GEORGE II

1727  –  1743

1727  –  1743

Robert Walpole  -  William Pitt the Elder  -  Agrarian Revolution (Viscount Townshend)

War of the Polish Succession  -  Treaty of Vienna (Augustus III)  -  Georgia

(James Oglethorpe)  -  The Porteus Riots (Edinburgh)  -  The War of Jenkin’s Ear

(Admiral Edward Vernon)  -  Nadir Shah (Sack of Delhi)  -  War of Austrian Succession

(Charles VI & Pragmatic Sanction)  -  Battle of Dettingen  -  George Anson

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Carlus Linnaeus

(System of Nature)

Daniel Bernoulli

(Hydrodynamica)

Leonhard Euler

(Infinities)

John Singleton Copley

(Death of Chatham)

John Michael Rysbrack

(sculptor)

Louis François Roubiliac

(portrait of Handel)

François Boucher

(rococo artist)

Tiepolo (mural artist)

Jean Baptiste Chardin

(petit bourgeoisie)

William Hogarth

(Rake’s Progress)

Sir James Thornhill

(ceiling and mural)

Allan Ramsay

(portrait artist)

Antonio Canaletto

(Grand Tour)

Francesco Guardi

(veduta)

John Kay

(flying shuttle)

Thomas Coram

(foundling hospital)

Voltaire (rights of man)

Hume (Human Nature)

Methodism

(John & Charles Wesley)

George Whitefield

(American colonies)

François Quesnay

(Physiocrats)

George Frederick Handel

(The Messiah)

Johan Helmich Roman

(the Swedish Handel)

Maurice Greene

(Music Master)

Thomas Arne (Alfred)

Domenico Scarlatti

(sonatas)

Vitus Bering

(Bering Strait)

D’Anville

(Atlas Générale)

Cassini III

(survey of France)

William Stukeley (Stonehenge)

Alexander Pope

(The Dunciad)

John Arbuthnot (John Bull)

John Gay (Beggar’s Opera)

James Macpherson

(Ossian)

James Gibbs

(Book of Architecture)

1727  –  1743

1744  –  1760

1744  –  1760

King George’s War (North America and India)  -  Battle of Fontenoy  - Bonnie Prince

Charlie (’45 Rebellion)  -  Battle of Culloden (Flora Macdonald)  -  Ahmad Shah Durrani

(Afghanistan)  -  Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle  -  Siege of Arcot (Robert Clive)  -  Gregorian

Calendar (Britain)  -  Ch’ien-lung (Tibet)  -  Lisbon Earthquake  -  Black Hole, Calcutta

Seven Years’ War (Anglo-French Wars)  -  Battle of Plassey (India)  -  Frederick II

(Prussia) and Maria Theresa (Austria)  -  Battle of Quebec  -  Battle of Wandiwash

Pompeii & Herculaneum (Winckelmann)

Benjamin Franklin (bifocal lenses)

Benjamin Franklin (electricity)

Henry Fielding

(Tom Jones)

Samuel Richardson

(Clarissa)

Abbé Prévost

(Manon Lescaut)

Thomas Gray

(Elergy)

Edward Young

(Night Thoughts)

William Collins

(To Evening)

James Thomson

(The Seasons)

Samuel Johnson

(Dictionary)

Lord Chesterfield

(Letters)

Albrect von Haller

(neurology)

William Cheselden

(Anatomy of Bones)

James Lind

(Treatise on Scurvy)

John Pringle

(Army diseases)

Nicolas Lacaille

(southern skies)

Johann Tobias Mayer

(libration of the moon)

Thomas Wright

(Milky Way)

Capability Brown

(landscaped gardens)

William Kent

(interior designer)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

(Carceri d’invenzione)

Thomas Chippendale

(cabinet maker)

Jean François Oeben

(rococo style)

Benjamin West

(Death of James Wolfe)

Charles Montesquieu

(Spirit of the Laws)

Diderot (Age of Reason)