RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
18th Century AD
1700 AD William the Duke of Gloucester, who was only 11 years old, died, who had been the Ascendancy's next chosen non - Catholic heir apparent to the English monarchy, being the only surviving child of George the Prince of Denmark and Anne the Ascendancy Episcopalian reared second daughter of James 11 the previous Catholic Stewart King of England, and the next in line was either James 11 the previous exiled Catholic Stewart King, or his son, James Francis Edward Stewart (The Old Pretender) who were both Catholic so the next day the Ascendancy English Parliament passed the "Act of Settlement" to ensure eternal future non - Catholic succession to the English monarchy and that no Catholic could ascend the English throne or that any member of the Royal family was to even marry one.
1701 AD James 11 the previous Catholic Stewart King of England, died at Saint Germain - en - Laye in France and was interred in Paris.
1702 AD William of Orange the Dutch Ascendancy English King, fell off his horse and died of pneumonia.
March: Anne the second non - Catholic daughter of James 11 the previous Catholic Stewart King of England was now to be installed as the new Ascendancy English Queen until 1714 AD to ensure the Ascendancy non - Catholic succession to the English monarchy, and she installed her husband, George, as the Lord High Admiral in charge of the Navy, and John Churchill / Lord Marlborough was given control of the English Military forces.
The War of the Spanish succession began early on in Anne's reign with the English Ascendancy Parliament supporting the Archduke Charles against Maria Therese.
1703 AD An Act of Security was passed in Scotland.
1704 AD The Alien Act was passed in England.
1705 AD Anne, the Stewart Ascendancy Queen of England created her second cousin, George Ludwig who was a German Hanoverian who would become German George 1st, who was the son of Sophia a citizen of England, and gave him English titles and his son, George Augustus Ludwig, who would become German George 11 the second Hanoverian King of Britain, married Margravine Caroline of Brandenburg - Ansbach this year.
1706 AD Joseph Mah the Vicar of St. Solomon's parish at Vannes collected Celtic Breton traditions.
1707AD May 1st: After many months of arguments, bribery, granted positions and English Government "Placemen," the English Ascendancy Parliament was to gain control over the numbers in the Scottish Parliament also, wherein only 220 members had the right to vote in the whole of Scotland, and through other various means, including outright blatant Bribery, the necessary numbers were secured and an Act of Immoral Union was instituted between both Scotland and England, and Wales was then merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. (To ensure no further opposition the Church of Scotland was allowed to retain their separate Presbyterian religion.)
While the Conservative Tories now supported the Ascendancy British monarchy and the Ascendancy Church of England, on the other hand the Conservative Whigs were a little bit more Liberal as they wanted a limited monarchy, and toleration of religious dissenters. Sarah Churchill / Duchess of Marlborough who had great influence over Anne the English Stewart Queen had previously persuaded her to support William of Orange instead of her father, James 11 the previous Catholic King of England at the time, and she also promoted the Whig Party position to her, but she was to eventually go too far, and along with her husband, John Churchill / Lord Marlborough they were to be dismissed from her favour and her court in 1711 AD.
The Scots wanted James Francis Edward Stuart / The Old Pretender to be the rightful one to succeed to the monarchy, while the English Parliament wanted Sophia, the Electress of Hanover.
1708 AD George the Prince of Denmark, died and Anne was to continue to rule on alone in England as the Ascendancy monarch in Britain.
1710 AD The Conservative Tories won the election in England, and at first attempted to bring about peace with Spain, but they then changed their minds, so Anne was to create 12 new Peers in 1712 AD to outnumber the Conservative Tories in the unelected House of Lords and peace would be finally declared.
1712 AD Lay patronage was restored in the Scottish Presbyterian Church against overall Scottish opinion.
1714 AD Anne, the last non - Catholic Stewart Queen of Britain, died from gout, and was interred in Westminster Abbey, and the 56 Catholic genuine successors who had a much greater claim to the British Monarchy were to be passed over, to ensure that an Ascendancy non - Catholic monarch was retained in England.
