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Elizabeth Markham

Elizabeth Markham

Female 1689 - 1734  (45 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
1666 
  • 1666—1689: Considerable religious unrest on Scotland (The Covenanteers)
    Covenanteers Rising at St. John's Town of Dalry
1680 
  • 1680—1770: Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)
1685 
  • 2 Jun 1685—13 Feb 1689: James II
    House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689
1689 
  • 1689—1689: Devonport naval dockyard established
  • 1689—1702: King William III and Queen Mary II
    King William III and Queen Mary II ( 1689 - 1702 ) {\n}{\n}1689 - Parliament draws up the Declaration of Right detailing the unconstitutional acts of James II. William and Mary become joint sovereigns.{\n}1689 - Bill of Rights is passed in Parliament.{\n}
  • 1689—1689: Deposed James VII and II flees to Ireland
    Defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1690){\n}Earliest Royal Dutch Chapel registers{\n}Seige of Londonderry{\n}Toleration Act for Protestant non-conformists{\n}Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland
  • 1689—1697: King William's War
    English Colonies vs France
  • 1689—1701: French - Five Nations Indian war
  • 13 Feb 1689—13 Feb 1689: William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne (only William, however, has regal power)
  • 12 Mar 1689—12 Mar 1689: Deposed James VII & II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
  • 24 May 1689—24 May 1689: Toleration Act passed for Protestant non-conformists
  • 27 Jul 1689—27 Jul 1689: Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland - Jacobites defeated Government troops but at high cost
  • 16 Dec 1689—16 Dec 1689: Bill of Rights passed by Parliament, ending King's divine right to raise taxes or wage war
  • 2 1689—28 Dec 1694: William III and Mary II
    House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
1690 
  • 1690—1690: The British capture Port-Royal
    Port-Royal is captured by the British. It will be renamed Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.
  • 1690—1690: Great Synagogue founded
    Presbyterian fonally established in Scotland{\n}Battle of the Boyne
  • 1690—1690: Port-Royal captured
    British capture Port-Royal and rename it to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  • 1690—1690: The Presbyterian Church is permanently restored and becomes the Church of Scotland.
  • 20 May 1690—20 May 1690: England passes Act of Grace, forgiving Roman Catholic followers of James II
10 1691 
  • 1691—1691: Earliest date in known German Lutheran registers
  • 1691—1691: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
11 1692 
  • 1692—1692: Land Tax introduced - originally designed as an annual tax on personal estate, public offices and land. For practical purposes, however, assessors tended to avoid assessing items of wealth other than landed property so that it became known as the Land Ta
  • 1692—1692: French intention to invade England came to nothing
  • 1692—1692: The Massacre of Glencoe
    Clan Campbell side with the king and murder members of the Clan McDonald (1691?)
  • 1692—1692: French intention to invade England came to naught
  • 13 Feb 1692—13 Feb 1692: The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and murders members of Clan McDonald
12 1693 
  • 1693—1693: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1693—1693: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 4 Aug 1693—4 Aug 1693: Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pierre P?rignon 's invention of Champagne
13 1694 
  • 1694—1694: National Debt came into effect in England
  • 1694—1694: Stamp Duties introduced into Britain from Holland
  • 1694—1694: Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
  • 1694—1694: Triennial Act, new Parliamentary elections every three years
  • 1694—1694: Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane (-1699)
  • 1694—1694: National Deb came into effect in England
    Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot){\n}Triennial Act
  • 1694—1699: Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane
  • 27 Jul 1694—27 Jul 1694: Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)
  • 12 1694—8 Mar 1702: William III
    House of Stuart (restored): Reigned alone after death of Mary II
14 1695 
  • 1695—1695: Freedom of Press in England granted
  • 1695—1695: Bank of Scotland founded
  • 1695—1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
  • 1695—1695: Start of Dissenters' lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish church - some were named 'Papist' and others 'Protestants'
  • 1695—1695: Freedom of the Press
    Bank of Scotland founded{\n}Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed in 1706){\n}Start of "Dissenters" lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish churc
  • 1695—1695: Census of Acadia
    Census of St. Jean River Acadians
15 1696 
  • 1696—1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
    Education Act passed by Scottish Parliament{\n}Window Tax (replaced Hearth Tax) increased in 1747; abolished in 1851)
16 1697 
  • 1697—1697: Treaty of Ryswick
  • 1697—1697: 2nd December - Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
  • 2 Dec 1697—2 Dec 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
17 1698 
  • 1698—1698: Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
  • 1698—1698: Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
  • 1698—1698: Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
  • 1698—1698: Invention of steam engine by Captain Thomas Savery
    Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama{\n}Duties (Taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
  • 1698—1698: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1698—1698: Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump
  • 4 Jan 1698—4 Jan 1698: Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
  • 14 Nov 1698—14 Nov 1698: Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
18 1700 
  • 1700—1700: Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
  • 1700—1700: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
19 1701 
  • 1701—1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
  • 1701—1701: Founding of Petitcodiac
  • 1701—1701: Act of Parliament bars Catholice from the British throne
  • 1701—1701: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1701—1701: Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
  • 23 May 1701—23 May 1701: After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd hanged in London
20 1702 
  • 1702—1702: 8th March - Anne Stuart becomes Queen
    11th March - First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735){\n}War of Spanish Succession (1702- 1713)
  • 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
  • 1702—1702: War of Spanish Succession
  • 8 Mar 1702—8 Mar 1702: Anne Stuart becomes Queen
  • 11 Mar 1702—11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
  • 3 Aug 1702—1 Aug 1714: Anne
    House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs
21 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)
22 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
23 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
24 1706 
  • 1706—1706: First evening newspaper The Evening Post' issued in London
25 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
26 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
27 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
28 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
29 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
30 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
31 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)
32 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).
33 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
34 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
35 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
36 1719 
  • 1719—1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
  • 1719—1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
37 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
38 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)
39 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
40 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
41 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
42 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
43 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
44 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
45 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
46 1730 
  • 1730—1730: Irish famine
  • 1730—1750: Rococo Period (Art and Antiques)
47 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
48 1732 
  • 1732—1732: Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls
  • 7 Dec 1732—7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
49 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
50 1734 
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory published
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory