England in the Eighteenth Century

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/England_in_the_Eighteenth_Century
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:currency pound sterling
gptkbp:endDate 1800
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label England in the Eighteenth Century
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:England
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:War_of_the_Spanish_Succession
Jacobite Rebellions
Napoleonic Wars (began 1799)
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Acts_of_Union_1707
gptkb:Industrial_Revolution
gptkb:American_War_of_Independence
gptkb:Seven_Years'_War
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:Adam_Smith
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:James_Watt
gptkb:Mary_Wollstonecraft
gptkb:Samuel_Johnson
gptkb:William_Wilberforce
gptkb:Horace_Walpole
gptkb:William_Hogarth
gptkb:William_Pitt_the_Elder
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:enclosure_movement
abolitionist movement
agricultural revolution
growth of cities
rise of Methodism
expansion of parliamentary power
rise of the British Empire
gptkbp:notableRuler gptkb:King_George_II
gptkb:King_George_III
gptkb:Queen_Anne
gptkb:King_George_I
gptkbp:officialLanguage English
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Anglicanism
gptkb:Catholicism
gptkb:Methodism
gptkbp:startDate 1701
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:J._H._Plumb
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5