare independence and become Belgium
• 1789: Birth of James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist
• 1789: Birth of Louis Cauchy, French mathematician
• 1789: Blake, Songs of Innocence

• 1789: Charlotte Brooke, Reliques of Irish Poetry
• 1789: Charlotte Smith, Ethelinda, or The Recluse of the Lake
• 1789: December: America ratifies the Bill of Rights
• 1789: Edmund Burke criticizes the French Revolution; Thomas Paine responds with "The Rights of Man"
• 1789: Erasmus Darwin, "The Loves of the Plants," from The Botanic Garden
• 1789: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (publication finished)
• 1789: Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, argues that "the greatest happiness of the greatest number" is the goal of all legislation
• 1789: Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace, Laws of the Planetary System
• 1789: May 7: Macklin's last performance, as Shylock (incomplete)
• 1789: One of the largest reflectors ever built measures 49" mirror finished by Hershcel
• 1789: Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille July14
• 1789: Pestalozzi'sLienhard and Gertrud
• 1789: Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declaring independence as Belgium
• 1789: Russian explorers found Odessa on the Black Sea
• 1789: Susanna Rowson, Mary, or The Test of Honour
• 1789: The French Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man
• 1789: Wilberforce introduces resolutions on the slave trade in Parliament, and Commons agrees to hear evidence
• 1789: William Blake, Songs of Innocence
• 1789: William Blake, Tiriel (written and illustrated 1788-1789, but never illuminated or published)
• 1789: William Lisle Bowles, Sonnets
• 1790: 12 July: France: Civil constitution of the Clergy (the state gets clergy's tithes and property)
• 1790: 13 July: William Wordsworth arrives in Calais with friend Robert Jones to begin his walking tour of Europe, incldg the Alps.; they arrive just in time for the Festival of Federation (Bastille day, held July 14)
• 1790: 29 November: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Man
• 1790: 4 March: Henry Flood proposes Parliamentary Reform, an elimination of the rotten boroughs
• 1790: 9 February: Edmund Burke, "Speech on the Army Estimates"
• 1790: Amelie Opie, The Dangers of Coquetry
• 1790: America passes its first patent law
• 1790: Ann Radcliffe, The Sicilian Romance
• 1790: Austria and Prussia sign Treaty of Reichenbach
• 1790: Austria and Prussia sign the Treaty of Reichenbach
• 1790: Charlotte Lennox, Euphemia
• 1790: Convention of Berlin concerning Belgium between England, Prussia & Holland
• 1790: David Williams founds The Royal Literary Fund
• 1790: December: George Rous, Thoughts on Government
• 1790: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
• 1790: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (rapidly followed by a French translation)
• 1790: England, Prussia, and Holland hold the Convention of Berlin to discuss Belgium
• 1790: First passenger steamship built in the US by John Fitch
• 1790: Helena Maria Williams, Julia: a Novel, "Sonnet to Hope," and Letters from France
• 1790: Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgment
• 1790: Kant, Critique of Judgement
• 1790: Karl Moritz' novel, Anton Reiser(4 vol.)
