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 Drake home from trip round world |
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1580 |
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| Mary Queen of Scots beheaded |
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1587 |
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| Drake singes king's beard |
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1587 |
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| Spanish Armada defeated |
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1588 |
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| Letter from Drake describing the Armada campaign
National Archives, Kew
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| Elizabeth is depicted in a legal document |
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1590 |
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| Illuminated 'plea roll' portrait of Elizabeth I
National Archives, Kew
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| Shakespeare shows his paces with Richard III |
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1592 |
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| Elizabeth writes her last known letter |
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1603 |
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| The last known letter of Elizabeth I, 1603
National Archives, Kew
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 Queen Elizabeth dies in Richmond Palace |
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1603 |
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| Shakespeare features in a list of actors |
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c. 1604 |
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| List of the King's Men in 1604, including Shakespeare
National Archives, Kew
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| Gunpowder Plot damages Catholic cause |
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1605 |
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| Confession of Guy Fawkes in 1605
National Archives, Kew
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| Globe burns during Shakespeare's last play |
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1613 |
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c. 1616 |
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| Shakespeare's Will
National Archives, Kew
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| Milton's Lycidas |
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1637 |
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| Milton sues to recover a debt |
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c. 1654 |
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| Inventory of a gentleman taken to court by John Milton, 1654
National Archives, Kew
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| £10 for Paradise Lost |
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1667 |
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| Defoe petitions to avoid a gaol sentence |
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c. 1703 |
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| Letter from Daniel Defoe in 1703
National Archives, Kew
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| Crusoe meets Man Friday |
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1719 |
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| Burlington puts in design for Houses of Parliament |
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c. 1733 |
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| Design by Burlington for new Houses of Parliament in 1733
National Archives, Kew
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| Dick Turpin in tangle with the law |
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c. 1739 |
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| Indictment of Dick Turpin for stealing a black mare in 1739
National Archives, Kew
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| Dick Turpin hanged in York |
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1739 |
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| Captain Cook sails for Pacific |
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1768 |
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| Letter from Captain Cook in preparation for his first voyage
National Archives, Kew
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| Nelson dies at Trafalgar |
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1805 |
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| The boat carrying Nelson's coffin
National Archives, Kew
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| Sense and Sensibility |
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1811 |
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c. 1817 |
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1817 |
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| Jane Austen's will
National Archives, Kew
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| 18-year-old girl on British throne |
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1837 |
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| Victoria marries Albert |
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1840 |
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| Income tax reintroduced in Britain |
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c. 1842 |
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| Victoria and Albert pay income tax in a Punch cartoon of 1842
National Archives, Kew
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| Albert supports Great Exhibition |
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c. 1849 |
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| Letter from Prince Albert in 1849, proposing the Great Exhibition
National Archives, Kew
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| Six million visitors to Great Exhibition |
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1851 |
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| The ten yearly census is taken |
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c. 1851 |
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| Queen Victoria's census return at Buckingham Palace in 1851
National Archives, Kew
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| Great Expectations |
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1861 |
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| Albert dies of typhoid |
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1861 |
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| Dickens writes to the prime minister |
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| Letter from Charles Dickens to Lord Palmerston in 1862
National Archives, Kew
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