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| 1 | 1700 | - 1700—1799:
SA - VOC slave trading in Mozambique; Zanzibar and Madagascar
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| 2 | 1707 | - 16 Jan 1707—16 Jan 1707:
Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English
Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in
March
- 1 May 1707—1 May 1707:
English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament -
The Kingdom of Great Britain established - largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
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| 3 | 1708 | - 1708—1708:
First Jacobite rising in Scotland
- 1708—1708:
Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
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| 4 | 1709 | - 1709—1709:
Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
- 1709—1709:
First Copyright Act pass
- 1709—1709:
Bad harvests throughout Europe - bread riots in Britain
- 2 Feb 1709—2 Feb 1709:
Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book
Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
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| 5 | 1710 | - 1710—1710:
Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
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| 6 | 1711 | - 1711—1711:
Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
- 11 Aug 1711—11 Aug 1711:
First race meeting at Ascot
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| 7 | 1712 | - 1712—1712:
Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
- 1712—1712:
Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
- 1712—1712:
Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
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