Hugh Reid

Hugh Reid

Male Abt 1685 - 1786  (101 years)


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Died (Hugh Reid)
Died ( Agness Neel)
Mary Reid (1715 - 1776)
Hugh Reid (1685 - 1786)
Agness Neel (1685 - 1779)
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Battle of Crysler's Farm
Burning of Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
Battle of Lake Erie (Put-in-Bay) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Raid on Gananoque PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle for Lake Erie
Battle of Lacolle Mills PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Forty Mile Creek PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Skirmish of Butler's Farm (Two Mile Creek) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
War of 1812
Battle of Stoney Creek
Battle of the Thames
Surrender of Fort Detroit PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Fort Stephenson
U.S forces reoccupy Queenston and Chippawa (Niagara)
Battle of Queenston Heights PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'
Ireland: First recorded '12th of July' sectarian riots in Belfast
Creek War
Napoleon retreats from Moscow with catastrophic losses
Start of American 'War of 1812' (to 1814) against England and Canada
War of 1812
Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated ? shot as he entered the House of Commons by a bankrupt Liverpool broker, John Bellingham, who was subsequently hanged
Battle of Brownstown
Missouri Territory Organized
War of 1812
A printed format for parish registers begins
Battle of Tippecanoe
Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
David Thomson charts Columbia River
John McAdam begins road construction in England, giving his name to the process of road metalling
German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press
Peter Durand invents the tin can
Royal Opera House opens in London
James Madison
James Madison
Illinois Territory Organized
Birth of Charles Darwin
British abolish slave trade PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp
Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
'Hot Wednesday' ? temperature of 101?F in the shade recorded in London
Gas lighting in London streets
Simon Fraser to Vancouver
Parliament passes Act prohibiting slavery and the importation of slaves from 1808 ? but does not prohibit colonial slavery
Nelson buried in St Paul's cathedral, London
Dartmoor Prison opened (built by French prisoners)
Le Canadien newspaper founded
Battle of Austerlitz; Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians
Michigan Territory Organized
Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
12th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Louisiana Territory Organized
London docks opened
Spain declares war on Britain
Napoleon declares himself Emperor of the French
Ohio PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
John Wedgwood (eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood) founds The Royal Horticultural Society
Richard Trevithick runs his railway engine on the Penydarren Railway (9.5 miles from Pen-y-Darren to Abercynon in South Wales) this hauled a train with 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers. It was commemorated by the Royal Mint in 2004 in the form of A ?2 c
Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed 'Australia'
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive
Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting
First public railway opens (Surrey Iron Railway, 9 miles from Wandsworth to Croydon, horse-drawn)
Peace of Amiens ends ? resumption of war with France ? The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
Louisiana Purchase: Napoleon sells French possessions in America to United States
12th Amendment passed by Congress
Semaphore signaling perfected by Admiral Popham
Poaching made a Capital offense in England if capture resisted
Richard Trevithick built another steam carriage and ran it in London as the first self-propelled vehicle in the capital and the first London bus
Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands ? the 'Peace of Amiens' as it was known brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars ? one of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondenc
First passenger Train
Thomas Jefferson
First Barbary War
First Census
Thomas Jefferson
Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London
Grand Union Canal opens in England
Tripolitan War
Barbary Wars
Union Jack becomes the official British flag
Indiana Territory Organized
Parliamentary Union
Volta makes first electrical battery
Herschel discovers infra-red light
High pressure steam
Royal College of Surgeons founded
First Electric Light
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom
?Rosetta Stone' discovered in Egypt made possible the deciphering (in 1822) of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
'Combination Laws' in Britain against political associations and combinations
Pitt brings in 10% income tax, as a wartime financial measure
Foundation of Royal Military College Sandhurst by the Duke of York
Foundation of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
9th January - Pitt brings in 10% income tax
Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making
Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
Mississippi Territory Organized
The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished (Feb-Oct)
Franco-American War
First planned human experiment with vaccination, to test theories of Edward Jenner
Franco-American Naval War
Feb-Oct The Irish Rebellion, -
Marriage Act
Prince Edward Island created
Aloys Senefelder invents lithography
The first soft drink invented
John Adams
John Adams
First ?1 (and ?2) notes issued by Bank of England
French invade Fishguard, Wales; last time UK invaded; all captured 2 days later
England in Crisis, Bank of England suspends cash payments
Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore
Tax on newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) increased to repress radical publications
The first copper pennies were produced ('cartwheels') by application of steam power to the coining press
England in Crisis
A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe
Wittemore patents a carding machine
Dr Edward Jenner gave first vaccination for smallpox in England
Tennessee
Pitt's Reign of Terror': More treason trials - leading radicals emigrate
Legacy Tax on sums over ?20 excluding those to wives, children, parents and grandparents
Holden's Triennial Directory published
Town of York (Toronto) becomes capital of Upper Canada
Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination
11th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The Famine Year
Foundation of the Orange Order
Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's wage to subsistence level - towards the end of the eighteenth century, the number of poor and unemployed increased dramatically - price increases during the Napoleo
Pitt and Grenville introduce The Gagging Acts' or 'Two Bills' (the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills) - outlawed the mass meeting and the political lecture.
Consumption of lime juice made compulsory in Royal Navy
The Famine Year
Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food
The prosecutor for Britain, Lord Justice Eyre, charges reformers with High Treason - he argued that, since reform of parliament would lead to revolution and revolution to executing the King, the desire for reform endangered the King's life and was theref
11th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Abolition of Parish Register duties
Abolition of Parish Register duties
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings
Upper Canada's Abolition Act PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
?5 notes first issued by the Bank of England
Britain declares war on France (1793-1802)
11th February - England declares war on France (1793-1802)
Alexander MacKenzie crosses Canada by land
District of Columbia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
Introduction of Money Orders in Britain
Rhode Island PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Rhode Island ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Tennessee Territory Organized
Kentucky
Coal-gas lighting invented by William Murdock, an Ayrshire Scot
Boyle's Street Directory published
Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press) - Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament, requiring a jury and not a judge to determine libel
Repression in Britian (restrictions on freedom of the press)
George Vancouver exploration
William Murdoch invents gas lighting
The first ambulance
First publication of The Observer - world's oldest Sunday newspaper
Constitutional Act PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
George Washington
Vermont PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Bill of Rights adopted PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
27th Amendment originally proposed PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
John Bell, printer, abandons the long s' (the 's' that looks like an 'f')
Sugar prices rise steeply
John Barber invents the gas turbine
Early bicycles invented in Scotland
North Carolina PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
North Carolina ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Maryland PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Maryland ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New York PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Virginia ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Virginia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton
New York ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
South Carolina PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
South Carolina ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
MacKenzie River exploration
New Hampshire PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Hampshire ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
United States Constitution in effect PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
George Washington
Mutiny on HMS Bounty - Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew ends up on Pitcairn Island
New Constitution sent to for ratification PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
14th June - The French Revolution begins - storming of the Bastille
UE (Unity of Empire) designation created for Loyalists
The guillotine is invented
Connecticut PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Connecticut ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Jersey PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Jersey ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Massachusetts PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Massachusetts ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Georgia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Georgia ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales (left Portsmouth 13 May 1787) ? the 'First Fleet'; eleven ships commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip
Ohio Territory Organized
Gibbon completes Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis - Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack ministry of William Pitt - trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales
Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced)
First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade - stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships
First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland
26th January, First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New Soputh Wales
The Scarce Year
The abolition of the "stavnsbaand" (compulsory residence by the peasant and farming classes.)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania ratified U.S. Constitution
Delaware
Delaware ratified U.S. Constitution
MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
Earliest known Swedenborgian (Church of the New Jerusalem or Jerusalemite) registers
The first population census of genealogical value was taken
John Fitch invents a steamboat
Cape Breton Island created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Brunswick created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Loyalist migration from New York PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
Northwest Indian War
Acadians sail from France to Louisiana
Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance
Blanchard invents a working parachute
Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching
John Walter publishes first edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3 years)
First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle
First golf club founded at St Andrews
Wesley breaks with the Church of England
Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics
Pitt's India Act -
Grand River Reserve created
Mass migration of Loyalists
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock
Last public execution at Tyburn in London (John Austin, a highwayman)
Treaty of Versailles (Britain/US)
Treaty of Versailles
Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries!
