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1714 | Queen Anne of England dies; succeeded by George Louis, elector of Hanover, as King George I |
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1715 | The First Jacobite uprising |
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1715 | First Parliament of George I opens |
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1715 | Jacobite rebellion in Scotland |
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1716 | Treaty of Westminster between England and the Emperor |
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1718 | Quadruple Alliance signed by France, the Empire, England, and Holland |
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1718 | England declares war on Spain |
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1719 | Ireland declared inseparable from England |
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1721 | Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister |
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1723 | Treaty of Charlottenburg between England and Prussia |
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1727 | George I dies, George II crowned |
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1729 | Treaty of Seville between France, Spain, and England |
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1731 | The infamous Rebecca Incident near Havanna Cuba sets the stage for the War of Jenkin's Ear |
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1731 | Treaty of Vienna between England, Holland, Spain, and the Holy Roman Emperor |
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1734 | Anglo-Russian trade agreement |
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1739 | War of Jenkins Ear begins
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1740 | War of the Austrian Succession |
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1742 | Peace of Berlin ends First Silesian War |
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1744 | King George's War (ends 1748) American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession GO ! |
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1744 | France declares war on England and on Maria Theresa |
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1744 | Second Silesian War begins |
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1745 | Jacobite Rebellion |
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1748 | 18 October - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends King George's War, restoring the status quo ante in the colonies; general recognition of Pragmatic Sanction and of Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor |
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1749 | Consolidation Act of British navy |
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1754 | The Seven Years (French and Indian) War unofficially begins |
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1755 | The French and Indian War officially begins in America GO ! |
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1755 | Landgrave of Hesse sells mercenaries to England for defence of Hanover |
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1755 | End of Anglo-Aust. alliance |
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1756 | The Black Hole of Calcutta, 123 British soldiers are alledged to have died there |
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1756 | Treaty of Westminster; alliance between Britain and Prussia |
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1756 | Anglo-Prussian Treaty of Westminster |
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1756 | Britain declares war on France - Seven Year's War |
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1756 | 120 British soldiers imprisoned and die in India ("Black Hole of Calcutta") |
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1757 | Clive captures India from the French |
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1760 | King George II of England dies; succeeded by his grandson George III |
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1763 | The Seven Years war ends with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg GO ! |
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1765 | British Parliament passes Stamp Act for taxing American colonies GO ! |
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1766 | Repeal of Stamp Act, but Declaratory Act states Britain's right to tax American colonies GO ! |
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1767 | Townshend Duties: taxes on imports of tea, glass, paper, and dyestuffs in American colonies; non-importation agreement at public protest meeting in Boston GO ! |
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1767 | First Mysore War |
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1772 | Boston Assembly demands rights of colonies, threatens secession |
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1774 | Quebec Act, to secure Canada's loyalty to Great Britain, established Roman Catholicism in Canada |
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1775 | American Revolution begins GO ! |
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1776 | March/May France and Spain secretly provide support to American colonists through fictitious companies |
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1778 | February - France signs a treaty of alliance with the United States |
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1779 | Spain declares war on Britian |
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1779 | British war against Mahrattas in India |
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1779 | 21 June - Spain enters the American colonist's war against Great Britain |
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1780 | Henry Grattan demands Home Rule for Ireland |
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1780 | Gordon riots in London ("No Popery") |
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1780 | Outbreak of Second Mysore War |
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1781 | Warren Hastings deposes Rajah of Benares, plunders treasure of the Nabob of Oudh |
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1782 | Lord North resigns; full Parliamentary government restored |
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1783 | 3 September - The Paris Peace Treaty officially ends the American Revolution |
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1787 | Warren Hastings impeached. |
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1788 | George III's first attack of mental illness; regency crisis in England |
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1789 | King George II of England recovers |
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1790 | Third Mysore War |
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1794 | Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Britian |
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1799 | Britain joins Russo-Turk alliance |
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1799 | Kingdom of Mysore divided between Britain and Hyderabad |
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1801 | Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland comes into force |
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1802 | Peace of Amiens between Britain and France |
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1804 | Spain declares war on Britain |
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1806 | Napoleon's Berlin Decree begins "Continental System" |
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1809 | Treaty of Dardanelles between Britain and Turkey |
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1809 | Treaty of friendship between Britain and the Sikhs at Amritsar |
