Frank Slide, Alberta PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity

Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada

Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship

Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration

The title 'Prime Minister' noted in a royal warrant for the first time - placed the Prime Minister in order of precedence in Britain immediately after the Archbishop of York

Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2

Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers

America takes over construction of the Panama Canal from the French (completed 1914)

France and UK sign the Entente Cordiale

Leeds University established

Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan

Benjamin Holt invents a tractor

John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve

First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright

Census of Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Women's Social and Political Union formed in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst

Henry Ford sets up his motor company

Workers' Education Association (WEA) formed in Britain

Canada loses the Alaska Boundary Dispute to the USA

Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons

Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens

The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane

Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers

William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs

Edward VII

Coronation of Edward VII

Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War

Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated

Theodore Roosevelt

Marie Curie discovers radioactivity

Cremation Act - cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued

Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education

Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner

French physicist George Claude invents neon light

The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie

The birth of the Teddy Bear

First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland

Britain's first submarine launched

Theodore Roosevelt

Boer War PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War

Queen Victoria's funeral - interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park

Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king

Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner

Commonwealth of Australia founded

King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor

The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission

Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner

Labour Party formed

Davis Cup tennis competition established

School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years

Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified

Escalator shown at Paris exhibition

The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator

Boxer Rebellion

Start of Second Boer War

Spanish-American War PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Philippine-American War

Aspirin first marketed by Bayer

The Yukon joins Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner

I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame

Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized

The first solo circumnavigation of the globe completed at Rhode island by Joshua Slocum in Spray (started from Boston, Mass on Apr 24, 1895)

Spanish-American War

USS Holland launched, the first practical submarine

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company founded

Zeppelin builds airship

First photograph using artificial light

Klondike gold rush

Yukon gold rush

Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine

Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster

William McKinley

William McKinley

Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector

Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio

First modern Olympic Games held in Athens

Utah PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Gold discovered in Yukon

American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel

X-rays discovered

First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey

First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain

Oscar Wilde sent to prison

Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted

The National Trust founded in England

Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London

Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one

Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe

Death duties first introduced in Britain

Tower Bridge first opens

Blackpool Tower opens

Picture postcard introduced in Britain

Manchester Ship Canal opens

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

Zip fastener invented

Henry Ford's first car

American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper

Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum

Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere

Electric oven invented

Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18's

Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask

Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine

Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera

Census of Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)

First telephone link between London & Paris

Primary education made free and compulsory

First Children's Aid Society is established in Toronto

Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator

City & South London Railway opens - London's first deep-level tube railway and first major railway in the world to use electric traction

Wyoming PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Idaho

Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build

Indian Territory Organized

Oklahoma Territory Organized

Washington

Length of a metre defined

Montana

Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast

Children's charity NSPCC launched in London

Benjamin Harrison

Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)

Benjamin Harrison

South Dakota

North Dakota

Dock Strike - docker's won their 'Docker's Tanner' 6 old pennies

Celluloid film produced

Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act

Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder

Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook

Football League formed

First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film

Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre

County Councils set up in Britain

Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year

Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace

Voting rights extended

John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire

Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer

Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws

Coal mine explosion in Nanaimo, BC

Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car

German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar

Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire

Emile Berliner invents the gramophone

F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses

Putney Bridge opens in London

Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named 'Coca-Cola'

Louis Riel hanged PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales

Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle

John Pemberton invents Coca Cola

Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher

First electric tramcar used at Blackpool

The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel

Canadian Pacific Railway Completed

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking

Canadian Pacific Railway completed

Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle

Eastman makes first coated photographic paper

Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car

Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine

Harim Maxim invents the machine gun

Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle

Greenwich made prime meridian of the world

John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes

Second Acadian Convention at Miscouche

Voting rights extended

James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register

Charles Parson patents the steam turbine

Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen

George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon

Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave

Parcel post starts in Britain

Brooklyn Bridge, New York opens (crosses East River)

Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France

Chester A. Arthur

Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed

Home children arrive

Northwest Territories divided

Gunfight at OK Corral

Chester A. Arthur

Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)

Census of Canada

James Garfield

James A. Garfield

Postal Orders introduced

Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy

First Acadian Convention at Memramcook

David Houston patents the roll film for cameras

Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector

Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano

Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK

Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria

Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds

Chinese build railroad

Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph

The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper

Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time

CID established at New Scotland Yard

Edison & Swan invent electric lamp

Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb

Rutherford Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes

Edison invents microphone and phonograph

Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph

Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures

Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights

Colorado

Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine

Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper

The Great Nova Scotia Cyclone PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

London's main sewage system completed

Supreme Court of Canada established

Western Indian treaties signed

Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)

Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York

Nova Scotia coal mine explosion PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Factory Act introduces 56-hour week

Voting rights extended

American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher

Prince Edward Island joins Canada

North-West Mounted Police created

Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire

American ship 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned by the British brig 'Dei Gratia' in the Atlantic Ocean

British Columbia joins Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)