• 1790: Llavoisier develops a table of thirty-one chemical elements
• 1790: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Man
• 1790: October: Habeas Corpus Act Suspended
• 1790: Rhode Island ratifies the U.S. Constitution, the last of the original thirteen colonies to do so
• 1790: Select Committee of Commons hears testimony on the slave trade
• 1790: The building of the Firth Clyde canal and the Oxford-Birmingham canal begins
• 1790: William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (dated 1792)
• 1790: William Nicholson of England invents the rotary press
• 1791: 1 October: The French Legislative Assembly opens
• 1791: 1 September: William Blake illustrates an edition of Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories
• 1791: 1 September: William Blake illustrates an edition of Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories
• 1791: 14 July: The "Church and King Terror" or Birmingham riots; Joseph Priestly's house and laboratory are destroyed by a mob
• 1791: 19 May: Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly" (dated January)
• 1791: 2 August: Edmond Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
• 1791: 20 August: Thomas Paine, "Address and Declaration of the Friends of Universal Peace and Liberty," responds to Burke
• 1791: 7 May: James Mackintosh, Vindicae Gallicae
• 1791: A slave uprising on St. Domingue causes sugar prices to rise steeply
• 1791: Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest
• 1791: Annexation of Comtat Venaissin and Avignon by France
• 1791: Birth of Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist
• 1791: Birth of Samuel Morse, American inventor and painter
• 1791: Charlotte Smith, Celestina
• 1791: Commons approves a charter for Sierra Leone, its company pledged to oppose the slave trade in Africa
• 1791: Commons rejects Wilberforce's first abolition motion
• 1791: Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney, Ruins of Empires (French)
• 1791: Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1791: December: The French Legislative Assembly deprives emigrés of their property
• 1791: December: William Wordsworth visits France a second time
• 1791: Declaration of Pillnitz, as Austria and Prussia enter into a league against France
• 1791: Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
• 1791: February-March: Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Part I
• 1791: French National Assembly dissolved
• 1791: French painter, Théodore Géricault
• 1791: Horace Walpole inherits an earldom from his nephew, becoming Fourth Earl of Orford
• 1791: James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
• 1791: January: William Wordsworth travels from London to Cambridge
• 1791: Marquis de Sade, Justine
• 1791: Nicholas Leblanc of France patents sodium carbonate (soda)
• 1791: Susanna Rowson, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth (later retitled Charlotte Temple)
• 1791: Susanna Rowson, Mentoria; or, The Young Lady's Friend
• 1791: United Irishmen founded in Belfast
• 1791: William Blake, The French Revolution (proofs only; published later)
• 1791: William Gregor discovers titanium
• 1791: William Lisle Bowles, A Poetical Address to Burke
• 1792: 1 December: King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
• 1792: 10 August: Attack on the Tuileries Palace leads to the deposing of Louis XVI and the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly
• 1792: 11 April: Radical Whigs declare themselves "The Society of the Friends of the People"
• 1792: 13 September: Thomas Paine flees to France
• 1792: 15 December: Birth of Caroline Vallon, daugher of William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon
• 1792: 2-6 September: Thousands of political prisoners murdered in the "September Massacres"
• 1792: 20 April: France declares war against Austria
• 1792: 20 August: The Coalition Armies (Austrian, Prussian, and French royalist troops) attack France
• 1792: 20 November: John Reeves founds the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers as a means of countering Jacobin fervor
• 1792: 20 September: The French victory at Valmy causes the Coalition army to retreat to the Rhine
• 1792: 21 May: George III issues a Royal Proclamation vs. seditious writings, banning The Rights of Man and charging Thomas Paine with sedition
• 1792: 21 September: Newly elected National Convention abolishes the monarchy and officially declares France a Republic
• 1792: 22 December: The Whigs form the Friends of the Liberty of the Press to defend free speech against Loyalists
• 1792: 24 May: Arthur Young, Travels
• 1792: 25 January: Shoemaker Thomas Hardy starts the London Corresponding Society
• 1792: 27 September: London Corresponding Society's "Joint Address to the French National Convention"
• 1792: 29 October: Louvet denounces Robespierre
• 1792: August-September: The Commune of Paris tries to fend off invasion and organize elections
• 1792: August: Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
• 1792: August: Lafayette, leader of the French National Guard, deserts
• 1792: Benjamin West succeeds Sir Joshua Reynolds as President of the Royal Academy
• 1792: Birth of Giacchino Rossini, Italian composer
• 1792: Birth of Karl Baer, German biologist
• 1792: Blake, "Motto to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience" (dated 1792); Charlotte Smith, Desmond; Schiller, On the Ground of Pleasure in the Tragic Object; Coleridge, Greek Sapphic Ode "Ode on the Slave Trade," written during freshman year at Cambridge
• 1792: Boycott of sugar begins
• 1792: Death of Robert Adam, architect
• 1792: Death of Sir Joshua Reynolds
