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Eleventh Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1066 | William the Conqueror | Battle of Hastings | |||
| 1086 | Domesday book completed | ||||
| 1087 | William II | ||||
| 1095 | First Crusade | ||||
| 1100 | Henry I | William Rufus killed while hunting |
Twelfth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1119 | Foundation of the Knights Templar | ||||
| 1120 | Henry I's heir drowns in shipwreck | ||||
| 1123 | St Bartholomews Hospital, London founded by Rahere | ||||
| 1124 | David I becomes King of Scotland | ||||
| 1135 | Stephen | ||||
| 1141 | Matilda | Civil War | |||
| 1147 | Second Crusade | ||||
| 1154 | Henry II | ||||
| 1166 | Assize (possessory) of Clarendon | ||||
| 1170 | Henry the Young King | ||||
| 1176 | Assize (possessory) of Northhampton | ||||
| 1189 | Richard I | Third Crusade | |||
| 1199 | John |
Thirteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1204 | Fourth Crusade | ||||
| 1215 | Signing of Magna Carta | ||||
| 1216 | Henry III | Two regents, William the Marshal and Hubert de Burgh, rule as Henry is only 9 | |||
| 1217 | Treaty of Lambeth | ||||
| 1218 | Henry III | Fifth Crusade | |||
| 1219 | Death of William the Marshal | ||||
| 1222 | Hugh de Burgh supresses an insurrection at Oxford | ||||
| 1223 | |||||
| 1224 | |||||
| 1227 | Henry takes full control of government of England. Hug de Burgh retained as principal adviser. | ||||
| 1216 | |||||
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| 1232 | Peter des Riveaux appointed Treasurer of England | ||||
| 1236 | Henry marries Eleanor of Provence | ||||
| 1238 | Simon de Monfort marries Henry's sister, Eleanor | ||||
| 1258 | De Monfort leads the English barons to rebel. | ||||
| 1258 | Henry signs the Provisions of Oxford | ||||
| 1261 | Henry repudiates the Provisions of Oxford | ||||
| 1262 | |||||
| 1263 | |||||
| 1264 | Battle of Lewes | ||||
| 1265 | Battle of Evesham | ||||
| 1268 | |||||
| 1270 | Seventh Crusade | ||||
| 1272 | Edward I | ||||
| 1277 | English conquest of Wales begins | ||||
| 1278 | |||||
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| 1288 | |||||
| 1290 | Death of Eleanor of Castile | Jews expelled from England | |||
| 1299 | Edward marries Margaret of France | Ottoman Empire begins |
Fourteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1300 | Guillaume de Machaut leading French composer and poet born | ||||
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| 1307 | Edward II | ||||
| 1309 | Papacy moves to Avignon | ||||
| 1314 | Battle of Bannockburn | ||||
| 1319 | Battle of Mytton: Scots defeat English | ||||
| 1322 | Battle of Boroughbridge: crown defeats rebels | ||||
| 1323 | Truce between Robert Bruce and Edward II but warfare continues | ||||
| 1325 | |||||
| 1327 | Edward III | Death of Robert Bruce | |||
| 1333 | Battle of Halidon Hill | ||||
| 1337 | Guillaume de Machaut becomes canon at Rheims; composes Messe de Notre Dame during tenure | ||||
| 1338 | Start of 100 Years War | ||||
| 1342 | Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer | ||||
| 1346 | Battle of Crecy | ||||
| 1346 | Battle Of Neville's Cross | ||||
| 1348 | Black Death reaches Europe | A third or more of the population died as a result of the Black Death | |||
| 1356 | Battle of Poitiers | ||||
| 1377 | Richard II | Papacy returns to Rome
Guillaume de Machaut died | |||
| 1380 | |||||
| 1381 | The Peasants' Revolt | ||||
| 1382 | Chaucer's: 'The Parlement of Foules' first use of rhyme royal in English Literature | ||||
| 1385 | Chaucer's: 'Troilus and Criseyde' | ||||
| 1387 | |||||
| 1388 | Battle of Otterburn | ||||
| 1399 | Henry IV | ||||
| 1400 | Owen Glendower revolts in Wales | Chaucer dies, London, 25 OCT |
Fifteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1413 | Henry V | ||||
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt | ||||
| 1422 | Henry VI | ||||
| 1440 | Eton College & Kings College Cambridge founded | ||||
| 1450 | Jack Cade's rebellion | ||||
| 1454 | Johannes Gutenberg using movable type commercially | ||||
| 1455 | Start of the Wars of the Roses | ||||
| 1455 | First Battle of St Albans | Johannes Gutenberg prints '42 Line' Bible in Catholic Mainz, Germany | |||
