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11T09 Peter the Great, czar of Muscovy, defeats Charles XII, at Pultowa, who 

 flies to Turkey. 

 The battle of Maiplaquet won by Marlborough and the allies. 

 1T10 Queen Anne changes the Whig ministry for others more favourable to the 

 interest of her supposed brother, the late Pretender. 

 The cathedral church of St. Paul, London, rebuilt by sir Christopher Wren, 



in 57 years, at one million expence, by a duty on coals. 

 The English South-Sea company began. 



1713 The peace of Utrecht, by which Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New Britain, 



and Hudson's Bay, in North America, were yielded to Great Britain ; 

 Gibraltar and Minorca, in Europe, were also confirmed to the said crown 

 by this treaty. 



1714 Queen Anne dies at the age of 50, and is succeeded by George I. 

 Interest reduced to five per cent. 



1715 Louis XIV, dies, and is succeeded by his great-grandson, Louis XV. 



The rebellion in Scotland begins in September, under the earl of Mar, in fa- 

 vour of the Pretender. The action of Sheriff-muir, and the surrender of 

 Preston, both in November, when the rebels disperse. 



1716 The Pretender married to the princess Sobieski, grand-daughter of John 



Sobieski, late king of Poland. 

 An act passed for septennial parliaments. 



1719 The Mississippi scheme at its height in France. 



Lombe's silk-throwing machine, containing 26,586 wheels, erected at Derby ; 

 takes up one eighth of a mile ; one water-wheel moves the rest ; and in 

 24 hours it works 318,504,960 yards of organzine silk thread. 



1720 The South-sea scheme in England, begun April 7, was at its height at the 



end of June, and quite sunk about September 29. 

 1727 King George dies, in the 68th year of his age; and is succeeded by his only 

 son, George II. 

 Inoculation first tried on criminals with success. 

 Russia, formerly a dukedom, is now established as an empire. 

 1732 Kauli Khan usurps the Persian throne, conquers the Mogul empire, and re- 

 turns with 231,000,000/. sterling. 

 Several public-spirited gentlemen begin the settlement of Georgia, in North 

 America. 

 1739 War declared against Spain by the British. 



1743 The battle of Dettingen won by the English and allies, in favour of the queen 



of Hungary. 



1744 War between England and France. Commodore Anson returns from his 



voyage round the world. 



1745 The allies lose the battle of Fontenoy. 



The rebellion breaks out in Scotland, and the Pretender's army defeated by 

 the duke of Cumberland, at Culloden, April 16, 1746. 



1746 British Linen Company erected. 



1748 The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, by which a restitution of all places taken dur- 



ing the war was to be made on all sides. 



1749 The interest of the British funds reduced to three percent. 

 British herring fishery incorporated. 



1750 Frederic, prince of Wales, father to George III. died. 

 Antiquarian society at London incorporated. 



1752 The new style introduced into Great Britain ; the third of September being 

 counted the fourteenth. 



1755 Lisbon destroyed by an earthquake, Nov. 1. 



1756 One hundred and forty-six Englishmen confined in the black hole at Cal- 



cutta, in the East Indies, by order of the nabob, and 123 found dead next 

 morning. 



1757 Damien attempted to assassinate the French king. 



1759 General Wolfe is killed in the battle of Quebec, which is gained by the Eng- 



. lish. 



1760 King George II, dies October 25, in the 77th year of his age, and is suc- 



ceeded by his grandson George III, who, on" the 22d of September 1761 

 married the princess Charlotte of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. 

 Blackfriars-bridtfe, consisting of nine arches, begun; finished 1770, at the 

 expence of'15..,840/, to be discharged by a toll. 

 1 762 War between England and Spain. 



