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18th century Britain
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/18th_century_Britain
GPTKB entity
Statements (50)
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