18th century Britain

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/18th_century_Britain

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:London
gptkbp:currency	Pound sterling
gptkbp:endDate	1800
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	18th century Britain
gptkbp:monarch	gptkb:King_George_II gptkb:King_George_III gptkb:Queen_Anne gptkb:King_George_I
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Enlightenment_in_Britain gptkb:enclosure_movement abolition of the slave trade expansion of the British Empire growth of cities rise of newspapers development of canals rise of Methodism growth of the middle class
gptkbp:notableFigure	gptkb:Adam_Smith gptkb:David_Hume gptkb:Isaac_Newton gptkb:James_Watt gptkb:Jane_Austen gptkb:Josiah_Wedgwood gptkb:Mary_Wollstonecraft gptkb:Samuel_Johnson gptkb:Samuel_Richardson gptkb:William_Blake gptkb:William_Wilberforce gptkb:Horace_Walpole gptkb:Joshua_Reynolds gptkb:Robert_Walpole gptkb:Thomas_Gainsborough gptkb:William_Pitt_the_Elder gptkb:George_III gptkb:Edmund_Burke
gptkbp:officialLanguage	English
gptkbp:parliament	gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Kingdom_of_Great_Britain
gptkbp:predecessor	17th century Britain
gptkbp:significantEvent	gptkb:Acts_of_Union_1707 gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War gptkb:Industrial_Revolution gptkb:Jacobite_risings gptkb:French_Revolutionary_Wars gptkb:Seven_Years'_War
gptkbp:startDate	1701
gptkbp:successor	19th century Britain
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Claret
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6