| 1456 | |||||
| 1461 | Edward IV | ||||
| 1470 | Henry VI | ||||
| 1471 | Edward IV | Battle of Barnet | |||
| 1476 | Caxton sets up first English printing press | ||||
| 1483 | Edward V | ||||
| 1483 | Richard III | ||||
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field | Richard III dies in battle | |||
| 1485 | Henry VII | ||||
| 1486 | Henry married Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of York and Lancaster | ||||
| 1487 | |||||
| 1488 | |||||
| 1489 | |||||
| 1490 | |||||
| 1491 | Perkin Warbeck claims to be Richard, Duke of York | ||||
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus discovers America | ||||
| 1493 | |||||
| 1494 | |||||
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| 1497 | John Cabot searches for NW passage to China | ||||
| 1498 | |||||
| 1499 | Perkin Warbeck hanged |
Sixteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1502 | Death of Prince Arthur, heir to the throne | ||||
| 1503 | Death of Elizabeth of York, Henry's wife | ||||
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| 1509 | Henry VIII | Marriage of Henry and Catherine of Aragon | |||
| 1515 | Birth of Princess Mary | ||||
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| 1529 | Cardinal Wolsey accused of high treason | ||||
| 1530 | |||||
| 1531 | |||||
| 1532 | Sir Thomas More gives up the Chancellorship | ||||
| 1533 | Henry excommunicated by the Pope | ||||
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy passed | ||||
| 1535 | |||||
| 1536 | Execution of Anne Boleyn | Act of Union between Wales and England | |||
| 1538 | Parish Registers started | ||||
| 1547 | Edward VI | ||||
| 1548 | |||||
| 1549 | First Act of Uniformity passed, making Roman Catholic mass illegal | The First Book of Common Prayer issued | |||
| 1550 | |||||
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| 1553 | Jane | ||||
| 1553 | Mary I | ||||
| 1554 | Marriage of Mary to Philip of Spain | Execution of Lady Jane Grey | |||
| 1555 | |||||
| 1556 | |||||
| 1558 | Elizabeth I | ||||
| 1559 | Second Act of Supremacy | ||||
| 1560 | |||||
| 1561 | |||||
| 1562 | Sumptuary law restricts hose, ruffs and swords | ||||
| 1563 to 1564 | Bubonic Plague in London | ||||
| 1564 | William Shakespeare baptised 26 April in Statford-upon-Avon Warwickshire | ||||
| 1565 | |||||
| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scots flees to England and is imprisoned by Elizabeth | ||||
| 1577 to 1580 | Francis Drake circumnavigates the world | ||||
| 1586 | Mary Queen of Scots sent for trial | ||||
| 1587 | Execution of Mary Queen of Scots | ||||
| 1588 | Spanish Armada | ||||
| 1589 | Stocking Frame invented by William Lee | ||||
| 1590 | First part of Edmund Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" published | ||||
| 1598 | Bishops' Transcripts introduced | ||||
| 1599 | Richard Burbage, William Shakespeare & others build Globe Theatre in London | ||||
| 1600 | Heels on shoes became common in Europe | East India Company founded |
Seventeenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1601 | Poor Law Act Relief granted to paupers only in their parish of legal settlement | Orphans and paupers' children become apprentices (see Poor Law Act) | |||
| 1602 | |||||
| 1603 | James I | ||||
| 1604 | |||||
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot | ||||
| 1606 | |||||
| 1607 | Ulster colonized by Protestant settlers | Huge wave in Bristol Channel kills hundreds | Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, USA | ||
| 1608 | John Milton (poet) born | Quebec city founded | |||
| 1609 | |||||
| 1610 | Authorized Version of Bible | ||||
| 1611 | |||||
| 1612 | Henry Prince of Wales died of typhoid | ||||
| 1612 | 10 hanged at Lancaster for witchcraft | ||||
| 1613 | Globe Theatre London burns down | ||||
| 1614 | Globe Theatre rebult by June | New York founded by Dutch (New Amsterdam) | |||
| 1615 | |||||
| 1616 | Shakespeare dies 23 April at Statford-upon-Avon | ||||
| 1617 | |||||
| 1618 | |||||
| 1619 | |||||
| 1620 | Pilgrim Fathers settle in New England | ||||
| 1621 | |||||
| 1622 | |||||
| 1623 | |||||
| 1624 | Fire destroys much of Dunfermline | ||||
| 1625 | Charles I | ||||
| 1626 | |||||
