Timeline: Past and Present Company

	Date	Event(s)
1	1711	Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London 11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
2	1712	Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853) Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham) Toleration Act passed first relief to non-Anglicans
3	1713	By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
4	1714	Longitude Act: prize of Â£20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer). Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism 1 Aug 1714: Queen Anne Stuart dies George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
5	1715	Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen') 1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
6	1716	The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911) Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
7	1717	First Masonic Lodge opens in London Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings

William RAINS 1711 - 1717