• 1792: December: First General Convention of Scottish Reformers in Edinburgh
• 1792: December: Mary Wollstonecraft leaves for France
• 1792: December: William Wordsworth returns to England
• 1792: Denmark decrees gradual abolition by 1803
• 1792: Fox's Libel Act requires a jury, not a judge, to determine libel
• 1792: French royal family imprisoned
• 1792: January: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• 1792: Mass petition compaign for abolition in Britain
• 1792: May: Society for Constitutional Information prints as a pamphlet and cheaply distributes Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
• 1792: November: France pledges to support other nations that revolt
• 1792: Relief Act allows Catholics in Ireland to become lawyers
• 1792: Samuel Rogers' The Pleasures of Memory
• 1792: September: The French National Convention abolishes the monarchy and declares the beginning of the new French Republic
• 1792: Susanna Rowson, Rebecca
• 1792: Thomas Paine is found guilty of sedition for Rights of Man and sentenced to death (18 December)
• 1792: William Blake, engravings for Stedman's Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against revolted Negroes of Surinam
• 1792: William Murdock of Cornwall, England, uses coal gas lighting in his home
• 1793: 1 February: France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic
• 1793: 10 August: Festival of Republican Reunion; Montagnards and sans-culottes celebrate their victory over the king in 1792 and over the Girondins
• 1793: 10 March: France establishes the Revolutionary Tribunal
• 1793: 11 February: England declares war on France
• 1793: 11 March: Revolt of La Vendée (really the beginning of Civil War in France): an uprising of French royalists vs. the Republican government
• 1793: 14 February: William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
• 1793: 15 June: The Association of the Friends of the Liberty of the Press has its last meeting (too heterogenous a group to hold together)
• 1793: 16 October: Execution of Marie Antoinette
• 1793: 17 July: France: Charlotte Corday executed, beginning the Terror
• 1793: 17 September: France: "The Law of Suspects"; Hebertists push through a law mandating incarceration of suspected traitors to the new regime
• 1793: 19 November: A convention of Scottish and British reformers meets in Edinburgh: one of the five delegates from England, Charles Sinclair, later moved that the meeting be called "The British Convention of the Delegates of the People, associated to obtain Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments." Among the English reformers were Maurice Margarot and Joseph Gerrald of the London Corresponding Society; William Skirving headed up delegates from the Scottish societies
• 1793: 21 January: Death of Louis XVI
• 1793: 21 January: Execution of Louis XVI
• 1793: 26 February: Arthur Young, The Example of France, A Warning to Britain
• 1793: 27 January-7 February: Formal mourning of the British Court for Louis's death
• 1793: 27 July: Robespierre elected to the Committee of Public Safety
• 1793: 30 April: The second general convention of Scottish reformers in Edinburgh
• 1793: 31 May-2 June: Insurrection leading to arrest of the Girondins in the 1793 National Convention
• 1793: 5 October: France adopts the revolutionary calendar
• 1793: 5 September: uprising in Paris; institution of "Terror" as "the order of the day" in the National Convention
• 1793: 5-6 December: Margarot and Gerrald are arrested; later Skirving and Sinclair; the British Convention is dissolved by magistrates
• 1793: 6 May: Grey's motion on reform: petitions from radical societies are presented to parliament. The petitions are dismissed as disrespectful and tabled; the motion is defeated 282 to 41.
• 1793: August-September: Scottish radicals Muir and Palmer are sentenced to 7-14 years transportation to Botany Bay by Chief Justice in Edinburgh, Lord Braxfield
• 1793: Birth of Nikolai Lobachevski, Russian mathematician
• 1793: Britain begins campaign to capture the French slave islands, occupying Tobago and Cape Nicolas-Mole on St. Domingue
• 1793: Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House
• 1793: Commons narrowly rejects general abolition of the British foreign slave trade, while the House of Lords contiues hearings.
• 1793: Death of Marat, murdered by Charlotte Corday
• 1793: Eli Whitney of America invents the cotton gin
• 1793: February-March: William Wordsworth writes his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (published posthumously)
• 1793: February: William Frend, Peace and Union
• 1793: February: William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
• 1793: February: William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
• 1793: Fichte, Two pamphlets concerning the French Revolution
• 1793: First Coalition against France of Britain, Austira, Prussia, Holland, Spain
• 1793: France declares war on Britain and Holland
• 1793: Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
• 1793: July: William Wordsworth tours Wales and western England (Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, Tintern Abbey, Goodrich Castle); writes Salisbury Plain and "Adventures on Salisbury Plain"
• 1793: Louis XVI executed
• 1793: Marat (Fr. revolution leader) murdered by Charlotte Corday
• 1793: Marie Antoinette executed
• 1793: Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation" (published posthumously)
• 1793: May: William Frend is tried by a University Court and banished from Cambridge
• 1793: N.M. Karamin, Poor Lisa and Natalia (Russian short stories)
• 1793: November: France legislates against belief in God.
• 1793: October: Marie Antoinette executed.
