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Year
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Historical
Events
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Celebrations,
Festivals and Events
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Links
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1605
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Gunpowder
Plot
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First
Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night) Celebrated
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1655
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Earliest
reference to the term festival in modern sense, "The Festival
of the Sons of the Clergy", an annual charity sermon, at St
Paul's Cathedral, London
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1655
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Plague
of London, 1655-1657
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1666
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Great
Fire of London
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1697
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Earliest
reference to an 11-a-side Cricket match, played in Sussex
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