King George II

Standard Name: George II, King

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Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
The omission was itself a political statement: the epilogue is a poem in praise of the then German prince who in due course became George II , which also dwells on recent politically-caused friction between...
politics Mary Caesar
In 1720 MC 's husband was arguing that a Stuart restoration could not be accomplished, and ought not to be attempted, without foreign aid. By March 1722, however, the planning stage of the Atterbury plot...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
The title-page quotes Guarini . It comments on various political and topical issues, such as the estrangement between George I and the Prince of Wales and a plan for founding a girls' school (on both...
Dedications Elizabeth Boyd
EB published with her name Verses most humbly inscrib'd to His Majesty King George IId. on his Birth-Day.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
EB published an anonymous pamphlet containing her two poems on George II 's victory at the battle of Dettingen on 16 June.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Other Life Event Mary Barber
Charged with scandalising and vilifying the king and government (George II and Sir Robert Walpole ), she was out on bail on 2 February. The accusation (for which the penalty ranged from a fine...
Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's History of Genghizcan the Great, translated from the French of François Pétis de la Croix , appeared in 1722, dedicated to the Prince of Wales . Both Debbie Welham and Eighteenth-Century Collections...

Timeline

1 February 1749: The Behn-Southerne play of Oroonoko had the...

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1 February 1749

The Behn -Southerne play of Oroonoko had the single most important performance . . . in its long history—
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Oroonoko</span&gt”;. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, pp. 47-66.
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watched by two Africans who had shared the hero's fate of betrayal into slavery.

1 May 1749: Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by...

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1 May 1749

Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by appearing at a masquerade in the character of Iphigenia, in a dress so transparent that she was as good as naked.

January 1750: English roads and streets were hotbeds of...

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January 1750

English roads and streets were hotbeds of crime, said Horace Walpole , because of destitute disbanded soldiers and sailors.

June 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost...

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June 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia lost half his army (30,000 of his best troops), at Kolin in Bohemia.

25 October 1760: King George II died suddenly of a heart attack;...

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25 October 1760

King George II died suddenly of a heart attack; his grandson George III assumed the throne.

1772: The Royal Marriages Act made it illegal for...

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1772

The Royal Marriages Act made it illegal for any descendant of George II to marry without the king's permission.

1827: Henry Hallam published The Constitutional...

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1827

Henry Hallam published The Constitutional History of England, his influential history extending to the death of George II .

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