Licensing hours introduced

Chinese and First Nations banned from voting in BC

Dominion Land Act

A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog

J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill

Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal

Opening of Royal Albert Hall, London

First Rugby Football international, England v Scotland, played in Edinburgh

Manitoba created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Northwest Territories created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Dominion of Canada Census

15th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

First British postcard - halfpenny post

Rupert's Land joins Canada

15th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Wyoming Territory Organized

Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa

Water closets come into wide use

Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children

GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)

First census of British Columbia

Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton

14th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Ulysses Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Ontario begins BMD registration

Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented

Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)

Vote given to male British subjects

J P Knight invents traffic lights

George Westinghouse invents air brakes

Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel

13th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation

10-year census taking becomes a legal requirement

Confederation

14th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Nebraska

Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter

Nevada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Andrew Johnson

Montana Territory Organized

Fenian Raids

Ontario Gold Rush

Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo

J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener

Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London

13th Amendment ratified

Andrew Johnson

Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA

First concrete roads built in Britain

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]

Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened

Arizona Territory Organized

Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention

West Virginia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time

A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship

Kansas PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Colorado Territory Organized

Idaho Territory Organized

First section of the London Underground Railway opens

Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England

Football Association founded (UK)

Denmark goes to war against Prussia and Austria. In the Treaty of Prague (1866), Denmark cedes Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia (Ge

First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard

Civil War

Canadian census PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks)

Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic

Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun

American Civil War begins

American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

South Dakota Territory Organized

Nevada Territory Organized

North Dakota Territory Organized

Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator

Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle

Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock

First tram service in Europe starts in Birkenhead

Oregon PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

The Maple Leaf

Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'

Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge opened at Saltash giving rail link between Devon and Cornwall

Work started on building the Suez canal (opened 17 Nov 1869)

Peaceful picketing legalised in Britain

Minnesota PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London

'The great stink' - smell of the River Thames forced Parliament to stop work

Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine

Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine

James Buchanan

James Buchanan

Work starts on the laying of the Transatlantic cable

Ottawa is declared the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria

George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel

Nebraska Territory Organized

Victoria Cross created by Royal Warrant, backdated to 1854 to recognise acts during the Crimean War (first award ceremony 26 June 1857)

End of Crimean War

Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation

Civil registration begins.

Ice Hockey

Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor

Georges Audemars invents rayon

Ottawa named

Battle of Balaklava in Crimea (charge of the Light Brigade)

Britain declares war on Russia (Crimean War)

Cigarettes introduced into Britain

John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Washington Territory Organized

Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain

George Cayley invents a manned glider

First "thorough" Canadian census PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement

Wells Fargo established in USA

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents a gyroscope

Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - unsuccessful design

Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ('Crystal Palace' exhibition) opened in Hyde Park

Gold discovered in Australia

First Canadian postage stamp

Toronto-Buffalo rail line constructed

Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine

Millard Fillmore

New Mexico Territory Organized

California

Utah Territory Organized

Millard Fillmore

Wisconsin PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent

County government

Annexation Manifesto PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor

Minnesota Territory Organized

Oregon Territory Organized

Florin (2 shilling coin) introduced as the first step to decimalisation - which finally occurred in 1971!

Canada's 49th parallel border is extended to the Pacific Ocean

Official bilingualism

Walter Hunt invents the safety pin

Waterloo railway station in London opens

Iowa PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Mexican-American War PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California - starts the California gold rush

First commercial production of chewing gum

1842's followup census completed

Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair

Kansas Territory Organized

Texas PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

US Mormons make Salt Lake City their centre

Longfellow writes the poem Evangeline

Typhus epidemic

Influenza epidemic

Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics

An anesthetic used for the first time in England (James Simpson used ether to numb the pain of labour)

The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe

Canada-U.S. Boundary Completed

Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction

James Polk

The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry

James K. Polk

Florida

Tarmac laid for first time (in Nottingham)

USA doubles cost of passage to American ports

American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine

Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire

YMCA founded in London by Sir George Williams

Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton

Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched

The Great Hall of Euston station opened in London

First Christmas card in England

Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile

Treaty of Nanking - End of First Opium War - Britain gains Hong Kong

Ether used as an anesthetic for the first time (by Dr Crawford Long in America)

First major census taken

Income Tax reintroduced in Britain

Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator

Act of Union PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

June 6: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded (Population 18.5M)

John Tyler

John Tyler

William H. Harrison

William Henry Harrison

Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp

Thomas Cook starts package tours

The first census of genealogical value is taken.