| 1627 | England goes to war with France | ||||
| 1628 | William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals | ||||
| 1629 | 11 years rule without Parliament commences | ||||
| 1630 | |||||
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| 1634 | First writs for Ship Money issued | ||||
| 1635 | |||||
| 1636 | |||||
| 1637 | John Hampden tried for non payment of Ship Money | New Prayer Book introduced in Scotland | |||
| 1638 | |||||
| 1639 | First Bishops War against Scots | ||||
| 1640 | Second Bishops war Battle of Newburn Ford | Most of Gentry and Merchant classes literate | |||
| 1641 | Star Chamber and Court of High Commission abolished | Protestation Returns required by Parliament | |||
| 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| 1642 to 1651 | English Civil Wars | ||||
| 1642 | Royalists victory at Powick Bridge 23 Sep | ||||
| 1642 | Battle of Edgehill 23 Oct | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Braddock Down 19 Jan | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Hopton Heath 16 Mar | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Stratton 16 May | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Chalgrove 17 Jun | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Adwalton Manor 30 Jun | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Roundway Down 13 Jul | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Newbury 20 Sep | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Winceby 11 Oct | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Nantwich 25 Jan | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Cheriton 29 Mar | Globe Theatre destroyed by Puritans | |||
| 1644 | Battle of Cropredy Bridge 29 June | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Marston Moor 2 July | ||||
| 1645 | |||||
| 1646 | |||||
| 1647 | George Fox's spiritual revelation that leads to founding Quakers | ||||
| 1648 | Frondes civil wars in France | ||||
| January 1649 | Regicide of Charles I | England declared a republic | |||
| 1649 to 1660 | Interregnum | Possible gaps in Parish records | |||
| 1649 | Irish royalists defeated at Wexford and the Siege of Drogheda | ||||
| 1650 | Scots royalists defeated at Dunbar | Cape Town founded | |||
| 1651 | Scots royalists defeated at Worcester | Charles II flees into exile | |||
| 1652 to 1654 | First Dutch War | ||||
| 1652 | Pasqua Rosee opens London's first Coffee House | ||||
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell | ||||
| 1654 | |||||
| 1655 | Parliament dismissed. Country divided into 11 districts, each with a Major-General | Jamaica captured from the Spanish | |||
| 1656 | |||||
| 1657 | |||||
| 1658 | Richard Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell dies | |||
| 1659 | |||||
| 1660 | Charles II | Samuel Pepys begins diary | |||
| 1661 | |||||
| 1662 | Poor Relief Act (Act of Settlement) | The parish responsible for the relief of the poor. | |||
| 1662 | Book of Common Prayer (the current traditional C of E prayer book) | ||||
| 1662 to 1689 | Hearth Tax in England | ||||
| 1663 | Mens' wigs become fashionable | ||||
| 1664 | |||||
| 1665-67 | 2nd Dutch War | The Oxford Gazette (later the London Gazette) first published | |||
| 1665 | Five Mile Act | Great Plague | |||
| 1666 | Great Fire of London | ||||
| 1666 | The Oxford Gazette becomes the London Gazette | ||||
| 1667 | John Milton writes "Paradise Lost" | ||||
| 1668 | Bombay granted to East India Company | ||||
| 1669 | |||||
| 1670 | Secret Treaty of Dover | ||||
| 1671 | |||||
| 1672-74 | 3rd Dutch War | ||||
| 1673 | Test Act | ||||
| 1674 | John Milton (poet) died | ||||
| 1675 | Royal Observatory established at Greenwich | ||||
| 1676 | Great Fire of Southwark | St Paul's Cathedral begun by Sir Christopher Wren | |||
| 1677 | Act for burying in Woollen | ||||
| 1678 | Popish plot fabricated by Titus Oates | "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan | |||
| 1679 | Habeas Corpus Act | ||||
| 1680 | Anton van Leeuwenhoek refines the microscope and Royal Society accept his observations on single cell organisms | ||||
| 1681 | |||||
| 1682 | Pennsylvania founded | ||||
| 1685 | James II | Battle of Sedgmoor | Edict of Nantes revoked and many Huguenots settle in England | Johann Sebastian Bach born 21 March Eisenach Germany
