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Restoration
Culture
French tastes in fashion and manners
Theatres reopened
Libertine attitude, masques
Rebuilding of London
Modern cultural and political center
Diffusion of science
1660 royal society
Science+philosophy = empiricism (John Locke)
Art
1st half of 18th C Augustan age
1660 ➡️ Restoration: King Charles II
He dissolved the parliament
He reasserts the predominance of the Church of England
The great Plague (1665)
The Great fire of London (1666)
1685 King James II
Catholic
Very absolutist
Parliament’s secret plan
Calling in William of Orange
He lives in France and was Protestant
1688 glorious revolution
1714 King George I form Germany
He didn’t know English and English customs
The ministers used to meet without the king
Prime minister es introduced (1st: Robert Walpole)
Parliamentary monarchy
Tories
Old aristocracy
Whigs
Middle classes
1688 glorious revolution (bloodless revolution)
King William III
Bill of rights (1689)
The king cannot rule without the parliament
Toleration act (1689)
It garants religious freedom
1702 Queen Anne
1707 act of union
Monopoly of slave trade in Africa
Conquer of Canada
1727 king George II
Jacobite rebellion
To restore the Stuart pretender to the throne
Seven years war
Prussia+England VS the rest of Europe
Treaty of Paris
1760 King George III (1st native English)
Rebellion of American colonies (war of American indipendence)
Acquisition of Austria and New Zeland