The Hanoverian Succession (In Our Time)
1714 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the intense political activity at the turn of the 18th Century, when many politicians in London went to great lengths to find a Protestant successor to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland and others went to equal lengths to oppose them.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1714
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)