Duty on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794)
Eastern Canada - U.S.A. border established
Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute
Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock
James Watt patents his steam engine
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
Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief -
Massive Loyalist migration from U.S. begins
First UEL settlers in Niagara
Treaty signed with Micmac to protect British settlers PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Jun 2- 8: The Gordon Riots - Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure - for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread
First Derby run at Epsom (some say 2nd June)
About this time the word 'Quiz' entered the language, said to have been invented as a wager by Mr Daly, a Dublin theatre manager
Fountain pen invented
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
Male Servants Tax
4th May First Derby run at Epsom
Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses
Gervinus invents the circular saw
Naval engagement between Britain and USA off Flamborough Head
Capt James Cook killed on Hawaii
First Spinning Mills operational in Scotland
First iron bridge built, over the Severn by John Wilkinson
Marc Isambard Brunel opens the first steamdriven sawmill at Chatham Dockyard in Kent
Crompton's mule invented (Textile production)
Industrial Revolution begins to affect Scotland.
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
Captain James Cook explores West Coast
Samuel Miller of Southampton patents the circular saw.
First attack on a warship by a submarine - David Bushnell's ?Turtle' attacked HMS Eagle in New York harbour. The attack was perhaps spectacular (a charge did detonate beneath the ship) but was nevertheless unsuccessful. 'Turtle' was a one man Affair ma
American Revolution (War of Independence)
American Declaration of Independence
American forces invade PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First United Empire Loyalists arrive
Somerset House in London becomes the repository of records of population
Watt and Boulton produce their first commercial steam engine
Acadians fight in the Eddy Rebellion
American Declaration of Independence (July 4th)
North West Company formed
David Bushnell invents a submarine
Québec Act PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775- 1783)
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington
American Revolution
Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet
Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
Cook arrives on Easter Island
Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
Census of Acadians in France
East India Company governs Hindustan
Boston Tea Party (16 December)
Judge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery in England
Morning Post' first published (until 1937)
First Travellers' Cheques issued by the London Credit Exchange Company
Jundge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery (14th May)
Right to report Parliamentary debates established in England
Samuel Hearne reaches the Arctic via land travel
Capt James Cook lands in Australia (Botany Bay) ? Aug 21: formally claims Australia for Britain
Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major thoroughfare for maritime communications
Hargreave's jenny invented (textile production)
David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at Stratford-upon-Avon
Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
Ile St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) separated
James Watt invents an improved steam engine
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica' published in Edinburgh by William Smellie
Philip Astley starts his circus in London
Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt
First Iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson
Census of Nova Scotia
Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water
Christie's auction house founded in London by James Christie
Start of 'composite' national records on rainfall in the UK
Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies (repealed the following year)
The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe
First Acadians settle in Louisiana
Stamp Act passed
Indian treaties transferring land to Britain
Mozart produces his first symphony at age eight
James Hargeaves invents the Spinning Jenny (but destroyed 1768)
Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
Treaty of Paris - gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain - (Newfoundland [fishing], Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar], Dakar [gum]) - but English displaces French as the international language
Treaty of Paris
POST-DEPORTATION PERIOD
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
George III
Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba
Earliest Unitarian registers
Treaty signed to end war PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude
George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king. The date conventionally marks the start of the so-called first Industrial Revolution'
Peace treaties between Micmac and British
British capture Quebec PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First use of hangman's drop
Battle of the Plains of Abraham PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland
King George III
George II dies (25th October)
Third Eddystone Lighthouse (John Smeaton's) completed
British Museum opens to the public in London
Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
British Museum opens to the public in London (15th Jan)
Cherokee War
India stops being merely a commercial venture - England begins dominating it politically - The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade
Deportation of the Acadians at Ile Ste Jean (PEI)
Acadians on Ile Royale/Cape Breton are deported to France
India stops being merely a commercial venture
Acadian deportation
British capture Fort Louisburg
Dolland invents a chromatic lens
The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassey (Palashi, June 23) - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive
Admiral Byng shot at Portsmouth for failing to relieve Minorca
The foundation laid for the Empire of India
India - The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British -
John Campbell invents the sextant
Black Hole of Calcutta - 146 Britons imprisoned, most die according to British sources
The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
The Seven Year War with France (Pitt's trade was) begins
French and Indian War
Europe's Seven Years' War - North America's French-Indian war
Second Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed by fire
Deportation of the Acadian population
Period of canal construction began in Britain (till 1827)
Publication of Dictionary of the English Language' by Dr Samuel Johnson
DEPORTATION PERIOD
Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr, Johnson
Postal Service established
The Great Expulsion
Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary
First British troops not belonging to the East India Company despatched to India
In the General Election, the Cow Inn at Haslemere, Surrey caused a national scandal by subdividing the freehold to create eight votes instead of one
Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
The French and Indian War
Hardwicke Act (1753
French and Indian War
First newspaper printed in Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Treaty signed to renew the 1725 Indian Treaties PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Publication of ?Species Plantarum' by Linnaeus and the formal start date of plant taxonomy
Private collection of Sir Hans Sloane forms the basis of the British Museum
Earliest Inghamite registers
French defeat George Washington's military campaign
Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this Sep 14
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor
Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted
Census of Ile St-Jean
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
Beginning of the year 1752 [Scotland had adopted January as the start of the year in 1600, and some other countries in Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar as early as 1582]
Chesterfield's Calendar Act passed - royal assent to the bill was given on 22 May 1751 - decision to adopt Gregorian Calendar in 1752: In and throughout all his
Original Westminster Bridge opened (replaced in 1862 due to subsidence)
Treaty signed to renew the 1725 Indian Treaties PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Series of earthquakes in London and the Home Counties cause panic with predictions of an apocalypse (Feb/Mar)
Neo-Classical Period (Art and Antiques)
Gothic Revival Period (Art and Antiques)
First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (in Green Park, London)
Founding of Halifax
Britain founds Halifax
Couontess Huntington's (Calvanistic) Methodist Connexion founded
Treaty of Aix-de-Chapelle ends French-British war
Battle of Culloden PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Act for Pacification of the Highlands
Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
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
English defeat the forces of Charles Edward Stuart in the Battle of Culloden.
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
Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
Jacobite rebellion in Scotland (The Forty-Five)
Louisbourg taken from France
Scots support James' son Charles Edward Stuart as the king of Great Britain.
E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
France declares war against England PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Great Britain declares war against France PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Tune 'God Save the King' makes its appearance
Church of Scotland split over taking of Burgess' Oath
King George's War
War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War)
(June 27 in Gregorian calendar): Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
England goes to war with Spain -
16th June Battle of Dettingen - last time British soveriegn (George II) led troops into battle
Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers
Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodist or Inghamites
War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain
Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
Last French-rule census
John Wesley has his conversion experience
Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers
Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
Kent's Directory published
Kent's Directory
John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine - Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
Excise crisis; Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine
John Kay invents the flying shuttle
Covent Garden Opera House opens
Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls
Invention of sextant by John Hadley
Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull
Irish famine
Rococo Period (Art and Antiques)
Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain - Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
Methodists begin in Oxford
George II
George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
Board of Manufactoring established in Scotland
King George II
Indian Treaties Signed PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria
Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
Drummer's War
Knatchbull's Act, poor laws
Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
Robert Walpole (whig) becaomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
Manufacturing towns start to increase in population - rise of new wealth
South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley - government assumes control of National Debt
The French begin construction of the fortress at Louisbourg
Irish Famine
South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Esxchange Alley
Third abortive Jacobite rising
Third abortive Jacobite rising
First Masonic Lodge opens in London
Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
First Masonic Lodge opens in London
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell
Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption - general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption -
Census of Acadia
Riot Act passed
Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
Riot Act passed
Scots support James Edward Stuart as the king of Great Britain.
Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
George I
Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
Longitude Act: prize of ?20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
1st August - Queen Anne Stuart died - George I Hanover becomes king
King George I
Census of Acadia
By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty of Utrecht concludes the Was of the Spanish Succession
Nova Scotia created
Treaty of Utrecht
British Fleet runs aground on Ile-aux-Oeufs PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1835)
Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
First race meeting at Ascot
Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork
Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
Port-Royal falls to the British
Tax on Apprentice Indentures
Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
Bad harvests throughout Europe - bread riots in Britain
First Copyright Act pass
Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
First Copyright Act passed
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
First Jacobite rising in Scotland
Queen Anne's war breaks out
First Jacobite rising in Scotland
Census of Acadia
English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament - The Kingdom of Great Britain established - largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March
1st January - Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading pri
Census of Acadia
The Act of Union is formed between Scotland and England, creating Great Britain.
First evening newspaper The Evening Post' issued in London
Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710 or 1711)
First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newman
Battle of Blenheim
Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
Newfoundland census
Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England - about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November (Nov 24 - Dec 2)
British take Gibraltar
Eighth Acadian census
Repeal of Duties on entries in Parish Registers
Census of Acadia
Anne
First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
Anne Stuart becomes Queen
8th March - Anne Stuart becomes Queen
Queen Anne
Queen Ann Period (Art & Antiques)
Queen Anne's War
War of Spanish Succession
After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd hanged in London
Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
Founding of Petitcodiac
Act of Parliament bars Catholice from the British throne
Census of Acadia
Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
Census of Acadia
Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
Invention of steam engine by Captain Thomas Savery
Census of Acadia
Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump
Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
Treaty of Ryswick
2nd December - Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
William III
Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
Freedom of Press in England granted
Bank of Scotland founded
Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
Start of Dissenters' lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish church - some were named 'Papist' and others 'Protestants'
Freedom of the Press
Census of Acadia
Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)
National Debt came into effect in England
Stamp Duties introduced into Britain from Holland
Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
Triennial Act, new Parliamentary elections every three years
Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane (-1699)
National Deb came into effect in England
Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane
Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pierre P?rignon 's invention of Champagne
Census of Acadia
Newfoundland census
The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and murders members of Clan McDonald
Land Tax introduced - originally designed as an annual tax on personal estate, public offices and land. For practical purposes, however, assessors tended to avoid assessing items of wealth other than landed property so that it became known as the Land Ta
French intention to invade England came to nothing
The Massacre of Glencoe
French intention to invade England came to naught
Earliest date in known German Lutheran registers
Newfoundland census
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving Roman Catholic followers of James II
William III and Mary II
The British capture Port-Royal
Great Synagogue founded
Port-Royal captured
The Presbyterian Church is permanently restored and becomes the Church of Scotland.
Bill of Rights passed by Parliament, ending King's divine right to raise taxes or wage war
Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland - Jacobites defeated Government troops but at high cost
Toleration Act passed for Protestant non-conformists
Deposed James VII & II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne (only William, however, has regal power)
Devonport naval dockyard established
King William III and Queen Mary II
Deposed James VII and II flees to Ireland
King William's War
French - Five Nations Indian war
Siege of Londonderry (began Dec 1688; ended 28 Jul 1689)
William of Orange lands at Torbay
The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates
Edward Lloyd's Coffee House opens - later became Lloyd's of London
British Army raised to 40,000
Bill of Rights limits the powers of the monarchy over parliament
Hearth Tax abolished
Mutiny Act
February: Edward Lloyds Coffee House - later became Lloyd's of London
Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' - written in Latin
James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists
St-Charles des Mines Church is built at Grand-Pré
Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
Census of Acadia
James II
James the Second (1685-1689, died 1701) - Monmouth rebellion and battle of Sedgemoor - British Army raised to 20,000 men
Earl of Argyll's Invasion of Scotland
Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
Earl of Argyll's invasion of Scotland
King James II
Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina
Ashmolean Museum opened at Oxford - first museum in Britain
Wild boar become extinct in Britain
6th June: Ashmolean Museum opened at Oxford - first museum on Britain
Founding of Grand-Pré
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
Library of Advocates founded in Edinburgh - later National Library of Scotland
Halley observes the comet which bears his name
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn
Second Test Act (against non-conformists) passed by Westminster Parliament
Oil lighting first used in London streets
Second Test Act (against non-conformists) passed by Westminster Parliament
William Dockwra(y) begins his London Penny Post
Dodo becomes extinct in Mauritius through over-hunting
William Dockwra(y) begins his London Penny Post
Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)
Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England - (later repealed from time to time)
Tories first so named
27th May: Haveas Corpus Act became law in England
Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker
Extension of Test Act to peers
Extension of Test Act to peers
The first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britiannica" published -
Census of Acadia
Lee's Collection of Names of Merchants in London' published
Lee's "Collection of Names of Merchants in London" published
Compton Census, named after its initiator Henry Compton, Bishop of London, was intended to discover the number of Anglican conformists, Roman Catholic recusants and Protestant dissenters in England and Wales from enquiries made in individual parishes
Robert Hooke invents the universal joint
Building of Royal Greenwich Observatory started
King Philip's War
John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England
Beginning of Whig party under Shaftsbury
Rebuilding of St Paul's started by Wren (completed 1710)
Beginning of Whig Party under Shaftsbury
Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch
Treaty of Westminster - Netherlands cedes New Netherlands (on the eastern coast of North America) to Britain
First Test Act deprives British Catholics and Non-conformists of Public Office
First Test Act deprives British Catholics and Non-conformists of Public Office
First European settlement in Great Lakes Region
Founding of Beaubassin
High Court of Justiciary established in Scotland
War with Holland (to 1674) - British Army increased to 10,000 men
High Court of Justiciary established in Scotland
Comte de Frontenac governs New France
Thomas Blood caught stealing the Crown Jewels
First Acadian Census
Census of Acadia
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine
King Charles II and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover
Hudson's Bay Company formed
Treaty of Breda
Earliest Synagogue registers - Bevis Marks
Dom Pérignon invents Champagne
The first reference to a candy cane is made
Last entry in Pepys's diary
Earliest Lutheran registers survive from this year
British East India Company obtains control of Bombay
Newton constructs reflecting telescope
Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope
Treaty of Breda
Great Fire of London, after a drought beginning 27 June (2-6 Sep)
Use of semaphore signalling pioneered by Lord Worcester
Newton formulated Laws of Gravity
2nd to 6th September; Great Fire of London,
Considerable religious unrest on Scotland (The Covenanteers)
First New World Census
The ?London Gazette' first published - one of the official journals of record of the United Kingdom government and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom
Great Plague of London (July-October) kills over 60,000
Five-mile Act restricts non-conformist ministers in Britain
Great Plague of London
Nieuw Amsterdam becomes New York as 300 English soldiers under Col. Mathias Nicolls take the town from the Dutch under orders from Charles II. The town is renamed after the King's brother James, Duke of York
Oak Apple Day - the birthday of Charles II and the day when he entered London at the Restoration; commanded by Act of Parliament in 1664 to be observed as a day of thanksgiving. A special service (expunged in 1859) was inserted in the Book of Common Pray
Earliest Roman Cathilic registers
Great Québec earthquake
Québec becomes a crown colony (royal province) of France
James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope
Act of Uniformity - Acceptance of Book of Common Prayer required - About 2,000 vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists (Presbyterians and Independents) - Persecution of all non-conformists - Presbyterianism dis-established - E
'Hearth Tax' introduced - until 1689 (1690 in Scotland)
Poor Relief Act or Act of Settlement' - gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin (repealed 1834)
Tea introduced to Britain
Hearth Tax
Oliver Cromwell formally 'executed', having been dead for over two years!