October: George Ludwig, the 54 year old German Hanoverian son of Ernest Augustus Ludwig the Duke of Brunswick - Luneburg, and Sophia, a grand - daughter of James 1st, became German George 1st the Ascendancy Hanoverian King of Britain until 1727 AD and his Hanoverian son, German George Augustus Ludwig was created the Prince of Wales who eventually was to become engaged in political intrigue against his father, as there was only contempt between them, until finally his father was to have him arrested and banished from St. James Palace altogether and also excluded him from all public ceremonies. Undaunted German George Augustus then set himself up in Leicester House, where he was an ally of Sir Robert Walpole the Conservative Whig Party leader, who was to become the most powerful politician in England, who was then to change sides and join in with German George 1st, which upset his son, German George Augustus Ludwig no end.
1715 AD The Clansmen in the Highlands of Scotland rallied to support the Jacobite / James 11 / 111 Rebellion this year in Scotland and the north of England in the Battle of Preston in an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart (The Old Pretender) who was a Catholic and in reality the rightful Stewart King of Scotland, on the throne of England, but they were defeated, and instead he was destined to spend his life in exile in Rome.
1716 AD The Septennial Act was passed in the Westminster Parliament in Britain, which extended its life from 3 to 7 years.
1718 AD Britain declared War on Spain again.
1720 AD Francis Atterbury's plot occurred to also restore the Stewarts to the English throne.
1721 AD Sir Robert Walpole was to become the Ascendancy Conservative Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain in England until 1742 AD.
1724 AD Jonathon Swift began the publication of his Drapier's Letters in Ireland admonishing the British Government's treatment of the population in Ireland.
1727 AD June: German George 1st Ludwig the 66 year old Hanoverian King of England, died of a stroke in Hamburg, Germany and was interred there.
October: German George Augustus Ludwig, his son, whose mother was his cousin, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, became German George 11 the new Ascendancy Hanoverian King of Britain until 1760 AD, and against all expectations he re - engaged Sir Robert Walpole as his Prime Minister and German George 11 too was to have dissention with his own son, Friedrich Ludwig who was now appointed the new German Hanoverian Prince of Wales.
Britain declared declared War on Spain again. First Indemnity Act was passed in Britain for non - Conformists in England.
1729
1736 AD Porteous riots occurred in Edinburgh in Scotland.
1737 AD German George 11 the Hanoverian King of Britain not only also banished his son, Friedrich, but also his wife from his court.
1738 AD May 24th: John Wesley founded the Methodists / Holy Club with his brother, George and George Whitefield of Methodical Study and Devotion.
1739 AD German George 11 the Hanoverian King of England now personally declared War on Spain again, against all advice, which later progressed into the War of the Austrian Succession in which Maria Therese was to become the Archduchess of Austria, while German George 11's main objective had been to mainly protect his own German possessions.
1742 AD Sir Robert Walpole the British Whig Prime Minister was out of office and the Earl of Wilmington was in as the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minster of Great Britain until 1743 AD.
1743 AD German George 11 the Hanoverian King of England led an army in a battle at Dettingen, and the French then supported the genuine Jacobite claim to the English monarchy for Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie) the Catholic son of the Old Pretender James 111. Henry Pelham became the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain until 1754 AD.
1744 France and Britain were also once again at War.
1745 AD The Jacobite Rebellion occurred in Britain after Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived in Scotland, where he was supported by Scottish forces successfully in the Battle of Prestonpans.
1746 AD Bonnie Prince Charlie was also successful in the Battle of Falkirk, and although at first he was to be quite successful, due to dissension in his ranks led by Murray, he was to be eventually defeated in the Battle of Culloden, and the Scottish Highland Clans were broken up and their Gaelic tartans prohibited under the English Clothing Act and the Celtic Highland Chiefs were deprived of their rights and the feudal system was introduced to abolish their Gaelic collective kinship ownership of land.
1747 - 1782 AD The British Clothing Act was "officially" implemented to ban the tartan / Gael Breccan / Feile (speckled cloth) in the Scottish Highlands and the Clann leaders were also banned by the Britsh Government and the Clann members were now only land holders as their territories in the Highlands of Scotland were no longer Clann lands.
