Other works that are thought to anticipate his novelistic career include: The Family Instructor ( 1715 ), an immensely successful conduct manual on religious duty ; Minutes of the Negotiations of Monsr.

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

Image: Rosalba_Carriera_Self-portrait. jpg | Rosalba Carriera, Self-portrait holding a portrait of her sister, 1715, pastel on paper ; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

; Jacobite factions seeking a Stuart restoration remained strong ; they instigated a revolt in 1715 – 1716.

An outbreak of bubonic plague in 1710 killed about 35, 000 residents ; devastating fires occurred in 1715, 1737, 1741, 1748, and 1749.

Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition ; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death in 1715, Philip announced he would claim the French crown if the infant Louis XV died and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Italy, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1717.

His family was split during the War of the Spanish Succession and was for many years under house arrest in Austria ; only in 1715 did the family become re-united.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study medicine at Wittenberg ; but he was idle and dissipated, had no taste for the profession chosen for him, and came to a complete rupture with his family.

Between 1715 – the year of Louis's death – and 1723, power transferred to the Régence ; the regent, Philippe d ' Orléans, maintained the prison but the absolutist rigour of Louis XIV's system began to weaken somewhat.

* Victor Amadeus of Savoy ( 1699 – 1715 ) died unmarried ;

In the three years from 1713 to 1715 he produced three novels -- Effets surprenants de la sympathie ; La Voiture embourbée, and a book which had three titles -- Pharsamon, Les Folies romanesques, and Le Don Quichotte moderne.

Philippe d ' Orléans ( Philippe Charles ; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723 ) was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723.

St. David's Church ( 1715 )- the oldest non-Quaker church in Delaware County, founded by Welsh Anglicans ; burial place of General " Mad " Anthony Wayne, located on S. Valley Forge Road in the very corner of the Township.

* Margaret Charnock, wife of Richard Brooke ( 1640 – 1715 ), 1648 / 53-1715 ;

* Peter Brooke, son ( 1673 – 1721 ), 1715 – 21 ;

Elisabeth and Philip married on 24 December 1714 ; she quickly proved a domineering consort, and influenced King Philip to make Cardinal Giulio Alberoni the Prime Minister of Spain in 1715.

Already a successful opera composer, in 1715 Porpora was appointed at the Conservatory of S. Onofrio, where his pupils included such well-known castrati as Giuseppe Appiani, Felice Salimbeni, and Gaetano Majorano ( known as Caffarelli ), as well as distinguished female singers such as Regina Mingotti and Vittoria Tesi ; Farinelli may well have studied with him privately.

Nicolas Malebranche ; ( 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715 ) was a French Oratorian and rationalist philosopher.

* William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun ( 1654 – 1715 ): born in Philorth ; voted against ratifying the Treaty of Union.

The next year ( 21 January 1715 ), Johanna gave birth to a son, called August Adolf after his grandfather ; the child only lived a few hours.

* James Lee ( 1715 – 1795 ) – nurseryman ; co-founder of Lee and Kennedy

The impresario Count Francesco Zambeccari wrote of his performance in Naples in 1715: " Senesino continues to comport himself badly enough ; he stands like a statue, and when occasionally he does make a gesture, he makes one directly the opposite of what is wanted ".

In his comment on these laws Steele sounds all the usual notes of current Whig propaganda, ranging from a criticism of the Tory peace to an attack on the dismissal of Marlborough ; ;

He won election to the state legislature ; though he ran as a Whig, many Democrats favored him over a more powerful Whig opponent.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Great emphasis also was placed on speech and debate ; Madison helped found the American Whig – Cliosophic Society, in direct competition to fellow student Aaron Burr's Cliosophic Society.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

In general, commercial and manufacturing towns and cities voted Whig, save for strongly Democratic precincts in Irish Catholic and German immigrant communities ; the Democrats often sharpened their appeal to the poor by ridiculing the Whigs ' aristocratic pretensions.

In July 1850, Taylor died ; Vice President Millard Fillmore, a long-time Whig, became the President, and he helped push the Compromise through Congress in the hopes of ending the controversies over slavery.

This was the high tide of its prosperity ; in New York in 1833 the organization was moribund, and its members gradually united with the National Republicans and other opponents of Jacksonian democracy in forming the Whig Party.

After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".

The choice of Taylor was made almost out of desperation ; he was not clearly committed to Whig principles, but he was popular for leading the war effort.

After the 1852 election the Whig Party quickly collapsed, and the members of the declining party failed to nominate a candidate for the next presidential race ; it was soon replaced as the Democratic Party's primary opposition by the new Republican Party.

1852 would be the last time the Whig Party would nominate a candidate for president ; after the election the party fell apart and ceased to exist, principally due to regional divisions caused by the slavery issue.

* H. T. Dickinson ; Walpole and the Whig Supremacy.

* Williams, Basil, and C. H. Stuart ; The Whig Supremacy, 1714 – 1760, 1962 online edition

Lord Melbourne had been Victoria's confidant for several years, and many of the higher posts in Victoria's household were held by the wives and female relatives of Whigs ; there was some feeling that Victoria had allowed herself to be too closely associated with the Whig party.

When the bill was returned to the House the Senate bill prevailed ; every Northern Whig still supported the proviso, but 22 northern Democrats voted with the South.

Roundhead remained in use to describe those with republican tendencies up until the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 ; the term was then superseded by Whig, initially another term with pejorative connotations.

Lord Rockingham died only three months after coming to power ; he was succeeded by another Whig, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

Cayley served for the Whig party as Member of Parliament for Scarborough from 1832 to 1835, and in 1838 helped found the UK's first Polytechnic Institute ; the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now University of Westminster ), serving as its chairman for many years.

Thatcher once told Friedrich Hayek: " I know you want me to become a Whig ; no, I am a Tory ".