Georg Friedrich Handel born Halle Germany | |
| 1687 | Newton publishes Principia | ||||
| 1688 | The Glorious Revolution | ||||
| 1689 | William and Mary | Battle of Killiecrankie | Freedom of worship for Protestant dissenters | ||
| 1692 | Glencoe Massacre | ||||
| 1693 | National Debt founded | Land tax first introduced | |||
| 1694 | Death of Mary; William rules alone | Foundation of the Bank of England | |||
| 1695 | Press licensing abandoned in England(freedom of the press) | ||||
| 1696 | Window Tax introduced |
Eighteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1701 | Act of Settlement | ||||
| 1702 | Anne | War of Spanish Succession starts | The Daily Courant published - first daily newspaper | ||
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| 1704 | Battle of Blenheim | ||||
| 1705 | The Earl of Peterborough captures Barcelona | Newcomen patents steam pump | |||
| 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 | |||
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| 1713 | The Treaty of Utrecht | ||||
| 1714 | George I | 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) | ||||
| 1717 | |||||
| 1718 | Thomas Lombe's silk spinning patent | ||||
| 1719 | "Robinson Crusoe" published | ||||
| 1720 | South Sea Bubble burst | ||||
| 1721 | Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1722 | Death of Duke of Marlborough | ||||
| 1726 | "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift published | Death of Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I | |||
| 1727 | George II | Death of Sir Isaac Newton | |||
| 1733 | Kay's flying shuttle | ||||
| 1736 | Witchcraft finally abolished as a crime | ||||
| 1737 | Death of Queen Caroline | ||||
| 1738 | Methodism begins | ||||
| 1739 | War of Jenkins Ear | ||||
| 1740 | War of the Austrian Succession | ||||
| 1742 | Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1743 | Henry Pelham, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1745 | 2nd Jacobite rebellion | ||||
| 1746 | Battle of Culloden | ||||
| 1747 | James Lind , a Scottish naval surgeon, discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. | ||||
| 1750 | London earth tremors cause panic | Johann Sebastian Bach dies | |||
| 1752 | Gregorian calendar introduced | ||||
| 1753 | Foundation of the British Museum | Marriage Act | |||
| 1754 | Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1755 | War with France | ||||
| 1756 | William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1756 to 1763 | Seven Years' War | ||||
| 1755 | Black Hole of Calcutta | ||||
| 1757 | Battle of Plassey | ||||
| 1757 | Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1759 | Georg Friedrich Handel dies | ||||
| 1760 | George III | ||||
| 1762 | John Stuart, Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1763 | George Grenville, Prime Minister (Whig) | August hailstorms ruin Sussex harvest | |||
| 1765 | Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1766 | William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1767 | Augustus Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1768 | Royal Academy of Arts founded | Spinning jenny | |||
| 1770 | Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (Tory) | Cook charts New South Wales
Ludwig van Beethoven born in Bonn | |||
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party | ||||
| 1774 | Discovery of oxygen by Joseph Priestley | ||||
| 1775 | American War of Independence | James Watt develops the steam engine | |||
| 1776 | Bridgewater canal completed | American Declaration of Independence | |||
| 1778 | First iron bridge built | ||||
| 1778 | Bramah's flushing watercloset patented | ||||
| 1779 to 1783 | Siege of Gibraltar | ||||
| 1779 | Crompton's Mule | ||||
| 1780 | 4th Anglo-Dutch war | Gordon Riots in London | |||
| 1781 | |||||
| 1782 | Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1782 | William FitzMaurice, Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1783 | William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, Prime Minister (Tory) | Britain recognises U.S. independence | |||
| 1783 | William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1784 | |||||