1748 AD The War of Austrian Succession came to an end, and Maria Therese became the Archduchess of Austria.
1750 AD The "Clearances" of the Gaelic Highlands of Scotland was begun and a Bill was also passed for the "Prohibition of Colonial Manufacturers" in the Westminster Parliament.
1751 AD German George 11's son, Friedrich Ludwig, the Hanoverian Prince of Wales, died, and his son, German George William Frederick Ludwig whose mother was Augusta of Saxe - Gotha, became the new Prince of Wales who was the first German Hanoverian to be born in England and actually speak English and he was now to be the Ascendancy's non - Catholic heir apparent.
1752 AD Britain changed from the Julian Calender to the Gregorian Calender, and as a result lost 11 days from September 2nd to the 14th.
1753 AD Charles O Connor in Ireland called for the preservation of the Celtic Gaelic Irish language.
1754 AD
1756 AD The Duke of Devonshire and William Pitt - the Elder / Later the Earl of Chatham, formed the new Conservative British Government until 1757 AD and declared the 7 year War on France.
1757 AD The Duke of Newcastle became the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain again until 1762 AD.
The Irish Patriot movement was formed in Ireland for Ireland to run her own Irish Parliament and Irish Affairs.
James Mac Pherson published Celtic Gaelic Ossian poetry from alleged ancient Gaelic manuscripts, which rekindled Celtic Gaelic traditions.
1760 AD German George 11, the 76 year old second German Hanoverian King of Great Britain, died from an aneurysm, and was interred in Westminster Abbey and and his grandson, German George 111 / William Frederick, the eldest son of Frederick the previous Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe - Gotha became the new Ascendancy German Hanoverian King of Great Britain until 1820 AD and married Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg - Strelitz and he was to favour the Conservative Tories upsetting the more LIberal Conservative Whigs.
1761 AD William Pitt - the Elder / 1st Earl of Chatham was now out as the British Ascendancy Conservative Prime Minister ?
1762 AD The Earl of Bute becomes the new British Ascendancy Conservative Tory Prime Minister of Great Britain until 1763 AD. Britain declared War on Spain again.
1763 AD German George 111 Ludwig the Hanoverian King of Great Britain limited the westward expansion of the Colony in America creating dissension there.
The Earl of Bute resigned as the British Tory Prime Minister and George Granville was in as the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain until 1765 AD.
The "Whiteboys" outbreak occurred in Ireland over the Land Lord's treatment of the tenant farmers and their families on their Estates.
Combined British and German Hanoverian forces defeated the French, and Britain gained Canada.
Theobold Wolfe Tone who was to be an educated non - Catholic and become the founder of Irish Republicanism was born in Dublin.
1764 AD John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for attacking the German British monarchy.
1765 AD The Marqess of Rockingham was in as the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain until 1766 AD. The Stamp Act was passed in the British Westminster Parliament.
1766 AD William Pitt - the Elder / Earl of Chatham was in as the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain until 1768 AD. The Stamp Act was repealed, but the Declatory Act was passed declaring Britain's right to tax the Colonies.
1767 AD Tea and other Stamp Duties were imposed by the British Parliament on the population in Colonial America.
1768 AD The Duke of Grafton was in as the new Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain until 1770 AD.
1770 AD Lord North became the Ascendancy British Conservative Tory Prime Minister until 1782 AD and the British Government's Tea Tax was not withdrawn in the Colony in America and the Boston Massacre occurred.
1770 AD Sylvester O Halloran now also called for the preservation of the Celtic Gaelic Irish language.
1773 AD The Boston Tea Party conflict began in Colonial America against the impositions of German George 111 the Hanoverian King of Great Britain and Lord North.
1774 AD The Boston Tea Riot occurred and retaliatory legislation was introduced by the British Westminster Parliament.
1775 AD April : The American Colonial Revolution for Independence against the Conservative British Tory Government under Lord North and German George 111 and oppression began, and also Britain was soon to be in another War with France, and then Spain, who both planned an Armada to invade England.
