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United Kingdom

2,031 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for United Kingdom, 1707 CE to 2025 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

18th century

1,012 entries, 1707 CE to 1799 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 170712 May (1 May Old Style) – The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which ratified the Treaty of Union: the kingdoms of England and Scotland are combined into a single, United Kingdom and merge the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain. The Equivalent, a sum of £398,000, is paid to Scotland by the English government due to Scotland now taking on shared responsibility for England’s national debt.United Kingdomsource
  • 170815 November – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("the Elder"), Prime Minister (died 1778)United Kingdomsource
  • 1711Blast furnace for the production of charcoal iron erected at Backbarrow in the north west of England; it will be in production until the 1960s.United Kingdomsource
  • 1714July – first Roman Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar in Scotland.United Kingdomsource
  • 171724 June – Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (the later United Grand Lodge of England), is founded.United Kingdomsource
  • 1720September – "South Sea Bubble": share prices, led by those of the South Sea Company, collapse.United Kingdomsource
  • 172416 November – Thief Jack Sheppard is hanged in London. (His partner-in-crime, highwayman Joseph Blake, alias "Blueskin", was similarly executed five days earlier.)United Kingdomsource
  • 172926 April – the House of Commons is adjourned for lack of a quorum for the first time since one of 40 was fixed in 1640.United Kingdomsource
  • 173216 July – Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679)United Kingdomsource
  • 173625 March – Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c. 1661)United Kingdomsource
  • 1740Henry Hindley invents a device to cut the teeth of clock wheels.United Kingdomsource
  • 174313 February – Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist (died 1820).United Kingdomsource
  • 1748Henry Fielding organises the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners, with eight men at first.United Kingdomsource
  • 17521 January – the British Empire (except Scotland, which had changed New Year's Day to 1 January in 1600) adopts today as the first day of the year as part of adoption of the Gregorian calendar, which is completed in September: today is the first day of the New Year under the terms of last year's Calendar Act.United Kingdomsource
  • 175714 March – Seven Years' War: Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch in The Solent after his court martial conviction for breach of the Articles of War in failing in the Battle of Minorca (1756) to save British troops who had been besieged by a numerically superior French force in the Siege of Fort St Philip (1756). The execution is largely opposed by the Admiralty and the House of Commons. General Edward Cornwallis, the ranking British Army officer at the battle, is exonerated of charges of dereliction of duty, but his career is ruined.United Kingdomsource
  • 1762Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Scottish Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.United Kingdomsource
  • 176522 March – Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied on the American colonies.United Kingdomsource
  • 176913 April – first voyage of James Cook: James Cook arrives in Tahiti on the ship HM Bark Endeavour, preparing to observe the transit of the planet Venus, which takes place on 3 June. After the voyage, the data is found to be inaccurate in determining the distance between the Sun and Earth.United Kingdomsource
  • 177327 April – Parliament passes the Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 44), designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.United Kingdomsource
  • 177716 August – American Revolution: at the Battle of Bennington British and Brunswicker forces are decisively defeated by American troops.United Kingdomsource
  • 17809 August – American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.United Kingdomsource
  • 178327 November – English rector John Michell concludes that some stars might have enough gravity force to prevent light escaping from them, so he calls them "dark stars".United Kingdomsource
  • 178723 December – Captain William Bligh sets sail from Spithead for Tahiti on HMS Bounty.United Kingdomsource
  • 179110 June – Roman Catholic Relief Act, relieving Catholics of certain political, educational and economic disabilities.United Kingdomsource
  • 179510 to 12 February – great floods on the Rivers Severn and Wye result from ice breakup, snowmelt and heavy rainfall; many bridges damaged.United Kingdomsource