| 1785 | Separation of the Methodist Church from the Church of England | Cartwright's Power Loom | |||
| 1788 | Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) dies in Rome | ||||
| 1788 | Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet in Sydney Cove | ||||
| 1789 | French Revolution | ||||
| 1790 | |||||
| 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) | |||
| 1796 to 1808 | Anglo-Spanish War | ||||
| 1796 | Grand Junction (Union) Canal opens | ||||
| 1796 | Jenner develops smallpox vaccine | ||||
| 1798 | Nelson wins Battle of the Nile | Beginning of Irish Immigration to Canada
Beethoven writes Pathetique | |||
| 1800 | Sir Humphry Davy announces the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide although it was not used as such for 40 years | Census Act |
Nineteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | Regents Canal opens | Census 10th March (of limited use to family historians | |||
| 1801 | Henry Addington,Prime Minister (Tory) | First Ordnance Survey map published, the 1 inch map of Kent | |||
| 1802 | |||||
| 1803 | War with France | ||||
| 1804 | William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar | ||||
| 1806 | William Grenville, Lord Grenville, Prime Minister (Whig) | State funeral of Nelson | |||
| 1807 | Abolition of Slavery Act | ||||
| 1807 | William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1808 to 1814 | Peninsular War | ||||
| 1809 | Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister (Tory) | First 'free' settlers to NSW | |||
| 1810 | First curry house opens in England | ||||
| 1811 | Prince George appointed Regent when his father's health deteriorates (porphyria) | Census 27th May (of limited use to family historians) | |||
| 1812-15 | Anglo-American War | ||||
| 1812 | Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated | First commercial European paddle steamer | Rose's Act passed. Entry of baptisms, marriages and burials in Anglican churches standardised in bound volumes | ||
| 1812 | Robert Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1813 | Publication of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen | Giuseppe Verdi born 10th October at Roncole | |||
| 1815 | Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo | Leeds Liverpool canal completed | |||
| 1816 | Davy lamp improves mining safety | Year without a summer due to volcanic eruption | |||
| 1816 | René Laënnec invents the stethoscope | ||||
| 1817 | |||||
| 1818 | James Blundell, British obstetrician, performs the first successful human blood transfusion. | Death of Queen Charlotte | |||
| 1819 | Peterloo Massacre | Jacques Offenbach French Composer born | |||
| 1820 | George IV | Failure of the Cato Street Conspiracy | |||
| 1821 | Census May 28th (of limited value to family historians) | ||||
| 1822 | Birth of Louis Pasteur | Caledonian Canal completed | |||
| 1823 | |||||
| 1824 | |||||
| 1825 | First railway, Stockton-Darlington | ||||
| 1826 | Machine breaking & riots in Lancashire | First steamship crosses Atlantic | |||
| 1827 | George Canning, Prime Minister (Tory) | endoscope invented by Pierre Segalas | |||
| 1827 | Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister (Tory) | Ludwig van Beethoven dies | |||
| 1828 | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1829 | The Catholic Relief Act passed - Catholics permitted to becomes MPs | Metropolitan Police established | Stephenson's "Rocket" locomotive | WA declared British possession | |
| 1830 | William IV | Charles Grey, Earl Grey, Prime Minister (Whig ) | Liverpool & Midlands Railway opens | Census: 30th May (of limited use to family historians | |
| 1831 to 1832 | 1st Cholera Epidemic | ||||
| 1832 | The Reform Bill of 1832 | ||||
| 1833 | Slavery Abolition Act | ||||
| 1834 | Poor Law Amendment Act | Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia | |||
| 1834 | William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1834 | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1834 | Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister (Tory) | ||||
| 1835 | William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1836 | Sentence of Tolpuddle Martyrs remitted under public pressure | ||||
