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410 Emperor
Honorius
tells Britain
to look to its own defences, effectively ending Roman
rule in Britain
.
1089 August 11, powerful earthquake
recorded in Britain
1250 Albertus Magnus
isolates the element arsenic
. He also first uses the word oriole to describe a type of bird (most likely the golden oriole of Great Britain).
1603 Coronation of James I of England
. By some criteria this was the start of the modern Great Britain
1606 Storm buries a village of St Ishmail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain
.
1606 The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
1621 The ''Mayflower'' sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.
1630 Paramaribo, Suriname is first settled by the British
.
1647 The battle of Dungans Hill, Irish
forces are defeated by British
Parliament
ary forces.
1701 The English Parliament
passes the Act of Settlement 1701, passing the crown of Great Britain to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her descendants on the death of Princess Anne
, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother in law, King William III
.
1707 First Parliament of Great Britain.
1709 Battle of Malplaquet - Great Britain, Netherlands
and Austria
defeat France
1718 Austria
, Great Britain, and France
declare war on Spain
, launching the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
1736 Battle of Ackia: British
and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French
troops.
1739 Great Britain declares war on Spain
. This becomes known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1743 Treaty of Worms (1743) - a treaty between Great Britain, Austria
and Sardinia
1754 Britain
and its colonies adopted a new Marriage Act that formulated many of the rules of modern marriage.
1762 Great Britain Seizes Havana
and makes it an Open Port
1763 The Treaty of Paris signed by Great Britain, France
and Spain
brings an end to the Seven Years' War
(also called the French and Indian War
in the United States
and the War of the Conquest in Quebec
)
1763 French and Indian War
: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France
cedes Canada
to Great Britain.
1770 James Cook
claims the eastern coast of New Holland
(Australia
) for Great Britain .
1780 American Revolutionary War
: Charleston, South Carolina
is taken by British
forces.
1780 American Revolutionary War: British
spy John André is hanged by American
forces.
1783 American Revolutionary War
: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America
.
1788 Australia Day: 11 ships of First Fleet from Botany Bay
led by Arthur Phillip
land in what would become Sydney
, Australia
. Great Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales
, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
1788 Henry Benedict Stuart
becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and the figurehead of Jacobitism
.
1793 France
declares war on Great Britain, the Netherlands
(see French Revolutionary Wars
)
1798 Irish
nationalists launch bloody rebellion
against British
occupation.
1800 Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland
into the United Kingdom
to take effect on 1 January 1801. The act is signed by King George III
in August.
1801 Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland
completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
.
1846 Railway Mania in Britain
reaches its zenith.
1856 Anglo-Persian War: War Is declared between Great Britain and Persia.
1940 World War II
: Agreement between United States
and Great Britain announced. Fifty U.S. destroyers needed for escort work transferred to Britain
. In return, the United States
gains 99-year leases on British
bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
1963 The Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published in Great Britain.
1963 Zanzibar
gains independence from Great Britain as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1975 The Birmingham Six
are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain.
1983 Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British
Labour Party
.
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