Restoration of Episcopacy in Scotland
Board of Trade founded in London
Hand-struck postage stamps first used
Corporation Act prevents non-Anglicans from holding municipal office
Persectution of Non-Conformists in England
First actress plays in London (Margaret Hughes as Desdemona)
Twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society
Ten Regicides are executed at Charing Cross or Tyburn
Restoration of British monarchy (Charles II) - 'Oak Apple Day' - theatres reopened
Charles II
Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
Provincial Probate Courts re-established
Clarendon code restricts Puritans' religious freedom
Composition of light discovered by Newton
Honourable East India Company founded by British
1st January - Samuel Pepys starts his diary
Quaker-Scottish colony was established in East New Jersey
King Charles II
Restoration Period
Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region
Samuel Pepys starts his diary
Date of first known bank cheque to be drawn
Start of national meteorological Temperature records in the UK
6th February - date of first known cheque to be drawn
Lake Superior explored
Death of Oliver Cromwell
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector
Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector (-1660)
Death of Oliver Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector
Post Office established by Act of Parliament [others say 1660]
A few Jews permitted to settle in England
Post Office established by Act of Parliament (others say 1660)
Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock
Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector
Commonwealth period - Oliver Cromwell
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Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques
Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)
Colonial State Papers published
Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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   Date  Event(s)
1383 
  • 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
1574 
  • 1574—1738: Colonial State Papers published
    continued to 1738
1630 
  • 1630—1750: Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques
  • 1630—1750: Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)
1636 
  • 1636—1755: PRE-DEPORTATION PERIOD
1660 
  • 1660—1685: King Charles II
    King Charles II ( 1660 - 1685 ) {\n}{\n}1660 - Charles returns to England from Holland and is restored to the throne.{\n}1662 - Act of Uniformity compels Puritans to accept the doctrines of the Church of England or leave the church.{\n}1665 - Outbreak of
  • 5 May 1660—6 Feb 1685: Charles II
    House of Stuart (restored): Eldest son of Charles I, died without issue. De Jure King from Jan 30, 1649.
1666 
  • 1666—1689: Considerable religious unrest on Scotland (The Covenanteers)
    Covenanteers Rising at St. John's Town of Dalry
1680 
  • 1680—1770: Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)
1685 
  • 1685—1685: James the Second (1685-1689, died 1701) - Monmouth rebellion and battle of Sedgemoor - British Army raised to 20,000 men
  • 1685—1685: Earl of Argyll's Invasion of Scotland
  • 1685—1685: Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported
  • 1685—1685: Earl of Argyll's invasion of Scotland
    James II (1689-1689 died 1701){\n}Monmouth Rebellion and Battle of Sedgemoor{\n}British Army raised to 20,000 men{\n}Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported{\n}Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - drove thousands of Proestants
  • 1685—1688: King James II
    King James II ( 1685 - 1688 ) {\n}{\n}1685 - James succeeds his brother, Charles II.{\n}1685 - Rebellion of the Earl of Argyll in Scotland designed to place the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, on the throne is crushed and Argyll is execut
  • 2 Jun 1685—13 Feb 1689: James II
    House of Stuart (restored): 2nd son of Charles I. Deposed 1688, interregnum Dec 11, 1688, to Feb 13, 1689
1686 
  • 1686—1686: Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
  • 1686—1686: Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs
  • 1686—1686: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
10 1687 
  • 1687—1687: St-Charles des Mines Church is built at Grand-Pré
  • 4 Apr 1687—4 Apr 1687: James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists
  • 5 Jul 1687—5 Jul 1687: Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica' - written in Latin
11 1688 
  • 1688—1688: British Army raised to 40,000
  • 1688—1688: Bill of Rights limits the powers of the monarchy over parliament
  • 1688—1688: Hearth Tax abolished
  • 1688—1688: Mutiny Act
  • 1688—1688: February: Edward Lloyds Coffee House - later became Lloyd's of London
    November: The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates{\n}William of Orange lands in England{\n}William of Hanover and Mary daughter of James II, jointly take the throne - (only William, however, has regal power){\n}British Army raised to 40,000{\n}Bill of
  • Feb 1688—Feb 1688: Edward Lloyd's Coffee House opens - later became Lloyd's of London
  • Nov 1688—Nov 1688: The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates
  • 5 Nov 1688—5 Nov 1688: William of Orange lands at Torbay
  • Dec 1688—Dec 1688: Siege of Londonderry (began Dec 1688; ended 28 Jul 1689)
12 1689 
  • 1689—1689: Devonport naval dockyard established
  • 1689—1702: King William III and Queen Mary II
    King William III and Queen Mary II ( 1689 - 1702 ) {\n}{\n}1689 - Parliament draws up the Declaration of Right detailing the unconstitutional acts of James II. William and Mary become joint sovereigns.{\n}1689 - Bill of Rights is passed in Parliament.{\n}
  • 1689—1689: Deposed James VII and II flees to Ireland
    Defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1690){\n}Earliest Royal Dutch Chapel registers{\n}Seige of Londonderry{\n}Toleration Act for Protestant non-conformists{\n}Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland
  • 1689—1697: King William's War
    English Colonies vs France
  • 1689—1701: French - Five Nations Indian war
  • 13 Feb 1689—13 Feb 1689: William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne (only William, however, has regal power)
  • 12 Mar 1689—12 Mar 1689: Deposed James VII & II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
  • 24 May 1689—24 May 1689: Toleration Act passed for Protestant non-conformists
  • 27 Jul 1689—27 Jul 1689: Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland - Jacobites defeated Government troops but at high cost
  • 16 Dec 1689—16 Dec 1689: Bill of Rights passed by Parliament, ending King's divine right to raise taxes or wage war
  • 2 1689—28 Dec 1694: William III and Mary II
    House of Stuart (restored): Son of William, Prince of Orange, by Mary, daughter of Charles I. Mary eldest daughter of James II. She died 1694.
13 1690 
  • 1690—1690: The British capture Port-Royal
    Port-Royal is captured by the British. It will be renamed Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.
  • 1690—1690: Great Synagogue founded
    Presbyterian fonally established in Scotland{\n}Battle of the Boyne
  • 1690—1690: Port-Royal captured
    British capture Port-Royal and rename it to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
  • 1690—1690: The Presbyterian Church is permanently restored and becomes the Church of Scotland.
  • 20 May 1690—20 May 1690: England passes Act of Grace, forgiving Roman Catholic followers of James II
14 1691 
  • 1691—1691: Earliest date in known German Lutheran registers
  • 1691—1691: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
15 1692 
  • 1692—1692: Land Tax introduced - originally designed as an annual tax on personal estate, public offices and land. For practical purposes, however, assessors tended to avoid assessing items of wealth other than landed property so that it became known as the Land Ta
  • 1692—1692: French intention to invade England came to nothing
  • 1692—1692: The Massacre of Glencoe
    Clan Campbell side with the king and murder members of the Clan McDonald (1691?)