| 1837 | Victoria | Electric Telegraph invented | Civil Registration introduced | ||
| 1838 | Chartism:The People's Petition | Daguerrotype photographical process | Public Record Office established | ||
| 1839 to 42 | First Afghan War | ||||
| 1839 | Foundation of the anti-Corn Law League | ||||
| 1840 | Charles Booth, Ship owner and Sociologist born | ||||
| 1840 | Uniform Penny Post introduced | Victoria married Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | |||
| 1841 | Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister (Tory) | Thomas Cook travel company founded | London-Brighton railway completed | Census: 6th June | |
| 1842 | Income Tax Act | Income tax re-introduced | |||
| 1843 | Rebecca riots in Wales | ||||
| 1844 | Nitrous oxide first used as an anesthetic by Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist. | ||||
| 1844 | Safety match invented in Sweden | ||||
| 1845 | Start of the Irish Potato Famine | Emigration from Ireland rises steeply | |||
| 1845 to 1872 | New Zealand Colonial Wars | ||||
| 1846 | Repeal of the Corn Laws | ||||
| 1846 | Lord John Russell, Prime Minister (Whig) | ||||
| 1847 | First use of chloroform in childbirth | ||||
| 1848 to 1849 | 2nd Cholera Epidemic | ||||
| 1848 | 1st Public Health Act | Foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | Influx of academic and middle class Europeans to London | ||
| 1850 | First Public Library Act | ||||
| 1851 | The Great Exhibition | Australian Gold Rush | Census: 30th March | ||
| 1852 | Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (Conservative) | Foundation of the Museum of Manufactures (later the Victoria & Albert Museum) | |||
| 1852 | George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1853 | 3rd Cholera Epidemic | ||||
| 1853 | Compulsory Vaccination Act | Alexander Wood invents hypodermic syringe | Jacques Offenbach composes and performs 'Pepito' | ||
| 1854 to 1856 | The Crimean War | ||||
| 1854 | Broad Street cholera outbreak | John Snow discovers cause of cholera | |||
| 1855 | Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (Liberal) | Civil Registration introduced in Scotland | |||
| 1856 | Crinoline becomes popular | Synthetic dyes invented | |||
| 1856 | Bessemer converter enables large scale steel production | ||||
| 1857 | The Museum of Manufactures moved to South Kensington and became South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum) | Matrimonial Causes Act | |||
| 1858 | Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (Conservative) | Secular Court of Probate created | |||
| 1858 | Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (Liberal) | ||||
| 1859 | Louis Pasteur paper published suggesting that microorganisms may cause many human and animal diseases | ||||
| 1861 | Census: 7th April | ||||
| 1861 | Death of Prince Albert from typhoid | ||||
| 1861 to 1865 | American Civil War | Lancashire Cotton Famine | |||
| 1863 | Formation of Football Association | First underground railway opens in London | |||
| 1865 to 1866 | 4th Cholera Epidemic | ||||
| 1865 | Locomotives on Highways Act also known as the 'Red Flag Act' | ||||
| 1865 | John Russell, Earl Russell, Prime Minister (Liberal) | ||||
| 1866 | Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1867 | Joseph Lister publishes paper on Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery | Suez canal opens | |||
| 1868 | Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1868 | William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (Liberal) | Jacques Offenbach composes Orpheus of the Underworld | |||
| 1870 | Education Act makes primary education compulsory | First Barnardo's Home opens | Germ theory of disease established by Robert Kock and Louis Pasteur | ||
| 1871 | Trade Unions legalized | Penny farthing bicycle invented | Census: 2nd April | ||
| 1871 | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, entrepreneur and philanthropist born | Typewriter invented by Christopher Sholes | |||
| 1872 | 2nd Public Health Act introduced | compulsory vaccination against smallpox introduced | |||
| 1874 | Benjamin Disraeli Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1875 | 3rd and 4th Public Health Act introduced and were compulsory | First electric dental drill patented by George Green | |||