• 1793: Robert Burns, "Scots wha hae?" (September)
• 1793: Robespierre joins Committee on Public Safety
• 1793: Roman Catholic faith banned in France
• 1793: Second Partition of Poland
• 1793: The French Republic declares war on England, Holland, and Spain.
• 1793: Thomas Paine imprisoned in France
• 1793: Thomas Spence, One Pennyworth of Pig's Meat
• 1793: William Blake advertises The Songs of Experience as a separate book from Innocence
• 1793: William Blake, America a Prophecy, Visions of the Daughers of Albion, and For Children: The Gates of Paradise.
• 1793: William Blake, Prospectus "To the Public"
• 1793: William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches
• 1793: Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
• 1794: 10 June: French law eliminates defense lawyers and witnesses
• 1794: 12 May: Hardy and Adams, secretaries of the London Corresponding Society, are arrested
• 1794: 14 April: London Corresponding Society protests the sentences against Muir and Palmer
• 1794: 27 July: France: "The Ninth of Thermidor": Robespierre is arrested and soon executed, ending the Reign of Terror in France
• 1794: 28 May: William Godwin, Caleb Williams
• 1794: 28 October: Thomas Erskine defends the reformers in the treason trials
• 1794: 6 October: Lord Justice Eyre changes the accusation against the reformers from sedition to the more serious High Treason
• 1794: 7 May: Habeas Corpus is suspended
• 1794: America establishes its Navy
• 1794: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
• 1794: Anne Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
• 1794: Birth of Fanny Imlay, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay
• 1794: Charlotte Smith, The Wanderings of Warwick, The Emigrants, The Banished Man
• 1794: Commons passes a foreign abolition bill, tabled by Lords
• 1794: Death of Edward Gibbon
• 1794: Edmund Burke retires from Parliament
• 1794: Edward Stone proposes the bark of the willow -- salicylic acid -- as a medicine; it later becomes the basic ingredient of aspirin
• 1794: Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia
• 1794: France raids Sierra Leone
• 1794: January: Skirving and Margarot found guilty of sedition
• 1794: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, On the Concept of the Science of Knowledge
• 1794: John Dalton of England discovers color blindness
• 1794: June: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey plan the Pantisocracy
• 1794: June: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey plan the Pantisocracy
• 1794: L'Ecole de Sante, a medical school, opens in Paris, France
• 1794: March-April: The Hebertists and Dantonists are arrested and executed in France
• 1794: Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution
• 1794: November: After Thomas Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, and Holcroft are acquitted of treason
• 1794: Richard Brinsley Sheridan opens a new theater
• 1794: September: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, The Fall of Robespierre
• 1794: September: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, The Fall of Robespierre
• 1794: Susanna Rowson, Slaves in Algiers
• 1794: The Great Terror, begun in 1793, continues; the dead reach 1,400
• 1794: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
• 1794: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
• 1794: Treason Trials in Britain
• 1794: U.S. navy established
• 1794: Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania
• 1794: William Blake, Europe: A Prophecy, The First Book of Urizen, and Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• 1794: William Paley, Evidences of Christianity
• 1795: 1 April: France: the uprising of 12 Germinal
• 1795: 12 November: London Corresponding Society holds monster meeting in a field near Copenhagen House, defying the Royal proclamation of 4 November
• 1795: 13 January: France abolishes the price controls on grain (the Maximum)
• 1795: 16 June: Coleridge, lecture on the Slave Trade
• 1795: 16 March: The Philanthropist, a weekly planned by William Wordsworth and William Mathews in May to June 1794, appears after Wordsworth's withdrawal from the project
• 1795: 17 June: Montagnard deputies commit suicide on the way to the guillotine
• 1795: 17 November: Norwich Patriotic and Sheffield Constitutional Society meet
• 1795: 20-23 May: France: the insurrection of 1-4 Prairial; the arrest of forty-one Montagnards in the Convention
• 1795: 21 November: William Godwin, Considerations on Lord Grenville's and Mr Pitt's Bills
• 1795: 23 December: Society for Constitutional Information publishes a lengthy analysis of the Two Acts on how to evade them; the London Corresponding Society reorganizes into small divisions so that no more than fifty people will meet together at a time
• 1795: 23 November: Fox, predicting the people will revolt, moves for a week's delay in voting on the Two Acts on the grounds that they repealed the Bill of Rights of 1689
• 1795: 23 November: London Corresponding Society defends itself in An Explicit Declaration of the Principles and Views of the London Corresponding Society
• 1795: 26 June: Mass meeting of London Corresponding Society
• 1795: 26 November: Coleridge, Lecture on the Two Bills
• 1795: 26 November: Coleridge, Lecture on the Two Bills
• 1795: 26 October: Second mass meeting of London Corresponding Society; Directory Government elected in France
• 1795: 29 October: George III on the way to parliament; a mob pummels the King's carriage, shouting "Bread! Peace! No Pitt!"