Samuel Slocum patents the stapler

Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally

Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed elsewhere)

Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain

Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint

Michigan PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber

Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel,thus creating the first true 'bicycle' in the modern Sense

First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) - Britain captures Hong Kong

Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography

Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle

American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization

Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell

American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales

Durham Report

Iowa Territory Organized

Rebellion of Hastings County, Ontario

Victoria

Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey

Samual Morse invents Morse Code

Wisconsin Territory Organized

Euston Railway station opens - first in London

Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace

Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales - Registration Districts were formed covering several parishes; initially they had the same boundaries as the Poor Law boundaries set up in 1834

William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)

Mackenzie Rebellion

Martin van Buren

Arkansas PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Martin Van Buren

Upper Canada Rebellion

Lower Canada Rebellion

P&O Founded

Pitman introduces his shorthand system

Samuel Morse invents the telegraph

English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp

Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

Mexican-American War

The Alamo falls to Mexican troops - death of Davy Crockett

Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'

Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened ? considered the world's first modern suspension bridge

First Potato famine in Ireland

Samuel Colt invented the first revolver

First formal police force PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Texas War of Independence

First railway boom period starts in Britain construction of Great Western Railway

Christmas becomes a national holiday

Second Seminole War

Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller

Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography

Solymon Merrick patents the wrench

Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator

Slavery abolished in British possessions

'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities

Cholera epidemic - Canada West

Babbage invents forerunner of the computer

Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine)

Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent

Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9

Cholera epidemic - Canada West PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Abolition of slavery

Britain invades the Falkland Islands

Reform Bill passed ? Representation of the People Act

Black Hawk War

William IV

Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle

Electric telegraph invented by Morse

Electoral Registers introduced

Texas Revolutionary War

Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope

'New' London Bridge opens (replaced 1973) ? old bridge (which had existed for over 600 years) then demolished

James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole

Lower Canada (Quebec) census

A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled

Marriage Act amended

American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper

Michael Faraday invents an electric dynamo

George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened by the Duke of Wellington ? first mail carried by rail, and first death on the railway as William Huskisson, a leading politician, is run over!

Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and the Bourbons ? Louis Philippe (the Citizen King) on the throne

Uprisings and agitation across Europe: the Netherlands are split into Holland and Belgium

Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine

George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to complete the trial!)

First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Guelph, Ontario, tornado

Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind

London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed 'Bobbies' after Sir Robert Peel

Roman Catholics are permitted by law to buy and inherit property and keep records.

Welland Canal opens

William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter

Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing

American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter

St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)

Military rolls taken in Canada West (Ontario)

Naturalization commences

Ohm's Law published

Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone

John Walker invents the modern matches

Lower Canada (Quebec} census PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Red River flooding

Stockton to Darlington Railway opens ? world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains

The Miramichi Fire

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet

Florida Territory Organized

National Gallery in London opens to the public

Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck' until 1854)

Portland cement patented

RSPCA established

Canada (Land) Company formed

First annual numerical census of Upper Canada

Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon

Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material

US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')

Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School

Peel begins penal reforms ? death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes

New laws concerning marriage by license ? 'very troublesome' according to some the Act was repealed all in a hurry at the beginning of the next session

Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland

Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society

George IV

Missouri PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena

Maine PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Constable paints 'The Hay Wain'

Faraday publishes 'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation'

Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her ? George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ? Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords

Regent's Canal in London opens

Alabama PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent

Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition

Cato Street Conspiracy ? plot to assissinate British cabinet

Cape Breton Island re-annexed to Nova Scotia

Militia land grants

Peterloo Massacre at Manchester ? a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester ? demand Parliamentary Reform ? mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others

SS 'Savannah' first steamship to cross Atlantic reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 Days reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 Days mostly under sail)

Arkansas Territory Organized

Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles

Britain returns to gold standard

Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular

René Laënnec invents the stethoscope

Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain"

'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length

Illinois

Manchester cotton spinners' strike

First Seminole War

The 49th parallel becomes border

Mississippi

James Monroe

James Monroe

Alabama Territory Organized

Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'

March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended

Indian Wars

Census of Nova Scotia

Indiana

Battle of Lacolle Mills PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Battle of Lundy's Lane PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Trans-Atlantic packet service begins

Large scale emigration to North America

Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years

Income tax abolished

For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage

Treaty of Ghent PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Battle of Cook's Mills (Lyons Creek) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena

Burning of St. Davids PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Battle for Prarie du Chien PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Siege at Fort Erie PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Battles of Niagara frontier PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Battle of Fort York (Toronto) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Second Barbary War

Battle of Chateauguay PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Capture of Fort George PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

British incentive to emigrate to Upper Canada

Trial by Jury established in Scotland

Davy develops the safety lamp for miners

Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp

Treaty of Ghent signed ending the 1812 war between Britain and the US

Battle of Beaver Dam PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

'The Times' first printed by a 'mechanical apparatus' (at 1100 sheets per hour)

Battle of Ogdensburg, NY PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

The British burn the White House

Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch

Louisiana PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Earl of Selkirk establishes Red River Colony (Winnipeg) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Battle at Chippawa

Battle of Frenchman's Creek PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end

Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba

U.S. raids into Western Upper Canada

Capture of Fort Erie

At the Treaty of Kiel, Denmark is compelled to cede Norway to Sweden

George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph

German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects

The first plastic surgery is performed in England

Invasion of France by Allies

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

King George's War

Rococo Period (Art and Antiques)

George II

King George II

Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)

PRE-DEPORTATION PERIOD

Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques

Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)

Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury