Which "Mariner of York" is the hero of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel of "Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures"?

The 1683 Rye House Plot aimed to assassinate which "Merry Monarch" of England? A 1693 charter established the Virginia college named for which royal duo? A 16th-century Japanese village is the main setting for which 1954 Akira Kurosawa classic? Alexander Pope's 1711 "Essay on Criticism" warned that "fools rush in where angels" do what? A 1725 notebook of compositions by which Baroque composer bears the name of his wife Anna Magdalena? In 1737 many people died in which city, then soon to become India's capital, from an earthquake or a cyclone? In 1759 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease on a brewery at St. James's Gate in which city? Which 1765 British act required colonists to house British soldiers?