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone | ||||
| 1877 | Edison invents phonograph and electric light bulb | ||||
| 1878 to 1880 | Second Afghan War | ||||
| 1879 | Zulu War | First vaccine for Cholera introduced | |||
| 1880 | William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (Liberal) | Jacques Offenbach composes The Tales of Hoffman | |||
| 1880 to 1881 | First Boer War | death of Jacques Offenbach | |||
| 1881 | First vaccine for anthrax introduced | Census: 3rd April | |||
| 1882 | |||||
| 1883 | First electric railway opens in Brighton | 20 May 1883 eruption of Krakatoa | |||
| 1885 | Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1886 | William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (Liberal) | ||||
| 1886 | Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1887 | Adolf Frick invents contact lenses | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee | |||
| 1890 | Antitoxins discovered by Emil von Behring who used them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines | ||||
| 1891 | Census: 5th April | ||||
| 1892 | William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (Liberal) | ||||
| 1893 | First Matabele War | Marconi invents Wireless Telegraph | |||
| 1894 | Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister (Liberal) | ||||
| 1895 | Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister (Conservative) | Rontgen discovers X rays | |||
| 1896 | Second Matabele War | First vaccine for typhoid fever | |||
| 1897 | First vaccine for plague | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | |||
| 1898 | Marie Curie (Nov 7 1867 -July 4 1934) discovered radioactive substances | ||||
| 1899 | Museum of South Kensington becomes the Victoria and Albert Museum | Bayer begin marketing Aspirin | |||
| 1899 to 1902 | Second Boer War |
Twentieth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Queen Victoria died 22nd Jan | Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research opens in New York City | |||
| 1901 | Edward VII | The existence of different human blood types discovered by Karl Landsteiner | Australia granted dominion status | ||
| 1901 | Census 1st April | ||||
| 1902 | Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1903 | Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first flight | ||||
| 1903 | Willem Einthoven invents electrocardiograph | ||||
| 1905 | Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister (Liberal) | ||||
| 1906 | Diagnostic test for syphilis introduced by German researcher August von Wasserman. | San Francisco earthquake | |||
| 1907 | First mention of a brassiere in Vogue | Skin test for TB introduced by Clemens Von Pirquet. | New Zealand granted dominion status | ||
| 1907 | First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique | ||||
| 1908 | Herbert H. Asquith, Prime Minister (Liberal) - Coalition Government, 1915) | ||||
| 1908 | Triple Entente between Russia, France and Britain signed | 4th Olympic Games held in London | |||
| 1909 | Old age pension introduced in Britain | National Committee for Mental Hygiene founded to promote prevention and cure of mental diseases. | |||
| 1909 | Labour Exchange system introduced | ||||
| 1910 | George V | ||||
| 1911 | National Insurance Act | Census 2nd April | |||
| 1912 | Sinking of the Titanic | ||||
| 1913 | |||||
| 1914 to 1918 | World War One | Sinking of the Lusitania | |||
| 1916 | David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (Liberal - Coalition Government) | ||||
| 1916 | Battle of the Somme | ||||
| 1917 | Russian Revolution | ||||
| 1918 | Qualification of Women Act | Influenza pandemic | First opportunity for women to vote | ||
| 1919 | Third Afghan War (May-Aug) | Lady Astor becomes the first woman MP | |||
| 1920 | |||||
| 1921 | Edward Mellanby discovers vitamin D | ||||
| 1922 | Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1923 | Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister (Conservative) | First vaccine for diphtheria. | |||
| 1924 | First Labour Government formed by James Ramsay MacDonald | ||||
| 1924 | Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1925 | |||||
