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Elijah Estabrook

Elijah Estabrook

Male 1703 - 1740  (37 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1383 
  • 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
1574 
  • 1574—1738: Colonial State Papers published
    continued to 1738
1630 
  • 1630—1750: Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques
  • 1630—1750: Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)
1636 
  • 1636—1755: PRE-DEPORTATION PERIOD
1680 
  • 1680—1770: Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)
1702 
  • 1702—1714: Queen Anne
    Queen Anne ( 1702 - 1714 ) {\n}{\n}1702 - Anne succeeds her brother-in-law, William III.{\n}1702 - England declares war on France in the War of the Spanish Succession{\n}1704 - English, Bavarian, and Austrian troops under Marlborough defeat the French at
  • 1702—1714: Queen Ann Period (Art & Antiques)
  • 1702—1713: Queen Anne's War
    English Colonies vs France
  • 3 Aug 1702—1 Aug 1714: Anne
    House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs
1703 
  • 1703—1703: Eighth Acadian census
    With a population of 1,450, the Acadians are enumerated again.
  • 1703—1703: Repeal of Duties on entries in Parish Registers
    Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 1703—1703: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France counts 1,450
  • 4 Aug 1703—4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
  • 24 Nov 1703—24 Nov 1703: Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England - about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November (Nov 24 - Dec 2)
1704 
  • 1704—1704: Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 1704—1704: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland listing only heads of families
  • 13 Aug 1704—13 Aug 1704: Battle of Blenheim
1705 
  • 1705—1705: Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
  • 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710 or 1711)
  • 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newman
10 1706 
  • 1706—1706: First evening newspaper The Evening Post' issued in London
11 1707 
  • 1707—1707: 1st January - Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading pri
    Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March{\n}1st May - English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament - {\n}the Kingdom of Great Britian established{\n}Last use of veto by a British sovereign
  • 1707—1707: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1707—1707: The Act of Union is formed between Scotland and England, creating Great Britain.
  • 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
12 1708 
  • 1708—1708: Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
  • 1708—1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
  • 1708—1708: Queen Anne's war breaks out
    Queen Anne's war breaks out and there is unrest with the British.
  • 1708—1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
    Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
  • 1708—1708: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
13 1709 
  • 1709—1709: Bad harvests throughout Europe - bread riots in Britain
  • 1709—1709: First Copyright Act pass
  • 1709—1709: Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
  • 1709—1709: First Copyright Act passed
  • 1709—1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
  • 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
14 1710 
  • 1710—1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
  • 1710—1710: Port-Royal falls to the British
    Port-Royal falls to the British one last time and now called Annapolis Royal after Queen Anne.
  • 1710—1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures
15 1711 
  • 1711—1711: Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
  • 1711—1711: Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
  • 1711—1711: Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork
  • 11 Aug 1711—11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
  • 8 1711—23 Aug 1711: British Fleet runs aground on Ile-aux-Oeufs
    950 drown while preparing to attack Québec
16 1712 
  • 1712—1712: Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
  • 1712—1712: Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
  • 1712—1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
  • 1712—1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1835)
    Last trial of witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham){\n}Toleration Act passed{\n}First relief to non-Anglicans{\n}Patronage Act - patronage of ministers restored
  • 1712—1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
17 1713 
  • 1713—1713: By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
  • 1713—1713: Treaty of Utrecht
    Treaty of Utrecht. Acadia now belongs to England and never again returns to France.
  • 1713—1713: Treaty of Utrecht concludes the Was of the Spanish Succession
  • 1713—1713: Nova Scotia created
    Britain renames Acadia to Nova Scotia
  • 1713—1713: Treaty of Utrecht
    Britain gets possession of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Acadia -- except for Ile Royale (Cape Breton)
18 1714 
  • 1714—1714: Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
  • 1714—1714: Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
  • 1714—1714: Longitude Act: prize of ?20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
  • 1714—1714: 1st August - Queen Anne Stuart died - George I Hanover becomes king
    Chancery Proceedings filed under Six Clerics{\n}Schism Act{\n}Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism{\n}Quater Sessions Records from this date often mention Protestant dissenters and Roman Cathilic Recusants
  • 1714—1727: King George I
    King George I ( 1714 - 1727 ) {\n}{\n}1714 - George I, the first Hanoverian King, succeeds his distant cousin, Anne.{\n}1714 - A new Parliament is elected with a strong Whig majority led by Robert Walpole. {\n}1715 - The Jacobite rising begins in Scotland
  • 1714—1714: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 8 Jan 1714—Oct 1727: George I
    House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, granddaughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement
  • 1 Aug 1714—1 Aug 1714: Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
19 1715 
  • 1715—1715: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
  • 1715—1715: Riot Act passed
    Second Jacobire rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender (the fifteenth)
  • 1715—1715: Scots support James Edward Stuart as the king of Great Britain.
