Timeline of British history (1700–1799)

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) __NOTOC__

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
*1706 The Treaty of Union is agreed, on July 22nd, between representatives of England's and Scotland's parliamemts
*1707 The [Acts of Union]
* 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

See also

* Kingdom of Great Britain
* Timeline of British history
* History of the British Isles
* History of England
**History of London
* History of Ireland
* History of Northern Ireland
* History of Scotland
* History of Wales
* History of the United Kingdom
* List of years in Great Britain