Timeline of British history (1700-1799)
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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the British Isles from 1700 AD until 1799 AD.
Timeline of British history (1600-1699) Timeline of British history (1800-1899)
[edit] 1700 AD - 1799 AD
- 1701 The English Act of Settlement 1701 requires the monarch to be Protestant
- March 19, 1702 King William III dies and is succeeded by his sister-in-law Queen Anne.
- August 4, 1704 Gibraltar captured by the combined Dutch and British fleet under the command of Admiral George Rooke
- 1704 An English and Dutch army under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeats the army of Louis XIV of France at Blindheim in Bavaria, the Battle of Blenheim
- 1707 The Acts of Union unite England and Scotland as the united Kingdom of Great Britain
- 1708 War of the Spanish Succession - failed French invasion with the Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart"
- 1713 The Peace of Utrecht
- August 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
