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| 1660 |
| | | General George Monck marches south from Scotland to London, to intervene in England's unresolved political crisis | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart gathers support for the Forty-Five Rebellion on his way south from the Hebrides and reaches Edinburgh | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart marches as far south as Derby, but then turns back | |
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| 1759 |
| | | The Portuguese expel the Jesuits from Brazil, beginning a widespread reaction against the order in Catholic Europe | |
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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1809 |
| | | British commander Arthur Wellesley builds the lines of Torres Vedras, to defend the promontory leading south to Lisbon | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, inherits the throne of Portugal (as Pedro IV) but continues to rule from Brazil | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Pedro I abdicates in Brazil and returns to Europe to recover his Portuguese throne (as Pedro IV) | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola | |
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