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Georgian Timeline         Patty Baldwin          January 2019
The long period of British overseas expansion and domestic industrialisation from the Glorious Revolution until the accession of Queen Victoria from 1688 until 1837 is known as the Georgian period. It also witnessed the evolution of a new sort of village in Box, not wholly reliant on farming and rural occupations.
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Satirical illustrations of Georgian people from The New Statesman 
Box Timeline

1682 Sir George Speke died
1683 Francis Speke died: George Petty inherited Box
1697 Signpost Act encouraged mileposts
1706 Queen Anne at Kingsdown
1707 Rev George Miller (alias Millard) became vicar
1708 Charity School founded in church
1711 Dame Rachel Speke of Hazelbury gave a gift of money for a school to start In the Church
1713 Box Church Restored
1713 Turnpike at Old Jockey
1719 A plot of land next to the Church was donated and a new school was built which could accommodate schoolmaster and some boarders
1720 Webb was owner of Rudloe (Queen Anne reported to have stayed at Hazelbury)
1722 School in Springfield Cottages
1726 Northey family bought Hazelbury, Ashley and Ditteridge
1727 Box Poorhouse built, opened 1729
1729 20 acres of land were purchased with accumulated donations for a school on what is now the Bassetts and Fogleigh House
1737 Old Jockey House inn built
1753 John Poulter, Box Highwayman, arrested
1761 Road through centre of Box completed (now A4)
1766 Wilkes and Liberty riots
1767 Frogmore House, date of rebuilding
1770 Hangman's stile at Fiveways recorded
1773 Andrews' and Dury's first map
1784 Mail coach through centre of Box
1786 The valley around the pumping station in Middlehill was colonised by wealthy people seeking a solution to their illnesses in the medicinal waters. Spa house is the finest relic of this tiny boom.
1793 Spa House, Middlehill, built
1796 Death of George Mullins Senior, Charity Schoolmaster
1805 William Pitt, Prime Minister, at Shockerwick
1805 Somerset Coal Canal opened
1810 Quarryman's Arms became an inn
1825 Thomas Bowdler died
1834 Original Methodist church built
1834 The Poor Law Union; Box Workhouse ceased
1840 Devizes Road completed
National Timeline

1688 William of Orange invaded England; James II deposed
1689 Toleration Act for Dissenting worship in England
1689 War in North America against France
1690 Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
1694 Bank of England founded
1702 William III died; Queen Anne Stuart succeeded
1714 George I of Hanover succeeds Queen Anne
1721 Sir Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister
1727 George I died, succeeded by George II
1739 Britain declares war on Spain
1742 Handel's Messiah
1743 George II last British monarch to command army
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated at Culloden
1756 The Seven Year War with France began
1757 First canal in Britain
1759 James Wolfe captured Quebec, Canada became British
1759 Robert Clive brings India under British rule
1760 George III succeeds his grandfather George II
1769 James Cook landed in New Zealand
1770 Cook landed in Botany Bay, Australia
1771 Factory Age started with Britain's first cotton mill
1773 Boston Tea Party
1776 America declared independence July 4
1776 Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations
1779 First cast iron bridge at Ironbridge
1780s Industrial Revolution begins
1783 Arkwright's steam-powered cotton mill
1787 First fleet of convicts sails to Australia
1788 First edition of The Times of London is published
1789 French Revolution started 14 July
1793 Britain went to war with France
1796 Edward Jenner invented small pox vaccination
1801 Act of Union creates the United Kingdom
1804 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive
1805 Lord Nelson defeated Napoleon at Trafalgar
1807 Britain abolishes the slave trade
1815 Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
1820 George III died, succeeded by son George IV
1825 First steam locomotive passenger service
1830 George IV died, succeeded by his brother William IV
1832 Great Reform Act passed
1833 Factory Act restricted work hours
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