Timeline of British history (1700–1799)

This article presents a timeline of events in British history from 1700 AD until 1799 AD.

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 19 March and is succeeded by his sister-in-law, Queen Anne.
1704 Gibraltar captured on 23 August 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 the Battle of Blenheim in Bavaria
1706 England and Scotland - The Treaty of Union is agreed, on 22 July, between representatives of the parliament of England and the parliament of Scotland.
1707 England and Scotland - Acts of Union are passed by the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland to ratify the Treaty of Union.

The Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being on 1 May 1707.^[1]

1714 Queen Anne dies and is succeeded by King George I, first 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 the 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 some 98%.
11 June 1727 King George I dies and is succeeded by his son King George II
23 October 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear - On the advice of Prime Minister Robert Walpole, war is declared on Spain
1743 War of Austrian Succession - open, but unofficial, hostilities between Great Britain and France
13 September 1743 Great 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 Great Britain and her allies lose the Battle of Fontenoy in Flanders
21 September 1745 Battle of Prestonpans
1745 Second Jacobite Rising
1746 The Act of Proscription seeks to crush the Scottish clans, the kilt banned.
1746 16 April, Battle of Culloden effectively ends the second Jacobite Rising
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.