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   Date  Event(s)
1682 
  • 1682: Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
1684 
  • 1684: Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
1685 
  • 1685: James II King of England 1685 - 1688
  • 1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
1688 
  • 1688: The Glorious Revolution James effectively abdicates
  • 1688: Abolition of Hearth Tax
1689 
  • 1689: William and Mary Joint Reign (William prince of Orange and Mary Daughter of James II 1689 - 1694
1694 
  • 1694: William II King of England Sole ruler after death of Mary 1694 - 1702
1695 
  • 1695: Freedom of Press in England
  • 1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
1696 
  • 1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
1697 
  • 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
10 1701 
  • 1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
11 1702 
  • 1702: Anne Queen of England 1702 - 1714
  • 1702: 1702 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
12 1705 
  • 1705: First working Newcomen Steam Engine
13 1707 
  • 1707: Kingdom of Great Britain Established English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament.
14 1708 
  • 1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
15 1712 
  • 1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
  • 1712: Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession
  • 1712: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender
  • 1712: First Prime Minister Robert Walpole - 1742 (Whig)
16 1714 
  • 1714: George I King of England 1714 - 1727
17 1719 
  • 1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
18 1723 
  • 1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching
  • 1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
19 1725 
  • 1725: Treaty of Hanover
20 1727 
  • 1727: George II King of England 1727 - 1760
21 1729 
  • 1729: Methodists formed at Oxford
22 1730 
  • 1730: Irish Famine
23 1733 
  • 1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
24 1738 
  • 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
25 1741 
  • 1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - The Morovians later were instrumental in converting and educating black slaves in the West Indies
26 1742 
  • 1742: England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
27 1743 
  • 1743: Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle - the Kettle Drums were captured by the Third King's Own Dragoon Guards
28 1745 
  • 1745: Charles Edward Stuart the young pretender to the English throne lands in Scotalnd Defeated at Culloden 1746
  • 1745: Jacobite rebellion in Scotland - Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) lands in the western Highlands - raises support among Episcopalian and Catholic clans - The Pretender's army invades Perth, Edinburgh, and England as far as Derby
29 1746 
  • 1746: April 17 1746 Battle of Culloden. The Jacobite rebellion crushed for all time.
  • 1746: Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain - 5,000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited. Many Scots exiled to Jamaica
30 1752 
  • 1752: Year standardised to end Dec 31 (previously Mar 24) Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England
31 1754 
  • 1754: Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
32 1756 
  • 1756: The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
33 1757 
  • 1757: India: The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassy - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive - The foundation laid for the Empire of India
34 1758 
  • 1758: India stops being merely a commercial venture - England begins dominating it politically - The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade
35 1759 
  • 1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
36 1760 
  • 1760: George III King of England 1760 - 1820
37 1762 
  • 1762: France surrenders Canada and Florida
38 1763 
  • 1763: Treaty of Paris of 1763 - In a nutshell, Britain emerged as the world?s leading colonial empire. Her possessions stretched from India to Africa to the West Indies to North America. The British shocked knowledgeable people of the day by choosing to take the barren wasteland of Canada from France, rather than the prosperous West Indian sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.North America. Received Canada from France - Received Florida from Spain - Ceded recently taken Guadeloupe and Martinique back to France - Ceded recently taken Cuba and the Philippines to Spain - Received Grenada and the Grenadines from France - Received extensive Indian rights from France - Received Senegal from France - Received Minorca from France and Spain
39 1767 
  • 1767: First iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt - First one installed at Tipton
40 1769 
  • 1769: Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
41 1770 
  • 1770: Boston Massacre - On March 5th crowds protesting against the presence of British soldiers are fired upon.
  • 1770: Hargreaves's jenny invented (textile production)
42 1772 
  • 1772: Judge Lord Mansfield rules in the case of James Somerset a negro that there is no legal basis for slavery in England.
43 1773 
  • 1773: The Boston Tea Party - American Colonists protest at excise duties.
44 1775 
  • 1775: American rebel forces enter Canada and capture Montreal
  • 1775: Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775-1783)
45 1776 
  • 1776: Canada : As a result of the American Revolution, 1,124 people from New England arrived in Halifax in the first wave of United Empire Loyalists. In total, about 40,000 Americans remain loyal to Britain and flee north, to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the St. Lawrence Valley, and the lands bordering the Great Lakes. These include a large number of Black Loyalists ie Slaves who escaped and served in the British Forces
  • 1776: British forces capture New York
  • 1776: American Declaration of Independence
46 1777 
  • 1777: British Forces capture Philadelphia but surrender at Saratoga
47 1778 
  • 1778: France hoping for to take advantage of British problems in North America declare war.
48 1779 
  • 1779: Spain declares war on Britain hoping to regain territories lost in 1763
  • 1779: First iron bridge built, over the River Severn by John Wilkinson
  • 1779: Abraham Darby completes the first iron bridge across the Severn at Coalbrookdale
49 1780 
  • 1780: Holland declares war on Britain hoping for rich pickings.
  • 1780: The English Reform Movement - until now, only landowners and tenants--freeholders with 40 shillings per year or more--allowed to vote, and in open poll books
50 1782 
  • 1782: Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief - the way of life of the poor beginning to alter due to industrialisation - New factories in rapidly expanding towns required a workforce that would adjust to new work patterns
51 1783 
  • 1783: Parliament demanded an end to the war, largely due to its expense. The Prime Minister, now Lord North, resigned and, on 3 September 1783, treaties were signed at Versailles. Britain retained Canada and the West Indian Islands but the thirteen rebellious states were formally recognised as the United States of America.
  • 1783: Cornwallis surrenders at the battle of Yorktown
52 1784 
  • 1784: Canada : New Brunswick created - With the arrival of so many Loyalists from American colonies, New Brunswick is created as a separate colony with an elected assembly.
  • 1784: Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics
53 1785 
  • 1785: Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
54 1788 
  • 1788: First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade - stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships
  • 1788: First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales
55 1789 
  • 1789: The French Revolution begins - storming of the Bastille