eighteenth-century England

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/eighteenth-century_England

GPTKB entity

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
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gptkbp:currency	pound sterling
gptkbp:endDate	1800
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	eighteenth-century England
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:England
gptkbp:notableBattle	gptkb:Jacobite_risings gptkb:War_of_the_Spanish_Succession Napoleonic Wars (began 1790s)
gptkbp:notableBook	gptkb:Gulliver's_Travels_by_Jonathan_Swift Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Pamela by Samuel Richardson The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
gptkbp:notableCase	gptkb:Test_Act gptkb:Gin_Act_1751 Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (in effect)
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:Jane_Austen gptkb:John_Wesley gptkb:Mary_Wollstonecraft gptkb:Samuel_Johnson gptkb:William_Wilberforce gptkb:Horace_Walpole gptkb:William_Hogarth gptkb:Edmund_Burke
gptkbp:notableFor	abolitionist movement Enlightenment thought expansion of the British Empire growth of cities rise of the novel
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Bank_of_England gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom gptkb:Royal_Society gptkb:East_India_Company
gptkbp:notableMovement	gptkb:Georgian_architecture gptkb:Neoclassicism
gptkbp:notableRuler	gptkb:King_George_II gptkb:King_George_III gptkb:Queen_Anne gptkb:King_George_I
gptkbp:officialLanguage	English
gptkbp:partOf	18th century
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Anglicanism
gptkbp:startDate	1701
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Servants:_English_Domestics_in_the_Eighteenth_Century gptkb:Women,_Work_and_Sexual_Politics_in_Eighteenth-Century_England
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7