• 1795: 4 November: Royal Proclamation against public meetings
• 1795: 6-10 November: Pitt and Grenville introduce "The Gagging Acts" or the "Two Bills": the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills forbid large meetings and political lectures
• 1795: 7 December: London Corresponding Society meets at Regent's Park
• 1795: 8 December: Coleridge, Conciones ad Populum (Sermons to the People)
• 1795: 8 December: Coleridge, Conciones ad Populum (Sermons to the People)
• 1795: 8 March: The Girondists are admitted back into the French Convention
• 1795: Ann Yearsley, The Royal Captives
• 1795: August: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's arguments with Robert Southey lead to the abandonment of the pantisocracy
• 1795: August: William Wordsworth has a nervous breakdown
• 1795: Birth of Charles Barry, English architect
• 1795: Birth of Frederick William IV, King of Prussia
• 1795: Birth of John Keats, English poet
• 1795: British slave islands are attacked by French revolutionary forces
• 1795: Burke, "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity"
• 1795: Charlotte Smith, Montalbert
• 1795: Commons again defeats abolition
• 1795: Condorcet, Tableau historique des progrés de l'esprit humain, arguing for the perfectability of mankind
• 1795: Death of James Boswell
• 1795: Death of John Christopher Smith, German engraver
• 1795: Death of Josiah Wedgwood, potter
• 1795: February-June: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Bristol lectures, including "On the Slave Trade"
• 1795: First horse drawn railroad in England
• 1795: Foundation of the Orange Order in Ireland
• 1795: France adopts the metric system
• 1795: France makes peace with Prussia, Tuscany, Spain
• 1795: Friedrick Schiller, Letters Concerning the Aesthetic Education of Mankind
• 1795: Goethe, Wilhelm Meister
• 1795: History of the Two Acts: ninety-four petitions signed by 130,000 people were presented to parliament protesting these acts
• 1795: January: The Terror begins to break down, as Parisians near starvation
• 1795: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
• 1795: Joseph Bramah invents the hydraulic press
• 1795: Joseph Fawcett, The Art of War
• 1795: Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies
• 1795: May-June: "White Terror" in South France against the former Terrorists
• 1795: May: Mary Wollstonecraft attempts suicide over problems with Gilbert Imlay
• 1795: Napoleon becomes the commander of France's Arme d'Interieur
• 1795: November: Mary Wollstonecraft attempts suicide
• 1795: October: Kyd Wake, a journeyman, is yells "No George, no War" and is sentenced to the pillory, five years imprisonment at hard labor, and one thousand pounds sureties
• 1795: October: Samuel Taylor Coleridge marries Sara Fricker
• 1795: October: William Wordsworth settles with Dorothy at Racedown
• 1795: Paine, The Age of Reason (Part I)
• 1795: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, The Fall of Robespierre
• 1795: Schelling, On the I as Principle of Philosophy, or on the Absolute in Human Knowledge
• 1795: Schiller, Letters on Aesthetic Education and On Naive and Sentimental Poetry
• 1795: September: William Wordsworth meets Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1795: Susanna Rowson, The Volunteers
• 1795: Susanna Rowson, Trials of the Human Heart
• 1795: The Famine Year
• 1795: The Two Bills are approved by the King and become law (18 December)
• 1795: Third Partition of Poland
• 1795: Third partition of Poland
• 1795: Thomas Erskine calls for the repeal of the Two Bills (20 December)
• 1795: White Terror and bread riots in Paris
• 1795: William Blake, The Song of Los, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania illuminated books, and a series of prints including Newton and Nebuchadnezzar
• 1795: William Wordsworth meets William Godwin and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1796: 1 March: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, first issue
• 1796: 11 March: Binns and Jones are arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham; Francis Place is sent to defend them; they will be tried for violating the Two Acts. Binns is acquitted in August 1800, but Jones convicted April 1799, although never sentenced
• 1796: 13 May: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Watchman ceases publication
• 1796: 16 April: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems on Various Subjects
• 1796: 19 September: Birth of Hartley Coleridge, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1796: 21 August: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft become lovers
• 1796: 24 February: Edmund Burke, "A Letter to a Noble Lord"
• 1796: 24 February: Edmund Burke, "A Letter to a Noble Lord"