| 1926 | General Strike in support of coalminers | John Logie Baird makes the first public demonstration of television | Formal Legal Adoption Commenced | ||
| 1926 | First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough). | ||||
| 1927 | First vaccine for tuberculosis. | ||||
| 1927 | First vaccine for tetanus. | ||||
| 1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin | ||||
| 1929 | James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister (Labour) | The Wall Street Crash | Start of the Great Depression | ||
| 1930 | |||||
| 1931 | James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister (National Labour - National Government) | ||||
| 1932 | |||||
| 1933 | Manfred Sakel discovers insulin shock therapy | ||||
| 1933 to 1945 | Adolf Hitler, Chancellor and Head of state of Germany(Dictator) | ||||
| 1935 | Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister (Conservative - National Government) | ||||
| 1936 | Edward VIII January to December | First vaccine for yellow fever. | |||
| 1936 | George VI | Maiden voyage of the liner the Queen Mary | |||
| 1937 | Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (Conservative - National Government) | First vaccine for typhus. | Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson | ||
| 1939 to 1945 | World War Two | ||||
| 1940 | Winston Churchill, Prime Minister (Conservative - Coalition Government) | ||||
| 1945 | Clement Attlee, Prime Minister (Labour) | First vaccine for influenza. | |||
| 1947 | Notably severe winter in UK | India and Pakistan granted independence | |||
| 1948 | The National Health Service came into effect on the 5th of July 1948 | ||||
| 1948 | Berlin Blockade and Air Lift | ||||
| 1949 | |||||
| 1950 | John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker. | ||||
| 1951 | Winston Churchill, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1952 | Elizabeth II | USA tests the first hydrogen bomb | Jonas Salk invented polio vaccine | ||
| 1953 | Paracetamol first marketed | ||||
| 1954 | Rationing finally ends | ||||
| 1955 | Sir Anthony Eden, Prime Minister, (Conservative) | contraceptive pill invented by Gregor Pincus | |||
| 1956 | |||||
| 1957 | Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ||||
| 1958 | |||||
| 1959 to 1975 | Vietnam War | ||||
| 1959 | |||||
| 1960 | |||||
| 1961 | |||||
| 1962 | First oral polio vaccine (as an alternative to the injected vaccine). | U.S. Congress passes legislation creating Medicare and Medicaid. | |||
| 1963 | Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister (Conservative) | Very severe winter | |||
| 1964 | Harold Wilson, Prime Minister (Labour) | First vaccine for measles. | |||
| 1965 | U.S. Congress passes law requiring label on cigarette packages: "Warning: Cigarette Smoking may be Hazardous to your Health." | ||||
| 1966 | |||||
| 1967 | First vaccine for mumps. | South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant. | |||
| 1968 | USSR invades Czechoslovakia | ||||
| 1969 | Apollo 11 moonlanding - 1st man on the moon | ||||
| 1970 | Edward Heath, Prime Minister (Conservative) | First vaccine for rubella. | |||
| 1971 | Introduction of decimal currency | ||||
| 1973 | CAT scan invented by Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack | ||||
| 1974 | Harold Wilson, Prime Minister (Labour) | First vaccine for chicken pox. | |||
| 1974 | |||||
| 1976 | James Callaghan, Prime Minister (Labour) | ||||
| 1977 | First vaccine for pneumonia | ||||
| 1978 | First test-tube baby is born in the U.K. | ||||
| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister (Conservative) | ultrasound scan invented by Ian Donald | |||
| 1980 | W.H.O. (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated. | ||||
| 1981 | First vaccine for hepatitis B. | ||||
| 1982 | Falklands War | ||||
| 1983 | HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified. | ||||
| 1984 | Leprosy Vaccine made | ||||
| 1985 | |||||
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| 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web | Fall of the Berlin Wall Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia | |||
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| 1999 |
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