Timeline of Masonry

1390 – Regius Poem

1717 – GL of England

1730 – First American Lodge

1738 – Papal Bull

1751 – Second GL in England

	In 1751 a second Grand Lodge was organized in England.  After organizing the Premier Grand Lodge, some changes, improvements and innovations were made.  Members of unaffiliated Lodges were concerned that these changes did not reflect the same Masonry as they had always enjoyed, and they determined that they would preserve their “True” Masonry.
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	So, they also formed a Grand Lodge, calling themselves “Ancients” and referring to those “other guys” as “Moderns”.
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	In 1751, after much discussion, they merged with their Brethren, to form the United Grand Lodges of England.