History of England/Timelines

(Sources: 1700-1999 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 pages 977 and 1005) Template:TOC-right

Eighteenth century

1707    Act of Union - with Scotland.

1713    Treaty of Utrecht.

1714     Hanoverian succession.
              George I (1714-27)

1715    First Jacobite Rising

1739-48    War of Jenkins Ear - with Spain.

1744-8    War of the Austrian Succession.

1745    Second Jacobite Rising - "the '45"

1746    Battle of Culloden.

1756-63    Seven Years War - acquisition of India and Canada.

1776-81    War of American Independence - the creation of the United States of America.

1787     Kingdom of Ireland granted autonomy.

1793-1815    French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.