Timeline of British history (1700–1799)
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This article presents a timeline of events in British history from 1700 AD until 1799 AD.
Timeline of British history (1600-1699) Timeline of British history (1800-1899)
[edit] 1700 AD - 1799 AD
- 1701 England - Act of Settlement 1701 requires the English monarch to be Protestant
- 1702 England and Scotland - King William III dies on March 19 and is succeeded by his sister-in-law Queen Anne.
- 1704 England and Scotland - Gibraltar captured on August 4 by the combined Dutch and British fleet under the command of Admiral George Rooke
- 1704 England - An English and Dutch army under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeats the army of Louis XIV of France at Battle of Blenheim in Bavaria
- 1706 England and Scotland - The Treaty of Union is agreed, on July 22, between representatives of England's and Scotland's parliamemts
- 1707 England and Scotland - Acts of Union are passed by the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland to ratify Treaty of Union.
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- The United Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being on May 1, 1707.[1]
- 1714 Queen Anne dies and is succeeded by King George I; start of the Hanoverian dynasty
- 1715 Jacobite Rising
- 1716 Disarming Act attempts to secure the peace of the Scottish Highlands
- 1719 Attempted Spanish invasion in support of Jacobites - fleet sailing for England dispersed by storms, troops land in Scotland, defeated at Battle of Glen Shiel
- 1720 Collapse of the South Sea Company, the South Sea Bubble, results in a London stock market crash in which the average depreciation in value in stock was c. 98%.
- June 11, 1727 King George I dies and is succeeded by his son King George II
- October 23, 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear - Prime Minister Robert Walpole declares war against Spain
- 1743 War of Austrian Succession - open, but unofficial, hostilities between Britain and France
- September 13, 1743 Britain signs the Treaty of Worms with Austria and Sardinia
- 1744 large-scale French invasion attempt on southern England with Charles Edward Stuart stopped by storms, France declares war
- 1745 Britain and allies lose the Battle of Fontenoy in Flanders
- September 21, 1745 Battle of Prestonpans
- 1745 Jacobite Rising
- 1746 The Act of Proscription seeks to crush the Scottish clans, the kilt banned.
- 1754 - 1763 -- French and Indian War in the North American English colonies.
- 1760 King George II dies and is succeeded by his grandson, King George III.
- April 16, 1746 Battle of Culloden effectively ends the Jacobite Rising
- 1755 Dr Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language
- 1773 Boston Tea Party in North America presages revolt against British rule.
- 1776 United States Declaration of Independence
- 1788: First European settlement established in Australia at Sydney.
- 1798 Battle of the Nile
