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Joseph PIERSON

Male Abt 1693 - Abt 1759  (66 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1693 
  • 4 Aug 1693: Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pierre Pérignon 's invention of Champagne
1694 
  • 1694: National Debt came into effect in England
  • 1694: Stamp Duties introduced into Britain from Holland
  • 1694: Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
  • 1694: Triennial Act, new Parliamentary elections every three years
  • 1694: Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane (-1699)
  • 27 Jul 1694: Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)
1695 
  • 1695: Freedom of Press in England granted
  • 1695: Bank of Scotland founded
  • 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
  • 1695: Start of "Dissenters" lists in parish registers – children born but not christened in the parish church – some were named "Papist" and others "Protestants"
1697 
  • 2 Dec 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
1698 
  • 1698: Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
  • 1698: Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
  • 1698: Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers – repealed after five years
  • 4 Jan 1698: Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
  • 14 Nov 1698: Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
1700 
  • 1700: Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
1701 
  • 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
  • 23 May 1701: After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd hanged in London
1702 
  • 8 Mar 1702: Anne Stuart becomes Queen
  • 11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
1703 
  • 4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
  • 24 Nov 1703: Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England – about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November (Nov 24 - Dec 2)
10 1704 
  • 1704: Penal Code enacted – Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 13 Aug 1704: Battle of Blenheim
11 1705 
  • 1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710 or 1711)
  • 1705: Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
12 1706 
  • 1706: First evening newspaper "The Evening Post" issued in London
13 1707 
  • 16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland – Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading privileges – Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March
  • 1 May 1707: English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament – The Kingdom of Great Britain established – largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
14 1708 
  • 1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
  • 1708: Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
15 1709 
  • 1709: Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
  • 1709: First Copyright Act pass
  • 1709: Bad harvests throughout Europe – bread riots in Britain
  • 2 Feb 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
16 1710 
  • 1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
17 1711 
  • 1711: Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
  • 11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
18 1712 
  • 1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
  • 1712: Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
  • 1712: Toleration Act passed – first relief to non-Anglicans
19 1713 
  • 1713: By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
20 1714 
  • 1714: Longitude Act: prize of £20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
  • 1714: Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
  • 1714: Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
  • 1 Aug 1714: Queen Anne Stuart dies – George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
21 1715 
  • 1715: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
  • 1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
22 1716 
  • 1716: The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption – general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
  • 1716: Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
23 1717 
  • 1717: First Masonic Lodge opens in London
  • 1717: Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
24 1719 
  • 1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
25 1720 
  • 1720: South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley – government assumes control of National Debt
  • 1720: Manufacturing towns start to increase in population – rise of new wealth
  • 1720: Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
26 1721 
  • 2 Apr 1721: Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
27 1722 
  • 1722: Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
  • 1722: Knatchbull's Act, poor laws
28 1723 
  • 1723: Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
  • 1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code – people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching – repealed in 1827
  • 1723: The Workhouse Act or Test – to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
29 1724 
  • 1724: Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
  • 1724: Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
30 1726 
  • 1726: First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
  • 1726: Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
31 1727 
  • 1727: Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
  • 11 Jun 1727: George I dies – George II Hanover becomes king
32 1729 
  • 9 Nov 1729: Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain – Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
33 1730 
  • 1730: Irish famine
34 1731 
  • 1731: Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
  • 1731: Invention of sextant by John Hadley
35 1732 
  • 7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
36 1733 
  • 1733: Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine – Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
  • 1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed – some continued in Latin for a few years
  • 1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
37 1734 
  • 1734: Kent's Directory published
38 1737 
  • 1737: Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
39 1738 
  • 24 May 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
40 1739 
  • 1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
  • 7 Apr 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
  • 23 Oct 1739: War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain
41 1741 
  • 1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites – Earliest Moravian registers
42 1742 
  • 1742: England goes to war with Spain – incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
43 1743 
  • 16 Jun 1743: (June 27 in Gregorian calendar): Battle of Dettingen – last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
44 1744 
  • 1744: Tune 'God Save the King' makes its appearance
45 1745 
  • 1745: Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
  • 19 Aug 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) lands in the western Highlands – raises support among Episcopalian and Catholic clans – The Pretender's army invades Perth, Edinburgh, and England as far as Derby
46 1746 
  • 16 Apr 1746: Battle of Culloden – last battle fought in Britain – 5,000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots – Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever – the wearing of the kilt prohibited
47 1747 
  • 1747: Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
  • 1747: Act for Pacification of the Highlands
48 1749 
  • 27 Apr 1749: First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (in Green Park, London)
49 1750 
  • Feb 1750: Series of earthquakes in London and the Home Counties cause panic with predictions of an apocalypse (Feb/Mar)
  • 16 Nov 1750: Original Westminster Bridge opened (replaced in 1862 due to subsidence)
50 1751 
  • Mar 1751: Chesterfield's Calendar Act passed – royal assent to the bill was given on 22 May 1751 – decision to adopt Gregorian Calendar in 1752: "In and throughout all his Majesty's Dominions and Countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, belonging or subject to the Crown of Great Britain, the said Supputation, according to which the Year of Useful dates in British history 03/01/2009 12:12 our Lord beginneth on the 25th Day of March, shall not be made use of from and after the last Day of December 1751; and that the first Day of January next following the said last Day of December shall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the first Day of the Year of our Lord 1752"
51 1752 
  • 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor
  • 1 Jan 1752: Beginning of the year 1752 [Scotland had adopted January as the start of the year in 1600, and some other countries in Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar as early as 1582]
  • 3 Sep 1752: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this Sep 14
52 1753 
  • 1753: Private collection of Sir Hans Sloane forms the basis of the British Museum
  • 1 May 1753: Publication of "Species Plantarum" by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy
53 1754 
  • 1754: Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used – Quakers & Jews exempt
  • 1754: In the General Election, the Cow Inn at Haslemere, Surrey caused a national scandal by subdividing the freehold to create eight votes instead of one
  • 1754: First British troops not belonging to the East India Company despatched to India
54 1755 
  • 1755: Publication of "Dictionary of the English Language" by Dr Samuel Johnson
  • 1755: Period of canal construction began in Britain (till 1827)
  • 2 Dec 1755: Second Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed by fire
55 1756 
  • 15 May 1756: The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
  • Jun 1756: Black Hole of Calcutta – 146 Britons imprisoned, most die according to British sources
56 1757 
  • 1757: The foundation laid for the Empire of India
  • 14 Mar 1757: Admiral Byng shot at Portsmouth for failing to relieve Minorca
  • 23 Jun 1757: The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassey (Palashi, June 23) – the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive
57 1758 
  • 1758: India stops being merely a commercial venture – England begins dominating it politically – The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade
58 1759 
  • 1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
  • 15 Jan 1759: British Museum opens to the public in London
  • 16 Oct 1759: Third Eddystone Lighthouse (John Smeaton's) completed