The Restoration and the Augustan Age


History and Culture

  • The Restoration of the monarchy

1.1 Charles II
1.2 The Great Plague and The Great Fire

  • From the Glorious Revolution to Queen Anne

2.1 From James II to the joint monarchs
2.2 Queen Anne's reign

  • The early Hanoverians

3.1 George I
3.2 George II

  • The Age of Reason

4.1 A golden age
4.2 Civility and moderation
4.3 The role of women
4.4 A new view of the natural world
4.5 Explorations

MAIN EVENTS:

  1. 1625-1649 Reign of Charles I
  2. June 30th 1649 Charles I was executed
  3. 1649-1660 The Commonwealth
  4. 1660-1685 Reign of Charles II
  5. 1665 The Great Plague
  6. 1666 The Great Fire of London
  7. 1685-1688 Reign of James II
  8. 1689-1702 Reign of William III
  9. 1690 The Glorious Revolution
  10. 1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne
  11. 1707 Unification of Scotland and England
  12. 1714-1727 Reign of George I
  13. 1727-1760 Reign of George II
  14. 1721-1742 Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister
  15. 1756-1763 The Seven Years War' between England and France
  16. 1770 Captain Cook discovers Australia