 1660-Sam Pepys begins diary  1661-Louis XIV begins palace at Versailles  1665-Great Plauge  1666-Great Fire of London

 1668-John Dryden 1 st official poet laureate  1685-Begin reign of James II  1687-Newton publishes gravity  1689-English Bill of Rights  1695-End of prepublication censorship  1699-End of Turkish presence in Austria

 1702-Begin reign of Anne Stuart  1703-Peter began building St. Petersburg  1707-England and Scotland become Great Britian

 1707-Mughal empire becomes independent states  1709-Richard Steele begins periodical, The Tatler  Addison and Steele begin The Spectator  1714-Begin reign of George I

 1719-Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Cruesoe, considered 1 st novel in English  1721-Edo Tokyo becomes largest city  1721-Robert Walpole becomes 1 st political prime minister  1722-Saffavid Empire collapses  1722-Defoe publishes A Journal of the Plague Year

 1726-Johnathan Swift anonymously delivers Gilliver’s Travels  1727-Reign of George II begins  1736-Qian-long becomes emperor of China leading to prosperity  1740-Samuel Richardson publishes Pamela – first English novel  1740-Maria Theresa becomes queen of Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary  1746-Samuel Johnson signs contract preparing A Dictionary of the English Language

 1756-Fredrick the Great starts Seven Years War  1757-