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Prehistoric Britain (5000-55 BCE)
Roman Britain
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Norman
Medieval Britain
Reformation
Age of the Empire
Modern Britain |
1692 | The Glencoe Massacres |
| 1707 | The Act of Union unites the kingdoms of England and Scotland; Scotland's governmental power is transferred to London | |
| 1715 | Start of the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland | |
| 1721 | Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister | |
| 1746 | Bonne Prince Charlie is defeated at the Battle of Culloden | |
| 1752 | Gregorian calendar is adopted in Britain | |
| 1756 | Start of the Seven Year's War | |
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party; Construction of the world's first cast iron bridge over the River Severn | |
| 1775 | Beginning of the American War of Independence | |
| 1788 | King George III suffers his first episode of "madness," presumably the result of porphyria | |
| 1789 | Start of the French Revolution | |
| 1796 | Edward Jenner develops the first vaccination against smallpox | |
| 1800 | Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland creates the United Kingdom | |
| 1803 | Napoleonic Wars start; England declares war on France | |
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar in which Lord Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleets, but is killed in the conflict | |
| 1813 | Jane Austen completes Pride and Prejudice | |
| 1815 | Napoléon is defeated at Waterloo under the command of Lord Wellington | |
| 1818 | Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein | |
| 1821 | The Metropolitan Police force was established | |
| 1830 | First major cholera epidemic in Great Britain | |
| 1833 | Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire | |
| 1845 | Beginning of the severe Irish Potato Famine that kills more than one million people | |
| 1853 | Vaccination against smallpox becomes compulsory | |
| 1854 | Start of the Crimean War in which Florence Nightingale and battlefield nurses rise to fame | |
| 1863 | The London Underground opens | |
| 1868 | The last fully public hanging in Great Britain | |
| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebration | |
| 1888 | Jack the Ripper terrorizes the Whitechapel district in London | |
| 1899 | Beginning of the Boer War in South Africa |
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