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. Queen Anne had no surviving children and, following the old rules, there were at least
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Around 1714
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)