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Canaletto lives in England from 1746 | HISTORY OF PAINTING

Venetian sunset

Canaletto lives in England from 1746 to 1755, painting views of the Thames in London and of his aristocratic patrons' country seats. His practice of painting large topographical views is continued by his nephew, Bernardo...

Canaletto lives in England from 1746 | HISTORY OF ITALIAN ART

Venetian sunset

Canaletto lives in England from 1746 to 1755, painting views of the Thames in London and of his aristocratic patrons' country seats. His practice of painting large topographical views is continued by his nephew, Bernardo...

Voltaire travels to England, where he | HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Voltaire and the philosophes

Voltaire travels to England, where he is struck by a matter-of-fact frame of mind very different from the attitudes of France. In religion this results in Deism, an offshoot of the reasonable philosophy of John Locke; in...

Voltaire travels to England, where he | HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE

Voltaire and the philosophes

Voltaire travels to England, where he is struck by a matter-of-fact frame of mind very different from the attitudes of France. In religion this results in Deism, an offshoot of the reasonable philosophy of John Locke; in...

Cook sails from England in 1772 | HISTORY OF EXPLORATION

Voyages of Captain Cook

Cook sails from England in 1772 (now in the Resolution) and spends the three antarctic summers of 1772, 1773 and 1774 in a complete circumnavigation of the ice mass of the south pole - proving finally that there i...

Cook sails from England in 1772 | HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA

Voyages of Captain Cook

Cook sails from England in 1772 (now in the Resolution) and spends the three antarctic summers of 1772, 1773 and 1774 in a complete circumnavigation of the ice mass of the south pole - proving finally that there i...

Cook sails from England in 1772 | HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY

Voyages of Captain Cook

Cook sails from England in 1772 (now in the Resolution) and spends the three antarctic summers of 1772, 1773 and 1774 in a complete circumnavigation of the ice mass of the south pole - proving finally that there i...

William returns to England in September | THE WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE

James II in Ireland

William returns to England in September 1690. Ireland is now secure enough, and James II sufficiently weakened, for him to turn his attention once again to the continent - to confront his main enemy Louis XIV, on the bro...

William returns to England in September | HISTORY OF IRELAND

James II in Ireland

William returns to England in September 1690. Ireland is now secure enough, and James II sufficiently weakened, for him to turn his attention once again to the continent - to confront his main enemy Louis XIV, on the bro...

William returns to England in September | HISTORY OF ENGLAND

James II in Ireland

William returns to England in September 1690. Ireland is now secure enough, and James II sufficiently weakened, for him to turn his attention once again to the continent - to confront his main enemy Louis XIV, on the bro...

The Bank of England also becomes | HISTORY OF BANKING

National banks

The Bank of England also becomes the banker to other London banks, and through them to a much wider banking community. The London banks act as agents in the capital for the many small private banks which open around the...