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1721 - 17301721 Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742) Bailey's Northern Directory 1722 Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland Knatchbull's Act, poor laws 1723 Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code –
people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching The Workhouse Act or Test – to get relief, a poor person has to enter
Workhouse 1725-1726 Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria 1726 First circulating library opened in Edinburgh Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison 1727 Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland June 11: George I dies – George II Hanover becomes king 1729 Methodists begin at Oxford 1730 Irish famine
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