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1811 | George III of England insane; Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent |
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1812 | U.S. declares war on Britain GO ! |
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1812 | 11 May - PM Spencer Perceval assassinated, replaced by Lord Liverpool |
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1813 | Prussia declares war on France |
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1814 | Congress of Vienna opens |
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1814 | Treaty of Ghent ends British-American war GO ! |
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1814 | Lord Hastings, Governor-General of India, declares war on the Gurkhas (Nepal) |
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1815 | Corn Laws passed |
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1818 | Act suspending Habeas Corpus is repealed |
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1819 | "Peterloo" massacre of Corn Law protestors |
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1820 | King George III of England dies; succeeded by Prince Regent as George IV |
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1822 | Congress of Verona opens to discuss European problem |
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1822 | Bottle riots in Dublin, viceroy attacked by Orangemen |
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1825 | Anglo-Russian Treaty of British territory in north-western N. America |
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1826 | Treaty of Yandabu ends Burmese War |
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1827 | By the Treaty of London the Allies agree to force a truce on the Sultan |
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1828 | Mehemet Ali agrees to Britain's demand to quit Greece |
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1829 | Outbreak of First Opium War between Britain and China |
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1830 | William IV becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland |
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1834 | Quadruple Alliance: Britain, France, Spain and Portugal |
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1834 | South Australia Act allows establishment of colony there |
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1834 | Monopoly of the China trade by the East India Company abolished; friction between China and Britain |
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1835 | The Municipal Corporation Act revolutionises borough government in England |
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1837 | William IV dies and is succeeded by his niece, Victoria |
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1838 | First British-Afghan War |
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1838 | Anti-Corn Law League established in Manchester |
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1840 | Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort |
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1841 | Britain's sovereignty proclaimed over Hong Kong |
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1841 | New Zealand becomes British colony |
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1842 | Webster-Ashburton Treaty between Great Britain and the U.S. defines Canadian frontier |
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1842 | Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War between Britain and China |
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1843 | Maori revolts against Britain in New Zealand |
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1845 | Anglo-Sikh War begins |
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1846 | Treaty of Lahore ends First Sikh War |
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1848 | Second Sikh War begins |
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1850 | Outbreak of Anglo-Kaffir War |
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1851 | Beginning of Basuto War |
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1852 | Outbreak of Second Burmese War |
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1853 | Peace between Britain and Burma |
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1853 | Crimean War begins |
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1854 | Convention of Bloemfontein |
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1854 | Britain and France conclude alliance with Turkey and declare war on Russia |
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1854 | Elgin Treaty between Britain and U.S. on Canadian trade |
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1855 | Britain and Afghanistan join against Persia in Treaty of Peshawar |
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1856 | Brit.-Persian war begins |
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1857 | Peace of Paris ends Anglo-Persian war |
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1857 | Indian Mutiny against British rule |
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1857 | Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians) founded |
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1858 | Treaty of Tientsin ends Anglo-Chin. war |
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1858 | British proclaim peace in India |
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1860 | Second Maori War begins |
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1861 | Albert dies and Victoria retires into mourning |
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1867 | Brit. Parliamentary Reform Act |
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1867 | Fenian outrages in Ireland and in Manchester |
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1874 | End of Ashanti war |
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1877 | Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
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1879 | Peace signed with Zulu chiefs |
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1879 | Treaty of Gandamak |
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1880 | Transvaal declares itself independent of Britain |
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1881 | Treaty of Pretoria: Britain recognises independent Transvaal Republic |
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1884 | Berlin Conference of 14 nations on African affairs |
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1884 | London Convention on Transvaal |
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1886 | First Indian National Congress meets |
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1886 | Gladstone introduces bill for Home Rule in Ireland |
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1887 | First Colonial Conference opens in London |
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1889 | London County Council formed |
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1890 | Cecil Rhodes- Premier of Cape Colony |
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1893 | Second Irish Home Rule bill passed by Commons but rejected by Lords |
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1895 | American pressure leads to arbitration of the British boundary dispute with Venezuela |
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1899 | Boer War between Britain and the Boers |
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1899 | London borough councils established |
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1901 | Queen Victoria dies, succeeded by her son, Edward VII |
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1901 | Queen Victoria dies, succeeded by Edward (VII) |
