History of England/Timelines

(Sources: 1700-1999 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 pages 977 and 1005) Template:TOC-right

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.

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.