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Great Britain · Politics / Whig Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1696–1728Date range
2Named people
3Places

Chronological records

1696

Robert Walpole Orford, 1st1696

Cambridge · Politics / Whig Party

Walpole matriculates at King's College, Cambridge

1727

William Pitt the Elder Chatham, 1st1727

Oxford · Politics / Whig Party

Enters as a gentleman commoner at Trinity College, Oxford

1728

William Pitt the Elder Chatham, 1st1728

Oxford · Politics / Whig Party

A violent attack of gout compels Pitt to leave Oxford University without finishing his degree

William Pitt the Elder Chatham, 1st1728

Utrecht · Politics / Whig Party

From 1728 to 1730 Pitt attends Utrecht University in the Dutch Republic

Names involved

Robert Walpole Orford, 1stWilliam Pitt the Elder Chatham, 1st

Provenance

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