1712 - 1715 (3 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1713 | - 1713: The Treaty of Utrecht is signed by Britain and France, thus concluding the War of the Spanish Succession
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| 2 | 1714 | - 1714: Death of Queen Anne at Kensington Palace. She is succeeded by her distant cousin, the Elector George of Hanover, as King George I. A new parliament is elected with a strong Whig majority, led by Charles Townshend and Robert Walpole
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| 3 | 1715 | - 1715: Thomas Fairchild produced the first artificial hybrid plant
- 1715: The Jacobite Rebellion begins in Scotland with the aim of overthrowing the Hanovarian succession and placing the "Old Pretender" - James II's son - on the throne. The rebellion is easily defeated
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