1703
| 1703 • July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing his politically satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) (his release is granted in mid-November). |
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1733
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| 1733 • The first Freemasons lodge opens in what will become the United States of America. |
1791
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| 1791 • The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. |