• 1796: 24 February: Edmund Burke, "A Letter to a Noble Lord"
• 1796: 6 February: John Binns and John Gale Jones, missionary delegates from the London Corresponding Society, are sent to rural reform societies to explain to them how to evade and not challenge the Two Bills
• 1796: 9 January: Samuel Coleridge tours the Midlands to sell The Watchman, giving political talks he calls "sermons"
• 1796: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Evenings at Home
• 1796: April: Napoleon leads the French victory over Austria
• 1796: Birth of Camille Corot, French painter
• 1796: Birth of Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia
• 1796: Birth of Sadi Carnot, French engineer
• 1796: Charlotte Smith, Marchmont
• 1796: Commons narrowly defeats abolition. The Dolben act is not renewed because of oversight. British troops retake slave islands from French.
• 1796: Death of James Macpherson, Scottish poet and forger
• 1796: Death of Sir William Chambers, architect
• 1796: December: Samuel Taylor Coleridge moves to Nether Stowey
• 1796: Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste
• 1796: Edward Gibbon, Memoirs (a.k.a. Autobiography) (posthumous)
• 1796: Edward Jenner discovers a vaccine for smallpox
• 1796: Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art
• 1796: Frances Burney, Camilla
• 1796: G. C. Cuvier founds the science of comparative zoology
• 1796: J. T. Lowitz distills pure ethyl alcohol
• 1796: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister (Pt. I)
• 1796: Madame de Staël, De l'Influence des passions
• 1796: Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant
• 1796: Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney
• 1796: Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk
• 1796: May: Napoleon enters Milan and establishes the Lombard Republic
• 1796: Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian victories
• 1796: Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
• 1796: Pitt's "Reign of Terror"
• 1796: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (Part II) and Agrarian Justice
• 1796: William Wordsworth, The Borderers: A Tragedy, begun in the autumn
• 1797: 10 September: Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (in childbirth)
• 1797: 16 October: Coleridge, Osorio and Poems
• 1797: 17 October: France and Austria sign peace treaty
• 1797: 20 November: First issue of the ministerial journal the Anti-Jacobin, published until 9 July 1798
• 1797: 26 May: Grey's motion for parliamentary reform is defeated
• 1797: 30 August: Birth of Mary Shelley
• 1797: 31 July: London Corresponding Society meets illegally at St Pancras
• 1797: 4 September: France: Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V, against the royalists
• 1797: 9 July: Death of Edmund Burke
• 1797: Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
• 1797: April-June: British naval mutinies at Spithead and Nore
• 1797: Birth of Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
• 1797: Birth of Heinrich Heine, German poet
• 1797: Birth of Joseph Henry, American physicist
• 1797: Birth of William I, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany
• 1797: Charles Newbold of America patents the single-cast iron plow
• 1797: Coleridge writes Kubla Khan and the first version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published 1798
• 1797: Commons rejects abolition and renews the Dolben Act
• 1797: Death of Charles Macklin
• 1797: Death of Horace Walpole
• 1797: Death of Joseph Wright of Derby
• 1797: February: Bank of England suspends cash payments
• 1797: First passenger high pressure steam coach built by English engineer Richard Trevithick
• 1797: Friedlich Hölderlin, Hyperion (through 1799)
• 1797: Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments (in the journal Lyceum)
• 1797: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Ideas on the Philosophy of Nature
• 1797: Hölderlin, Hyperion I
• 1797: Henry Maudslay of England invents the metal lathe
• 1797: July-August: The radical John Thelwall visits Wordsworth and Coleridge at Nether Stowey, leading to their investigation by a Home Office informer
• 1797: July: Fox's Whigs secede from Commons
• 1797: July: William and Dorothy Wordsworth move to Alfoxden House near Coleridge at Nether Stowey
• 1797: L. N. Vauquelin of France discovers chromium
• 1797: March: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft marry
• 1797: March: William Wordsworth visits Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Nether Stowey
• 1797: Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa
• 1797: The third edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica appears in eighteen volumes
• 1797: William Blake provides engravings for an edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts
• 1798: 11 May: France: The Coup of 22 Floreal, Year VI, against the Jacobins
• 1798: 13 July: William Wordsworth revisits Tintern Abbey and writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey"
• 1798: 29 January: William Godwin, Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, including Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman and Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1798: 6 October: William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Coleridge leave England for Germany
• 1798: 8 September: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, first edition
• 1798: Abbé Barreul, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (translated into English)
• 1798: Aloys Senefelder of Germany develops the techniques for lithography
• 1798: Baron Cuvier, Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux, the first modern work of comparative anatomy
• 1798: Benjamin Rumford of America discovers the principles by which friction generates heat
• 1798: Charles Brockden Brown, Alcuin: A Dialogue on the Rights of Women
• 1798: Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, or the Transformation
• 1798: Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher
• 1798: Commons rejects abolition
• 1798: February-October: The Irish Rebellion
• 1798: February: Napoleon occupies Rome, and begins his campaigns in Egypt and the Middle East
• 1798: France annexes left bank of the Rhine
• 1798: French painter, Eugène Delacroix
• 1798: George Canning, The Loves of Triangles, parodies Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden
• 1798: Henry Cavendish of England calculates the mass of the earth
• 1798: Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions, vol. 1
• 1798: Joseph Johnson and Gilbert Wakefield are imprisoned
• 1798: June: Thomas Robert Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population
• 1798: Maria Edgeworth, Practical Education
• 1798: Susanna Rowson, Reuben and Rachel; or, Tales of Old Times
• 1798: Thomas Robert Malthus, Essay on the Principles of Population
• 1798: William Blake begins his annotations of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses
• 1798: William Blake, Annotations to Bishop Watson's Apology
• 1799: 20 December: William and Dorothy Wordsworth move to Dove Cottage, Grasmere
• 1799: 21 April: Dorothy and William Wordsworth return to England
• 1799: 26 October: Coleridge meets Sara Hutchinson, sister of Wordsworth's future wife
• 1799: 29 July: Samuel Taylor Coleridge returns to Nether Stowey
• 1799: 9 November: Napoleon becomes the First Consul of France in the Coup of 18 Brumaire
• 1799: Birth of Honoré de Balzac, French novelist
• 1799: Britain conquers Surinam
• 1799: Commons passes an African slave coast restriction act, rejected by Lords
• 1799: Commons rejects abolition
• 1799: Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia
• 1799: French Directory overthrown, Bonaparte coup d'etat and made First Consul
• 1799: Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde
• 1799: Hölderlin, Hyperion II
• 1799: Humphry Davy develops nitrous oxide and uses it for anesthesia
• 1799: Johann Gottfried von Herder, Understanding and Experience: A Metacritique on the Critique of Pure Reason
• 1799: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Propylae
• 1799: Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice
• 1799: May: William Blake, The Last Supper, exhibited at the Royal Academy
• 1799: Napoleon continues his campaigns in Egypt and the Middle East
• 1799: Novalis, Die Christenheit, oder Europa
• 1799: October-November: Wordsworth and Coleridge make a walking tour of the Lake District
• 1799: Second coalition against France as Austria declares war
• 1799: Sugar prices begin to decline
• 1799: Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope
• 1799: Wilhelm Humboldt tells of his observation of the Great Leonid meteor shower
• 1799: William Godwin, St. Leon
• 1799: William Wordsworth, "Two-Part Prelude," "Lucy Gray" and the "Lucy poems"
• 1800: Act of Union with Ireland
• 1800: Alessandro Volta develops the electric battery
• 1800: Alexander von Humboldt explores the Orinoco River in South America
• 1800: Blake moves to Felpham to live under the patronage of William Hayley
• 1800: Franz Joseph Gall invents craniology
• 1800: Friedrich Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism
• 1800: Humphry Davy publishes Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide
• 1800: Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
• 1800: Novalis, Hymn of the Night
• 1800: William Wordsworth writes The Recluse, book I ("Home at Grasmere," unpublished until 1888)
• 1800: William Wordsworth, Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads