English East India Company,
founded 1599
Coffee Houses, first opened 1652
Chocolate Shops, first opened 1657
The Royal Society, founded 1660
Vauxhall Gardens,
opened 1661
Drury Lane Theater, founded 1663
Chelsea Hospital, founded 1692
Bank of England, founded 1694
Bank of Scotland, founded
1695
London Stock Exchange, founded 1698
Society for the Promoting of Christian
Knowledge, founded 1698
Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel,
founded 1701
Royal Ascot,
begun
1711
The White Horse Pub,
London, c. 1712-present day
Boxing Champion of England, begun 1719
The Racing Calendar, started 1727
Covent Garden, Royal Opera House, opened 1732
Ranelagh Gardens, opened 1742
Sotheby's Auction House,
founded 1744
Bow Street Runners, founded
1748
The British Museum, founded 1753
Broadwood Piano Makers, founded
1753
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures & Commerce, founded 1754
Axminster Carpet Company, founded 1755
[See also The History of Carpet
page]
Wedgwood China Company,
founded 1760
Brooks's Club, founded 1764
Almack's Assembly
Rooms, first opened 1765
Tattersall's Horse Auction Yard, opened 1766
Christies' Auction House, founded
1766
The Royal Academy, founded 1768
Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, begun
as
a riding school 1768
Bass Ale, founded 1777
Royal Society of Edinburgh, founded 1783
The Royal Mail Coach System, begun
1784 Photos of Royal Mail Coach
The Times, founded 1785
Belfast Royal
Academy, founded 1785
Phillips Auctioneers, founded 1796
Cadbury Limited, founded
1824
The Windsor Castle Inn/Pub,
founded 1828
Inoculation for small pox
Restoration Clothing
gibbetting
indentured or bonded
servants {see the note on this page}
wrecking
Boxing Day
ballet
opera on opera
dress, c. 1790s
tea drinking
boxing
bear-baiting
cock-fighting
gaming hells
fox hunting
horse racing
tooth-drawer
dueling on French dueling
coaching inns A Scottish
Coaching Inn
azaleas
rhododendrons
camellias
masquerades
microscopes
British Food
plum pudding
bubble and
squeak
syllabub
wigs
corsets
pineapples
wassailing
Morris Dancing
Candlemas
Plough Monday
Shrove Tuesday
Michaelmas
Swan Upping
Robert Boyle (1627-1691),
chemist
Christopher Wren
(1632-1723),architect [see also this
site and this one too on one of his
buildings]
Claude Duval (1643-70), highwayman [see this
site]
William Hogarth (1679-1764), painter
George Frederick Handel
(1685-1759), composer
Antonio "Canaletto" Canal (1697-1768), painter
Dick Turpin (1706-39), highwayman [see this
site]
Thomas Arne (1710-1778), songwriter
David Garrick (1717-1779), actor
Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), furniture maker
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), painter
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), scientist
George Romney (1734-1802), painter
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), musician
Angelica Kauffman (1740-1807), painter
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), writer
Elisabeth Vignee Le Brun (1755-1842),
painter [See also this
site]
Sarah Kemble Siddons (1755-1831), actress
James Gillray (1757-1815), caricaturist
Auguste Vestris (1760-1842),dancer essay on one of his famous
students
Sir Edmund Hoyle (d. 1769), card player and gamester