| Year | 1719 |
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| Year Summary | Monarch is King George I. The <em>Jacobite rising of 1719</em> tried to restore the exiled James to the throne. The <em>Royal Academy of Music</em> is founded. Daniel Defoe publishes <em>Robinson Crusoe</em>, but at the time made it look like it was written by real person called Robinson Crusoe (it was fiction). Bank rate set at 5%, and it kept that figure for 100 years. |
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