  • 1692—1692: French intention to invade England came to naught
  • 13 Feb 1692—13 Feb 1692: The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell sides with King William and murders members of Clan McDonald
16 1693 
  • 1693—1693: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1693—1693: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 4 Aug 1693—4 Aug 1693: Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pierre P?rignon 's invention of Champagne
17 1694 
  • 1694—1694: National Debt came into effect in England
  • 1694—1694: Stamp Duties introduced into Britain from Holland
  • 1694—1694: Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler
  • 1694—1694: Triennial Act, new Parliamentary elections every three years
  • 1694—1694: Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane (-1699)
  • 1694—1694: National Deb came into effect in England
    Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot){\n}Triennial Act
  • 1694—1699: Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane
  • 27 Jul 1694—27 Jul 1694: Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)
  • 12 1694—8 Mar 1702: William III
    House of Stuart (restored): Reigned alone after death of Mary II
18 1695 
  • 1695—1695: Freedom of Press in England granted
  • 1695—1695: Bank of Scotland founded
  • 1695—1695: Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)
  • 1695—1695: Start of Dissenters' lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish church - some were named 'Papist' and others 'Protestants'
  • 1695—1695: Freedom of the Press
    Bank of Scotland founded{\n}Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed in 1706){\n}Start of "Dissenters" lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish churc
  • 1695—1695: Census of Acadia
    Census of St. Jean River Acadians
19 1696 
  • 1696—1696: Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
    Education Act passed by Scottish Parliament{\n}Window Tax (replaced Hearth Tax) increased in 1747; abolished in 1851)
20 1697 
  • 1697—1697: Treaty of Ryswick
  • 1697—1697: 2nd December - Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
  • 2 Dec 1697—2 Dec 1697: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral
21 1698 
  • 1698—1698: Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery
  • 1698—1698: Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama
  • 1698—1698: Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
  • 1698—1698: Invention of steam engine by Captain Thomas Savery
    Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama{\n}Duties (Taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
  • 1698—1698: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1698—1698: Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump
  • 4 Jan 1698—4 Jan 1698: Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London destroyed by fire
  • 14 Nov 1698—14 Nov 1698: Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier
22 1700 
  • 1700—1700: Population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
  • 1700—1700: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
23 1701 
  • 1701—1701: Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne
  • 1701—1701: Founding of Petitcodiac
  • 1701—1701: Act of Parliament bars Catholice from the British throne
  • 1701—1701: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1701—1701: Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
  • 23 May 1701—23 May 1701: After being convicted of piracy and murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd hanged in London
24 1702 
  • 1702—1702: 8th March - Anne Stuart becomes Queen
    11th March - First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735){\n}War of Spanish Succession (1702- 1713)
  • 1702—1714: Queen Anne
    Queen Anne ( 1702 - 1714 ) {\n}{\n}1702 - Anne succeeds her brother-in-law, William III.{\n}1702 - England declares war on France in the War of the Spanish Succession{\n}1704 - English, Bavarian, and Austrian troops under Marlborough defeat the French at
  • 1702—1714: Queen Ann Period (Art & Antiques)
  • 1702—1713: Queen Anne's War
    English Colonies vs France
  • 1702—1702: War of Spanish Succession
  • 8 Mar 1702—8 Mar 1702: Anne Stuart becomes Queen
  • 11 Mar 1702—11 Mar 1702: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)
  • 3 Aug 1702—1 Aug 1714: Anne
    House of Stuart (restored): 2nd daughter of James II. Died with no living heirs
25 1703 
  • 1703—1703: Eighth Acadian census
    With a population of 1,450, the Acadians are enumerated again.
  • 1703—1703: Repeal of Duties on entries in Parish Registers
    Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 1703—1703: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France counts 1,450
  • 4 Aug 1703—4 Aug 1703: British take Gibraltar
  • 24 Nov 1703—24 Nov 1703: Climate: Most violent storms of the millennium cause vast damage across southern England - about a third of Britain's merchant fleet lost, and Eddystone lighthouse destroyed on 27 November (Nov 24 - Dec 2)
26 1704 
  • 1704—1704: Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military
  • 1704—1704: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland listing only heads of families
  • 13 Aug 1704—13 Aug 1704: Battle of Blenheim
27 1705 
  • 1705—1705: Isaac Newton knighted (for his work at the Royal Mint)
  • 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen (some say c1710 or 1711)
  • 1705—1705: First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newman
28 1706 
  • 1706—1706: First evening newspaper The Evening Post' issued in London
29 1707 
  • 1707—1707: 1st January - Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading pri
    Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March{\n}1st May - English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament - {\n}the Kingdom of Great Britian established{\n}Last use of veto by a British sovereign
  • 1707—1707: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 1707—1707: The Act of Union is formed between Scotland and England, creating Great Britain.
  • 16 Jan 1707—16 Jan 1707: Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March
  • 1 May 1707—1 May 1707: English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament - The Kingdom of Great Britain established - largest free-trade area in Europe at the time
30 1708 
  • 1708—1708: Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
  • 1708—1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
  • 1708—1708: Queen Anne's war breaks out
    Queen Anne's war breaks out and there is unrest with the British.
  • 1708—1708: First Jacobite rising in Scotland
    Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls
  • 1708—1708: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
31 1709 
  • 1709—1709: Bad harvests throughout Europe - bread riots in Britain
  • 1709—1709: First Copyright Act pass
  • 1709—1709: Second Eddystone lighthouse completed
  • 1709—1709: First Copyright Act passed
  • 1709—1709: Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano
  • 2 Feb 1709—2 Feb 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719) by Daniel Defoe
32 1710 
  • 1710—1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures introduced
  • 1710—1710: Port-Royal falls to the British
    Port-Royal falls to the British one last time and now called Annapolis Royal after Queen Anne.
  • 1710—1710: Tax on Apprentice Indentures
33 1711 
  • 1711—1711: Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
  • 1711—1711: Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London
  • 1711—1711: Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork
  • 11 Aug 1711—11 Aug 1711: First race meeting at Ascot
  • 8 1711—23 Aug 1711: British Fleet runs aground on Ile-aux-Oeufs
    950 drown while preparing to attack Québec
34 1712 
  • 1712—1712: Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans
  • 1712—1712: Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
  • 1712—1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)
  • 1712—1712: Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1835)
    Last trial of witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham){\n}Toleration Act passed{\n}First relief to non-Anglicans{\n}Patronage Act - patronage of ministers restored
  • 1712—1712: Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine
35 1713 
  • 1713—1713: By this year there are some 3,000 coffee houses in London
  • 1713—1713: Treaty of Utrecht
    Treaty of Utrecht. Acadia now belongs to England and never again returns to France.
  • 1713—1713: Treaty of Utrecht concludes the Was of the Spanish Succession
  • 1713—1713: Nova Scotia created
    Britain renames Acadia to Nova Scotia
  • 1713—1713: Treaty of Utrecht
    Britain gets possession of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Acadia -- except for Ile Royale (Cape Breton)
36 1714 
  • 1714—1714: Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism
  • 1714—1714: Schism Act, prevents Dissenters from being schoolmasters in England
  • 1714—1714: Longitude Act: prize of ?20,000 offered to the inventor of a workable method of determining a ship's longitude (won by John Harrison in 1773 for his chronometer).
  • 1714—1714: 1st August - Queen Anne Stuart died - George I Hanover becomes king
    Chancery Proceedings filed under Six Clerics{\n}Schism Act{\n}Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism{\n}Quater Sessions Records from this date often mention Protestant dissenters and Roman Cathilic Recusants
  • 1714—1727: King George I
    King George I ( 1714 - 1727 ) {\n}{\n}1714 - George I, the first Hanoverian King, succeeds his distant cousin, Anne.{\n}1714 - A new Parliament is elected with a strong Whig majority led by Robert Walpole. {\n}1715 - The Jacobite rising begins in Scotland
  • 1714—1714: Census of Acadia
    Census of Acadians in New France
  • 8 Jan 1714—Oct 1727: George I
    House of Hanover: Son of Elector of Hanover, by Sohia, granddaughter of James I. Proclaimed King under Act of Settlement
  • 1 Aug 1714—1 Aug 1714: Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727).
37 1715 
  • 1715—1715: Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')
  • 1715—1715: Riot Act passed
    Second Jacobire rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender (the fifteenth)
  • 1715—1715: Scots support James Edward Stuart as the king of Great Britain.
    Called the first Jacobite rebellion.
  • 1 Aug 1715—1 Aug 1715: Riot Act passed
38 1716 
  • 1716—1716: Climate: Thames frozen so solid that a spring tide lifted the ice bodily 13ft without interrupting the frost fair
  • 1716—1716: The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption - general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3 (until 1911)
  • 1716—1716: The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption -
    general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3
  • 1716—1716: Census of Acadia
    Census of Port Toulouse Acadians
39 1717 
  • 1717—1717: First Masonic Lodge opens in London
  • 1717—1717: Value of the golden guinea fixed at 21 shillings
  • 1717—1717: First Masonic Lodge opens in London
  • 1717—1717: Edmond Halley invents the diving bell
40 1719 
  • 1719—1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
  • 1719—1719: Third abortive Jacobite rising
41 1720 
  • 1720—1720: Wallpaper becomes fashionable in England
  • 1720—1720: Manufacturing towns start to increase in population - rise of new wealth
  • 1720—1720: South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley - government assumes control of National Debt
  • 1720—1720: The French begin construction of the fortress at Louisbourg
    The fortress at Louisbourg begins construction.
