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| YEAR |
MONARCH |
POLITICAL EVENTS, CONFLICTS AND PRIME MINISTERS |
SOCIAL HISTORY AND EPIDEMICS |
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES |
NOTABLE EVENTS |
| 1701 | Act of Settlement | Jethro Tull invents the seed drill | |||
| 1702 | Anne 8th March |
War of Spanish Succession starts | "The Daily Courant" published - first daily newspaper | ||
| 1703 | The Great Storm of 1703 | ||||
| 1704 | Battle of Blenheim | ||||
| 1705 | The Earl of Peterborough captures Barcelona | Newcomen invents first practical steam engine | |||
| 1706 | Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Ramilles | ||||
| 1707 | Act of Union | ||||
| 1708 | Capture of Minorca | Prince George of Denmark, Anne's husband, dies | |||
| 1709 | First piano built by Bartolommeo Cristofori in Florence | ||||
| 1713 | The Treaty of Utrecht | ||||
| 1714 | George I Elector of Hanover 1st August |
End of the War of Spanish Succession | Mercury thermometer invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit | ||
| 1715 | Jacobite Rebellion defeated | ||||
| 1716 | The Septennial Act (General Elections to be held every 7 years) | ||||
| 1718 | Thomas Lombe's silk spinning patent | ||||
| 1719 | Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" published | ||||
| 1720 | South Sea Bubble burst | ||||
| 1721 | Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1722 | Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year & Colonial Jack" published | ||||
| 1726 | "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift published | Death of Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I | |||
| 1727 | George II 11th June |
Death of Sir Isaac Newton | |||
| 1733 | Kay's flying shuttle | ||||
| 1736 | Witchcraft finally abolished as a crime | ||||
| 1737 | Death of Queen Caroline | ||||
| 1738 | Religion and the Clergy | ||||
| 1739 | War of Jenkins Ear | ||||
| 1740 | War of the Austrian Succession | ||||
| 1742 | Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington (Whig) | Henry Fielding publishes "Joseph Andrews" | Sheffield flatware (cutlery) developed by Thomas Boulsover | ||
| 1743 | Henry Pelham (Whig) | ||||
| 1744 | John Newbery first to publish Children's Literature "A Pretty Pocket Book" | ||||
| 1745 | 2nd Jacobite rebellion | ||||
| 1746 | Battle of Culloden | ||||
| 1747 | James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy | ||||
| 1748 | Tobias George Smollet publishes "The Adventures of Roderick Random" | ||||
| 1149 | Fielding publishes "Tom Jones" Samuel Johnson published poem "A Vanity of Human Wishes" |
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| 1750 | London earth tremors cause panic Samuel Johnson produces "The Rambler Essays" (1750-52) |
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| 1751 | Fielding publishes "Amelia" Tobias Smollet publishes "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" |
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| 1752 | Gregorian calendar introduced | ||||
| 1753 | Foundation of the British Museum | Marriage Act | |||
| 1754 | Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (Whig) | ||||
| 1755 | War with France | Samuel Johnson published "The Dictionary "(English) | |||
| 1756 | William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire (Whig) | Marine Society founded | |||
| 1756 to 1763 | Seven Years' War | ||||
| 1755 | Black Hole of Calcutta | ||||
| 1757 | Battle of Plassey | William Blake born | |||
| 1758 | Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (Whig) | ||||
| 1759 | Georg Friedrich Handel dies | ||||
| 1760 | George III 25th October |
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| 1762 | John Stuart, Earl of Bute (Tory) | Oliver Goldsmith's essay "The Citizen of the World or Letters from a Chinese Philospher" published | |||
| 1763 | George Grenville (Whig) | August hailstorms ruin Sussex harvest | |||
| 1764 | Oliver Goldsmith publishes "The Traveller" | ||||
| 1765 | Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham (Whig) | John Newbery prints "A history of Goody Two Shoes; Mother Goose's Melody" | |||
| 1766 | William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham (Whig) | "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith published | |||
| 1767 | Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton (Whig) | ||||
| 1768 | Royal Academy of Arts founded | Spinning Jenny | |||
| 1770 | Frederick North, Lord North (Tory) | Cook charts New South Wales Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn |
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| 1773 | Boston Tea Party | Oliver Goldsmith's play "She Stoops to Conquer" appears | |||
| 1774 | Discovery of oxygen by Joseph Priestley | ||||
| 1775 | American War of Independence | John Harrison's chronometer finally given prize by Parliament | James Watt develops improved steam engine | ||
| 1776 | Bridgewater canal completed | American Declaration of Independence | |||
| 1778 | First iron bridge built Bramah's flushing watercloset patented |
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| 1779 to 1783 | Siege of Gibraltar | ||||
| 1779 | Crompton's Mule | ||||
| 1780 | 4th Anglo-Dutch war | Gordon Riots in London | |||
| 1782 | Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham (Whig) William FitzMaurice, Earl of Shelburne (Whig) |
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| 1783 | William Bentinck, Duke of Portland (Tory) William Pitt the Younger (Tory) |
Britain recognises U.S. independence | |||
| 1784 | William Blake opens own print shop | Blake invents relief etching as a print/publishing form | |||
| 1785 | Separation of the Methodist Church from the Church of England | Cartwright's Power Loom | |||
| 1786 | Beginning of gas lighting | ||||
| 1787 | The Constitution (United States of America) declared | ||||
| 1788 | Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) dies in Rome Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet in Sydney Cove |
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| 1789 | French Revolution | ||||
| 1791 | Publication of "The Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine | The Board of Ordnance started mapping southern Britain | |||
| 1793 | War with France | Joseph Preistley discovered nitrous oxide (laughing gas) | |||
| 1794 | William Blake writes and prints "Songs of Innocence and Experience" | ||||
| 1796 to 1808 | Anglo-Spanish War | ||||
| 1796 | Grand Junction (Union) Canal opens Jenner develops smallpox vaccine |
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| 1798 | Nelson wins Battle of the Nile | Beethoven writes "Pathetique" | Beginning of Irish immigration to Canada |