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Revision as of 06:09, 14 March 2009
(Sources: 1700-1999 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 pages 977 and 1005)
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Eighteenth century
1707 Act of Union - with Scotland.
1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
1714 Hanoverian succession.
George I (1714-27)
1727 Geoge II (1727-1760)
1715 First Jacobite Rising
1739-48 War of Jenkins Ear - with Spain.
1744-8 War of the Austrian Succession.
1745 Second Jacobite Rising - "the '45"
1746 Battle of Culloden.
1756-63 Seven Years War - acquisition of India and Canada.
1760 George III (1760-1820).
1776-81 War of American Independence - the creation of the United States of America.
1787 Kingdom of Ireland granted autonomy.
1793-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
Nineteenth century
1801 Act of Union - with Ireland.
1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
1815 Battle of Waterloo.
1820 George IV (1820-30).
1830 William IV (1830-37).
1837 Queen Victoria (1837-1901)/
1845-50 Irish Famine.
1846 Repeal of Corn Laws.
1833-36 Crimean War.
1857-58 Indian Mutiny.
1898 Battle of Omdurman
1899-1902 Boer War.