  • 1720—1720: Irish Famine
  • 1720—1720: South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Esxchange Alley
    Manufacturing towns start to0 increase in population - rise of new wealth
42 1721 
  • 1721—1721: Robert Walpole (whig) becaomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
    Bailey's Northern Directory
  • 2 Apr 1721—2 Apr 1721: Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
43 1722 
  • 1722—1722: Knatchbull's Act, poor laws
  • 1722—1722: Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
  • 1722—1722: Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland
    Knatchbull's Act, poor law
  • 1722—1722: French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
44 1723 
  • 1723—1723: The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
  • 1723—1723: The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching - repealed in 1827
  • 1723—1723: Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
  • 1723—1723: Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate
    The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching{\n}The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
  • 1723—1726: Drummer's War
45 1724 
  • 1724—1724: Longman's founded (Britain's oldest publishing house)
  • 1724—1724: Rapid growth of gin drinking in England
  • 1724—1724: Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
46 1725 
  • 1725—1726: Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria
  • 12 1725—15 Dec 1725: Indian Treaties Signed
    Treaties between Eastern Aboriginal Peoples and Great Britain
47 1726 
  • 1726—1726: Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
  • 1726—1726: First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
  • 1726—1726: First circulating library opened in Edinburgh
    Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison
48 1727 
  • 1727—1727: Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland
  • 1727—1727: Board of Manufactoring established in Scotland
    11th June George I died - George II Hanover becomes king
  • 1727—1760: King George II
    King George II ( 1727 - 1760 ) {\n}{\n}1727 - George succeeds his father, George I.{\n}1732 - A royal charter is granted for the founding of Georgia in America.{\n}1737 - Death of George's wife, Queen Caroline.{\n}1738 - John and Charles Wesley start the
  • 11 Jun 1727—11 Jun 1727: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
  • 6 Nov 1727—25 Oct 1760: George II
    House of Hanover: Only son of George I, married Caroline of Brandenburg
49 1729 
  • 1729—1729: Methodists begin in Oxford
  • 9 Nov 1729—9 Nov 1729: Treaty of Seville signed between Britain, France and Spain - Britain maintained control of Port Mahon and Gibraltar
50 1730 
  • 1730—1730: Irish famine
  • 1730—1750: Rococo Period (Art and Antiques)
51 1731 
  • 1731—1731: Invention of sextant by John Hadley
  • 1731—1731: Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull [others say 1701]
  • 1731—1731: Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull
    Invention of sextant by John Hadley
52 1732 
  • 1732—1732: Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls
  • 7 Dec 1732—7 Dec 1732: Covent Garden Opera House opens
53 1733 
  • 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle, revolutionised the weaving industry
  • 1733—1733: Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
  • 1733—1733: Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine - Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax
  • 1733—1733: Excise crisis; Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine
    Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax{\n}Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
  • 1733—1733: John Kay invents the flying shuttle
54 1734 
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory published
  • 1734—1734: Kent's Directory
55 1737 
  • 1737—1737: Licensing Act restricts the number of London theatres and subects plays to censorship of the Lord Chamberlain (till 1950s)
56 1738 
  • 1738—1738: Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers
    John Wesley has his conversion experience
  • 24 May 1738—24 May 1738: John Wesley has his conversion experience
57 1739 
  • 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
  • 1739—1739: Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival
  • 1739—1739: Last French-rule census
  • 7 Apr 1739—7 Apr 1739: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
  • 23 Oct 1739—23 Oct 1739: War of Jenkins' Ear starts: Robert Walpole reluctantly declares war on Spain
58 1741 
  • 1741—1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers
  • 1741—1741: Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodist or Inghamites
    Earliest Moravian registers{\n}Earliest Scotch Church registers
59 1742 
  • 1742—1742: England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade
  • 1742—1742: England goes to war with Spain -
    incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for sake of trade
  • 1742—1742: 16th June Battle of Dettingen - last time British soveriegn (George II) led troops into battle
60 1743 
  • 16 Jun 1743—16 Jun 1743: (June 27 in Gregorian calendar): Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
61 1744 
  • 1744—1744: Tune 'God Save the King' makes its appearance
  • 1744—1744: Church of Scotland split over taking of Burgess' Oath
    - Burghers and Anti Burghers{\n}First Methodist Conference
  • 1744—1748: King George's War
    French Colonies vs Great Britain
  • 1744—1744: War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War)
    European war sets England against France
  • 4 Sep 1744—9 Apr 1744: Great Britain declares war against France
    New France vs British in Nova Scotia
  • 3 Nov 1744—11 Mar 1744: France declares war against England
    New France vs British in Nova Scotia
62 1745 
  • 1745—1745: Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
  • 1745—1745: Jacobite rebellion in Scotland (The Forty-Five)
    August - Bonnie Prince Charlies (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
  • 1745—1745: Louisbourg taken from France
    Louisbourg captured by Gov. William Shirley of Massachusetts
  • 1745—1745: Scots support James' son Charles Edward Stuart as the king of Great Britain.
    Called the second Jacobite rebellion.
  • 1745—1745: E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor
  • 19 Aug 1745—19 Aug 1745: 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
63 1746 
  • 1746—1746: English defeat the forces of Charles Edward Stuart in the Battle of Culloden.
    After this battle, the English executed many clan chiefs and outlawed kilts and bagpipes. These restrictions were removed in 1782.
  • 16 Apr 1746—16 Apr 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
  • 4 1746—16 Apr 1746: Battle of Culloden
    16th April - last battle fought in Britain - 5000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited
64 1747 
  • 1747—1747: Act for Pacification of the Highlands
  • 1747—1747: Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
  • 1747—1747: Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland
    Act of Pacification of the Highlands
65 1748 
  • 1748—1756: Couontess Huntington's (Calvanistic) Methodist Connexion founded
  • 1748—1748: Treaty of Aix-de-Chapelle ends French-British war
    returns Louisbourg to France
66 1749 
  • 1749—1749: Founding of Halifax
    The English found Halifax and bring 2,576 English settlers to populate and settle the land.