1776 AD The British Parliament passed a Prohibition Act against Colonial American commerce.
1778 AD France and Colonial America make the Treaty of Paris and there was also a treaty agreed upon between Holland and Colonial America.
Saville's Catholic Relief Act passed in the British Parliament. William Pitt - the Elder the 1st Earl of Chatham, died.
1779 Spain declared War on Britain.
1780 AD From now on the Clanns in the Highlands of Scotland were to be physically removed from their territories by the British Tory Government and their Military forces. Holland declared War on Britain.
1781 AD General Cornwallis on behalf of the British Tory Government capitulates in York to the American Colonials. German George 111 the King of Great Britain offered to abdicate as the War in America also became worse, and he finally conceded defeat and agreed to peace negotiations.
1782 AD Seeking their opportunity the Anglo - Irish Ascendancy Parliament gained the right to make their own Irish laws in Ireland, when Henry Grattan produced the Declaration of Rights, but it was to be short lived.
The Marquess of Rockingham was in again as the Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain but only for this year and was replaced by the Earl of Shelburne as the Ascendancy Whig Prime Minister of Britain until 1783 AD.
1783 AD The Earl of Shelburne who had been the English Whig Prime Minister since 1782 and the British Imperial Parliament recognized the "independence" of the American Colonies in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution with 13 Independent States being recognized, and in the Treaty of Versailles between Britain, France and America, the English Imperial Government also gave up Florida to Spain. The Duke of Portland / Lord North and Fox now formed a Coalition British Imperial Government, which was only to last a short time as German George 111 the King of Britain eventually preferred William Pitt - the Younger a Tory / Conservative who was to win a majority to gain the new British Imperial Government in England until 1801 AD.
1785 AD George Augustus Frederick Ludwig the 21 year old second son of George 111 and Queen Charlotte married Maria Fitz Herbert who he had been forbidden to marry because she was a Catholic as this went against the Ascendancy Act of 1772, and his father refused to pay his debts unless he married his cousin, Caroline of Brunswick, which he did and which turned out to be a disaster and he then returned to Maria Fitz Herbert.
1788 AD German George 111 Ludwig the Hanoverian King of Great Britain suffered Dementia and his flamboyant son, Frederick Ludwig the Duke of York was touted to become the Regent, but German George 111 recovered.
The first motion was made in the British House of Commons for the abolition of the Slave Trade.
1789 AD July 14th: The Fall of the Bastille as the French Revolution began for "Fraternity, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," which frightened all of the monarchists in Europe.
1790 AD Bonny Prince Charlie's widow at this time was the Countess of Albany.
THe Declaration of the Rights of Man.
1791 AD The United Irishmen Society was formed in Ireland by Theodore Wolfe Tone against the ongoing British Imperial oppression continuing in Ireland.
The future George 1V / Duke of Clarence the third son of George 111 also was to co - habit with Dorothea Bland an Irish actress / Mrs Jordan, and they produced 5 sons and 5 daughters whose were given the surname of Fitz Clarence.
1792 AD Edward Williams / Iolo Morgannwg promoted renewed interest in the Celtic bards in Wales.
"Society of the Friends of the People" was founded in Britain.
1793 AD Louis XV1 was executed and the British Imperial Government under William Pitt - the Younger declared War on France again.
The Irish Penal Laws were abolished in Ireland against the Old English / Anglo - Irish and the Irish, except for the right to vote, as they believed that Ireland was not actually Irish anymore although the majority who were 75% still of the population of Ireland did not exist legally under British Law .
1794 AD July: Due to his many malicious excesses during the French Revolution, Robespierre was beheaded in France.
The "Orange Society / Order"
was founded in Ireland.
1797 AD The French General Hoche was in Ireland.
1798 AD Theobold Wolfe Tone was the leader of the United Irishmen Society who were to rebel against the ongoing British Imperial oppression in Ireland. William Pitt - the Younger introduces an income tax in Britain.
1799 AD Repressive legislation was introduced in the British Westminster Parliament against any "combinations and corresponding societies."
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