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Sarah BARTLETT

Female 1670 - 1688  (18 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1670 
  • 1670: Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France to restore Roman Catholicism to England; Hudson's Bay Company founded
1672 
  • 1672: Third Anglo-Dutch war (until 1674); William III (of Orange) becomes ruler of Netherlands
1673 
  • 1673: Test Act aims to deprive English Roman Catholics and Nonconformists of public office
1674 
  • 1674: Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus in a distillation of human urine
  • 1674: Anton van Leeuwenhoek reported his discovery of protozoa, using his newly-devised microscope
  • 1674: Treaty of Westminster between England and the Netherlands
1677 
  • 1677: William III, ruler of the Netherlands, marries Mary, daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne
1678 
  • 1678: Popish Plot' in England; Titus Oates falsely alleges a Catholic plot to murder Charles II
1679 
  • 1679: Act of Habeas Corpus passed, forbidding imprisonment without trial; Parliament's Bill of Exclusion against the Roman Catholic Duke of York blocked by Charles II; Parliament dismissed; Charles II rejects petitions calling for a new Parliament; petitioners become known as Whigs; their opponents (royalists) known as Tories
1681 
  • 1681: Whigs reintroduce Exclusion Bill; Charles II dissolves Parliament
1685 
  • 1685: James II of England and VII of Scotland (to 1688); rebellion by Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, against James II is put down
10 1686 
  • 1686: James II disregards Test Act; Roman Catholics appointed to public office
11 1687 
  • 1687: James II issues Declaration of Liberty of Conscience, extends toleration to all religions
12 1688 
  • 1688: Edward Lloyd's coffee house opens in England
  • 1688: England's 'Glorious Revolution'; William III of Orange is invited to save England from Roman Catholicism, lands in England, James II flees to France


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