  • 1749—1749: Britain founds Halifax
    2,576 English settlers brought to Halifax to counter French presence at Louisbourg
  • 27 Apr 1749—27 Apr 1749: First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (in Green Park, London)
  • 8 1749—15 Aug 1749: Treaty signed to renew the 1725 Indian Treaties
    N.S. Gov. Cornwallis and Malecites sign treaty
67 1750 
  • 1750—1805: Neo-Classical Period (Art and Antiques)
  • 1750—1770: Gothic Revival Period (Art and Antiques)
  • Feb 1750—Feb 1750: Series of earthquakes in London and the Home Counties cause panic with predictions of an apocalypse (Feb/Mar)
  • 16 Nov 1750—16 Nov 1750: Original Westminster Bridge opened (replaced in 1862 due to subsidence)
68 1751 
  • Mar 1751—Mar 1751: Chesterfield's Calendar Act passed - royal assent to the bill was given on 22 May 1751 - decision to adopt Gregorian Calendar in 1752: In and throughout all his
69 1752 
  • 1752—1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor
  • 1752—1752: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted
    in England (3rd September) - making this September 14th - "Give us back our 11 days!"{\n}Year standard to end 31st December (previously March 24)
  • 1752—1752: Census of Ile St-Jean
    Sieur de la Rocque census of Prince Edward Island
  • 1752—1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
  • 1 Jan 1752—1 Jan 1752: Beginning of the year 1752 [Scotland had adopted January as the start of the year in 1600, and some other countries in Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar as early as 1582]
  • 3 Sep 1752—3 Sep 1752: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this Sep 14
  • 11 1752—22 Nov 1752: Treaty signed to renew the 1725 Indian Treaties
    N.S. Gov. Cornwallis and Micmac sign treaty
  • 3 1752—23 Mar 1752: First newspaper printed in Canada
    The Halifax Gazette begins publication
70 1753 
  • 1753—1753: Private collection of Sir Hans Sloane forms the basis of the British Museum
  • 1753—1753: Earliest Inghamite registers
  • 1753—1753: French defeat George Washington's military campaign
  • 1 May 1753—1 May 1753: Publication of ?Species Plantarum' by Linnaeus and the formal start date of plant taxonomy
71 1754 
  • 1754—1754: First British troops not belonging to the East India Company despatched to India
  • 1754—1754: In the General Election, the Cow Inn at Haslemere, Surrey caused a national scandal by subdividing the freehold to create eight votes instead of one
  • 1754—1754: Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
  • 1754—10 Feb 1763: The French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War The French and Indian War
  • 1754—1754: Hardwicke Act (1753
    Banns to be called and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used{\n}Quakers and Jews Exempt{\n}First British troops not belonging to the East India Company despatched to India{\n}First printed Annual Army Lists
  • 1754—1754: French and Indian War
    France & Indians fight British
72 1755 
  • 1755—1755: Period of canal construction began in Britain (till 1827)
  • 1755—1755: Publication of Dictionary of the English Language' by Dr Samuel Johnson
  • 1755—1763: DEPORTATION PERIOD
  • 1755—1827: Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr, Johnson
    Period of canal construction began in Britian
  • 1755—1755: Postal Service established
    British establish service in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 1755—1763: The Great Expulsion
    Over 10,000 Acadians forced from their Nova Scotia homes by British Governor Charles Lawrence
  • 1755—1755: Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary
  • 9 Feb 1755—2 Sep 1755: Deportation of the Acadian population
    The Acadian Diaspora/Deportation begins and will go on for years. On this date in 1755, Colonel John Winslow proclaimed the Deportation Order.
  • 2 Dec 1755—2 Dec 1755: Second Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed by fire
73 1756 
  • 1756—1756: The Seven Year War with France (Pitt's trade was) begins
  • 1756—1763: French and Indian War
    Also known as Seven Years War. French Colonies vs Great Britain
  • 1756—Feb 1763: Europe's Seven Years' War - North America's French-Indian war
    Montcalm commands French troops against British and Indians in North America
  • 15 May 1756—15 May 1756: The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
  • Jun 1756—Jun 1756: Black Hole of Calcutta - 146 Britons imprisoned, most die according to British sources
74 1757 
  • 1757—1757: The foundation laid for the Empire of India
  • 1757—1757: India - The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British -
    but is defeated at the battle of Plassy {\n}The East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive{\n}Black Hole of Calcutta{\n}The foundation laid for the Empire of India
  • 1757—1757: John Campbell invents the sextant
  • 14 Mar 1757—14 Mar 1757: Admiral Byng shot at Portsmouth for failing to relieve Minorca
  • 23 Jun 1757—23 Jun 1757: The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassey (Palashi, June 23) - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive
75 1758 
  • 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
  • 1758—1758: Deportation of the Acadians at Ile Ste Jean (PEI)
    Acadians who had gone to Ile Ste Jean/Prince Edward Island earlier in agreement with the British Government, or who had fled there later, are deported to France. A group escapes to Malpèque and is not discovered. Later they will be part of the founding fa
  • 1758—1758: Acadians on Ile Royale/Cape Breton are deported to France
  • 1758—1758: India stops being merely a commercial venture
    England begins dominating itpolitically{\n}The East India Comp-any retains its monopoly although is ceased to trade
  • 1758—1758: Acadian deportation
    Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island's Acadians deported to France -- three ships of Acadians sink. Other Acadians flee
  • 1758—1758: British capture Fort Louisburg
    French power declines
  • 1758—1758: Dolland invents a chromatic lens
76 1759 
  • 1759—1759: Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
  • 1759—1759: British Museum opens to the public in London (15th Jan)
    March The first predicted retunr of Halley's comet{\n}Welsey builds 356 Methodist Chapels
  • 1759—1761: Cherokee War
    English Colonists vs Cherokee Indians
  • 15 Jan 1759—15 Jan 1759: British Museum opens to the public in London
  • 16 Oct 1759—16 Oct 1759: Third Eddystone Lighthouse (John Smeaton's) completed
  • 9 1759—13 Sep 1759: Battle of the Plains of Abraham
    General James Wolfe defeats Montcalm but both die (New France Ends--British North America begins)
77 1760 
  • 1760—1760: Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland
  • 1760—1820: King George III
    King George III ( 1760 - 1820 ) {\n}{\n}1760 - George becomes king on the death of his grandfather, George II.{\n}1762 - The Earl of Bute is appointed Prime Minister. Bute proves so unpopular that he needs to have a bodyguard.{\n}1763 - Peace of Paris end
  • 1760—1760: George II dies (25th October)
    George III Hanover, his grandson becomes king{\n}The date conventionally marks the start of the so-called "first Industrial Revolution"{\n}Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland{\n}5th May First use of hangman's drop - last nobleman to be executed (La
  • 5 May 1760—5 May 1760: First use of hangman's drop
  • 2 Oct 1760—10 Feb 1760: British capture Quebec
  • 3 Oct 1760—25 Jun 1761: Peace treaties between Micmac and British
    Micmac recognize British dominion over Nova Scotia
  • 25 Oct 1760—25 Oct 1760: George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king. The date conventionally marks the start of the so-called first Industrial Revolution'
  • 2 1760—23 Feb 1760: Treaty signed to end war
    Malecites & Passamaquoddys sign treaty acknowledging King George III as Sovereign
  • 10 1760—29 Jan 1820: George III
    House of Hanover: Grandson of George II, married Charlotte of Mecklenburg
78 1761 
  • 1761—1761: Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude
  • 16 Jan 1761—16 Jan 1761: British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
79 1762 
  • 1762—1762: Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba
  • 1762—1762: Earliest Unitarian registers
    France surrenders Canada and Florida{\n}Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba
80 1763 
  • 1763—1763: Treaty of Paris - gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain - (Newfoundland [fishing], Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar], Dakar [gum]) - but English displaces French as the international language
  • 1763—1763: Treaty of Paris
    Treaty of Paris. The Seven Years War between France and England ends. All of France's North American possessions now belong to England.