    Called the first Jacobite rebellion.
  • 1 Aug 1715—1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
20 1716 
  • 1716—1716: Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
  • 1716—1716: The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption - general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
  • 1716—1716: The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption -
    general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3
  • 1716—1716: Census of Acadia
    Census of Port Toulouse Acadians
21 1717 
  • 1717—1717: First Masonic Lodge opens in London
  • 1717—1717: Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
  • 1717—1717: First Masonic Lodge opens in London
  • 1717—1717: Edmond Halley invents the diving bell
22 1719 
  • 1719—1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
  • 1719—1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
23 1720 
  • 1720—1720: Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
  • 1720—1720: Manufacturing towns start to increase in population - rise of new wealth
  • 1720—1720: South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley - government assumes control of National Debt
  • 1720—1720: The French begin construction of the fortress at Louisbourg
    The fortress at Louisbourg begins construction.
  • 1720—1720: Irish Famine
  • 1720—1720: South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Esxchange Alley
    Manufacturing towns start to0 increase in population - rise of new wealth
24 1721 
  • 1721—1721: Robert Walpole (whig) becaomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
    Bailey's Northern Directory
  • 2 Apr 1721—2 Apr 1721: Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
25 1722 
  • 1722—1722: Knatchbull's Act, poor laws
  • 1722—1722: Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
  • 1722—1722: Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
    Knatchbull's Act, poor law
  • 1722—1722: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
26 1723 
  • 1723—1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
  • 1723—1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
  • 1723—1723: Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
  • 1723—1723: Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
    The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching{\n}The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
  • 1723—1726: Drummer's War
27 1724 
  • 1724—1724: Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
  • 1724—1724: Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
  • 1724—1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
28 1725 
  • 1725—1726: Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria
  • 12 1725—15 Dec 1725: Indian Treaties Signed
    Treaties between Eastern Aboriginal Peoples and Great Britain
29 1726 
  • 1726—1726: Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
  • 1726—1726: First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
  • 1726—1726: First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
    Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
30 1727 
  • 1727—1727: Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
  • 1727—1727: Board of Manufactoring established in Scotland
    11th June George I died - George II Hanover becomes king
  • 1727—1760: King George II
    King George II ( 1727 - 1760 ) {\n}{\n}1727 - George succeeds his father, George I.{\n}1732 - A royal charter is granted for the founding of Georgia in America.{\n}1737 - Death of George's wife, Queen Caroline.{\n}1738 - John and Charles Wesley start the
  • 11 Jun 1727—11 Jun 1727: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
  • 6 Nov 1727—25 Oct 1760: George II
    House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg
31 1729 
  • 1729—1729: Methodists begin in Oxford
  • 9 Nov 1729—9 Nov 1729: Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain - Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
32 1730 
  • 1730—1730: Irish famine
  • 1730—1750: Rococo Period (Art and Antiques)
33 1731 
  • 1731—1731: Invention of sextant by John Hadley
  • 1731—1731: Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
  • 1731—1731: Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull
    Invention of sextant by John Hadley
34 1732 
  • 1732—1732: Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls
  • 7 Dec 1732—7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
35 1733 
  • 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
  • 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
  • 1733—1733: Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine - Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
  • 1733—1733: Excise crisis; Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine
    Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax{\n}Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
  • 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle
36 1734 
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory published
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory
37 1737 
  • 1737—1737: Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
38 1738 
  • 1738—1738: Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers
    John Wesley has his conversion experience
  • 24 May 1738—24 May 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
39 1739 
  • 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
  • 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
  • 1739—1739: Last French-rule census
  • 7 Apr 1739—7 Apr 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
  • 23 Oct 1739—23 Oct 1739: War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain