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Rebeckah HEMMENWAY

Female Abt 1704 - 1707  (3 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1704 
  • 1704: Penal Code enacted – Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 13 Aug 1704: Battle of Blenheim
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)
1706 
  • 1706: First evening newspaper "The Evening Post" issued in London
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