  • 1763—1884: POST-DEPORTATION PERIOD
  • 1763—1763: Treaty of Paris
    gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain - Newfoundland (fishing), Guadaloupe and Martinique (sugar), Dakar (gum) - but English displaces French as the International Language
  • 1763—1763: Treaty of Paris
    Britain controls North American French colonies (except St. Pierre & Micquelon)
81 1764 
  • 1764—1764: Mozart produces his first symphony at age eight
  • 1764—1764: James Hargeaves invents the Spinning Jenny (but destroyed 1768)
  • 1764—1764: Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
  • 1764—1764: Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
  • 1764—1764: Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
  • 1764—1764: James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
  • 8 1764—1862: Indian treaties transferring land to Britain
82 1765 
  • 1765—1765: The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe
  • 1765—1765: First Acadians settle in Louisiana
  • 1765—1765: Stamp Act passed
  • 22 Mar 1765—22 Mar 1765: Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies (repealed the following year)
83 1766 
  • 1766—1766: Start of 'composite' national records on rainfall in the UK
  • 5 Dec 1766—5 Dec 1766: Christie's auction house founded in London by James Christie
84 1767 
  • 1767—1767: Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt
  • 1767—1767: First Iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson
    Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt
  • 1767—1767: Census of Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia census adds religion and ethnic-origin questions
  • 1767—1767: Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water
85 1768 
  • 1768—1768: Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
  • 9 Jan 1768—9 Jan 1768: Philip Astley starts his circus in London
  • 6 Dec 1768—6 Dec 1768: The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica' published in Edinburgh by William Smellie
86 1769 
  • 1769—1769: Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
  • 1769—1769: Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
  • 1769—1769: Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
  • 1769—1769: Ile St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) separated
    Ile St. Jean separated from the Colony of Nova Scotia
  • 1769—1769: James Watt invents an improved steam engine
  • 6 Sep 1769—6 Sep 1769: David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at Stratford-upon-Avon
87 1770 
  • 1770—1770: Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major thoroughfare for maritime communications
  • 1770—1770: Hargreave's jenny invented (textile production)
    28th April - James Cook discovers New South Wales{\n}Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major thoroughfare for maritime communications
  • 28 Apr 1770—28 Apr 1770: Capt James Cook lands in Australia (Botany Bay) ? Aug 21: formally claims Australia for Britain
88 1771 
  • 1771—1771: Right to report Parliamentary debates established in England
  • 1771—1772: Samuel Hearne reaches the Arctic via land travel
89 1772 
  • 1772—1772: Morning Post' first published (until 1937)
  • 1772—1772: First Travellers' Cheques issued by the London Credit Exchange Company
  • 1772—1772: Jundge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery (14th May)
    in England{\n}First Navy Lists published
  • 14 May 1772—14 May 1772: Judge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery in England
90 1773 
  • 1773—1773: Census of Acadians in France
    The 2,370 Acadians in France are enumerated.
  • 1773—1858: East India Company governs Hindustan
  • 1773—1773: Boston Tea Party (16 December)
91 1774 
  • 1774—1774: Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
  • 13 Sep 1774—13 Sep 1774: Cook arrives on Easter Island
  • 6 1774—22 Jun 1774: Québec Act
    Britain extends Québec border to include present-day Ontario and grants religious freedom to Catholics
92 1775 
93 1776 
  • 1776—1776: Somerset House in London becomes the repository of records of population
  • 1776—1776: Watt and Boulton produce their first commercial steam engine
  • 1776—1776: Acadians fight in the Eddy Rebellion
    22 Acadians under the command of Captain Isaie Boudreau fight under Colonel Jonathan Eddy (the Eddy Rebellion) in an effort to retake Fort Cumberland.
  • 1776—1776: American Declaration of Independence (July 4th)
  • 1776—1776: North West Company formed
    Fur traders amalgamate to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company
  • 1776—1776: David Bushnell invents a submarine
  • 4 Jan 1776—1 Apr 1776: First United Empire Loyalists arrive
    UEL refugees arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • 4 Jul 1776—4 Jul 1776: American Declaration of Independence
  • 7 Sep 1776—7 Sep 1776: First attack on a warship by a submarine - David Bushnell's ?Turtle' attacked HMS Eagle in New York harbour. The attack was perhaps spectacular (a charge did detonate beneath the ship) but was nevertheless unsuccessful. 'Turtle' was a one man Affair ma
94 1777 
  • 1777—1777: Samuel Miller of Southampton patents the circular saw.
95 1778 
  • 1778—1778: Captain James Cook explores West Coast
    Captain Cook lands at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island
96 1779 
  • 1779—1779: First Spinning Mills operational in Scotland
  • 1779—1779: First iron bridge built, over the Severn by John Wilkinson
  • 1779—1779: Marc Isambard Brunel opens the first steamdriven sawmill at Chatham Dockyard in Kent
  • 1779—1779: Crompton's mule invented (Textile production)
    First iron bridge built, over the Severn by John Wilkinson{\n}First Spinning Mills operational in Scotland
  • 1779—1779: Industrial Revolution begins to affect Scotland.
  • 1779—1779: Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
  • 14 Feb 1779—14 Feb 1779: Capt James Cook killed on Hawaii
  • 23 Sep 1779—23 Sep 1779: Naval engagement between Britain and USA off Flamborough Head
  • 9 1779—22 Sep 1779: Treaty signed with Micmac to protect British settlers
    Micmac alliance against U.S.A
97 1780 
  • 1780—1780: About this time the word 'Quiz' entered the language, said to have been invented as a wager by Mr Daly, a Dublin theatre manager
  • 1780—1780: Fountain pen invented
  • 1780—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
  • 1780—1780: Male Servants Tax
  • 1780—1780: 4th May First Derby run at Epsom
    2nd-8th June - Gordon Riots - Parl;iament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure - for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread{\n}Earliest Wesleyan registers{\n}Male Servants Tax{\n}The English Reform Movement - until now, only
  • 1780—1780: Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses
  • 1780—1780: Gervinus invents the circular saw
  • 4 May 1780—4 May 1780: First Derby run at Epsom (some say 2nd June)
  • 2 Jun 1780—2 Jun 1780: Jun 2- 8: The Gordon Riots - Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure - for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread
98 1781 
  • 1781—1781: First UEL settlers in Niagara
    Loyalists from Butler's Rangers settle in Niagara area
99 1782 
  • 1782—1782: James Watt patents his steam engine
  • 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
  • 1782—1782: Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief -
    t5he way of life of the poor beginning to alter due to a workforce that would adjust to new work patterns{\n}James Watt patents his steam engine
  • 1 Jan 1782—1 Jan 1782: Massive Loyalist migration from U.S. begins
    Loyalists head to Nova Scotia (New Brunswick) as outcome of war determined
100 1783 
  • 1783—1783: Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries!
  • 1783—1783: Duty on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794)
    Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon{\n}3rd Sept. Treaty of Versailles (England/US)
  • 1783—1783: Eastern Canada - U.S.A. border established
    border set from the Atlantic to Lake-of-the-Woods
  • 1783—1783: Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
  • 1783—1783: Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute
  • 1783—1783: Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon
  • 1783—1783: Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock
  • 9 Mar 1783—3 Sep 1783: Treaty of Versailles
    Britain Loses War With U.S & British North America Defined
  • 3 Sep 1783—3 Sep 1783: Treaty of Versailles (Britain/US)
  • 3 Nov 1783—3 Nov 1783: Last public execution at Tyburn in London (John Austin, a highwayman)
  • 4 1783—26 Apr 1783: Loyalist migration from New York
    7,000 Loyalists sail to Nova Scotia (including New Brunswick) as outcome of war determined
101 1784 
  • 1784—1784: Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle
  • 1784—1784: First golf club founded at St Andrews
  • 1784—1784: Wesley breaks with the Church of England
  • 1784—1784: Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics
  • 1784—1784: Pitt's India Act -
    the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics{\n}Wesley breaks with Church of England{\n}First edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3 years){\n}2 nd Aug. First Mail coaches in Engl
  • 1784—1784: Grand River Reserve created
    Indian chief Joseph Brant leads 4,000 indians from U.S. to Six Nations' Reservation
  • 1784—1789: Mass migration of Loyalists
    Migration starts with 6,000 Americans & 1,000 Iroquois led by Joseph Brant. Total reaches 10,000 by end of decade
  • 1784—1784: Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
  • 1784—1784: Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock
  • 2 Aug 1784—2 Aug 1784: First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
  • 8 1784—16 Aug 1784: Cape Breton Island created
    Cape Breton Island separated from Nova Scotia
  • 8 1784—16 Aug 1784: New Brunswick created
    New Brunswick created from part of Nova Scotia
102 1785 
  • 1785—1785: Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
  • 1785—2 Apr 1795: Northwest Indian War
    Northwest Indian War Northwest Indian War
  • 1785—1785: Acadians sail from France to Louisiana
    Acadians numbering 1,600 sail from France to settle in Louisiana. Some of their relatives had gone there earlier. They will become known as Cajuns.
  • 1785—1785: Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
  • 1785—1785: Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance
  • 1785—1785: Blanchard invents a working parachute
  • 1785—1785: Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
  • 1785—1785: Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching
  • 1 Jan 1785—1 Jan 1785: John Walter publishes first edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3 years)
103 1786 
  • 1786—1786: John Fitch invents a steamboat