19th century

830 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 18004 September – Siege of Malta (1798–1800): The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who have been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.United Kingdomsource
  • 1803Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, a satire on Gothic fiction, is advertised by a London publisher but is not in fact published until 1817, after her death.United Kingdomsource
  • 180620 October – HMS Athenienne is wrecked in the Strait of Sicily with the loss of 347 of the 488 onboard.United Kingdomsource
  • 18103 May – Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.United Kingdomsource
  • 181321 July – Doctrine of the Trinity Act provides toleration for Unitarian worship.United Kingdomsource
  • 1816The Coinage Act and Great Recoinage attempt to stabilise the currency by reintroduction of a silver coinage (for transactions under forty shillings) and changing the gold coinage from the guinea valued at 21 shillings to the slightly lighter sovereign worth 20 shillings and defining the value of the pound sterling relative to gold.United Kingdomsource
  • 182128 May – The national census is the first to measure age distribution and reveals that almost half of the population is under twenty years old. Over the preceding decade in England and Wales the population has increased by 18%.United Kingdomsource
  • 18242 April – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London which opens to the public in his former townhouse on 10 May.United Kingdomsource
  • 182817 April – Royal Free Hospital, established as the London General Institution for the Gratuitous Care of Malignant Diseases by surgeon William Marsden, opens.United Kingdomsource
  • 18327 August – William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury because of his opposition to the Great Reform Act.United Kingdomsource
  • 183719 July – The first missionaries sent abroad by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints land from the United States at Liverpool. On 30 July, apostle Heber C. Kimball baptises the first English converts (George D. Watt and 8 others) in the River Ribble near Preston, Lancashire.United Kingdomsource
  • 1841Chemical Society of London founded by Thomas Graham.United Kingdomsource
  • 184411 December – Health of Towns Association formed to press for public health improvements.United Kingdomsource
  • 18475 March – An explosion at The Oaks in the Barnsley seam in Yorkshire kills 73 men and boys.United Kingdomsource
  • 185230 June – Common Law Procedure Act.United Kingdomsource
  • 185531 July – Limited Liability Act protects investors in the event of corporate collapse.United Kingdomsource
  • 18591 January – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to have her name entered on the General Medical Council's Medical Register, under a clause in the Medical Act 1858 that recognizes doctors with foreign degrees.United Kingdomsource
  • 186216 May – Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.United Kingdomsource
  • 1867Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company formed.United Kingdomsource
  • 18712 April – census in the United Kingdom, the first to record economic and mental status.United Kingdomsource
  • 18756 December – German emigrant ship SS Deutschland (built in Scotland 1866) runs aground on Kentish Knock resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew and inspiring Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland.United Kingdomsource
  • 187914 June – Sidney Faithorn Green, an Anglican priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.United Kingdomsource
  • 188216 February – Trimdon Grange colliery disaster: an underground explosion in the Durham Coalfield kills 69.United Kingdomsource
  • 18875 September – Theatre Royal, Exeter burns down, and 186 people die.United Kingdomsource
  • 189322 June – HMS Victoria, flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, collides with HMS Camperdown and sinks in ten minutes, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon going down with it.United Kingdomsource

20th century

184 entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1900Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers formed by the amalgamation of 24 cement companies.United Kingdomsource
  • 1902Oliver Heaviside proposes existence of the Kennelly–Heaviside layer.United Kingdomsource
  • 190324 March & 3 May – Derby earthquakes.United Kingdomsource
  • 190511 July – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills 120, with just one survivor.United Kingdomsource
  • 190716 November – Passenger liner RMS Mauretania sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.United Kingdomsource
  • 190810 December – the National Farmers' Union is founded.United Kingdomsource
  • 19096 March – Birkenhead dock disaster: a temporary cofferdam collapses during construction of Vittoria Dock, killing 14 navvies.United Kingdomsource
  • 191122 June – Coronation of George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey, London.United Kingdomsource
  • 191214–15 April – the sinking of the Titanic: White Star liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.United Kingdomsource
  • 191430 October – the SS Rohilla, requisitioned as a military hospital ship, is lost by grounding in a storm on rocks off Whitby with the loss of 85 lives.United Kingdomsource
  • 19167 August – August bank holiday abandoned.United Kingdomsource
  • 1917Announced 12 November 1918; presented 1 June 1920 – Charles Glover Barkla wins the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements."United Kingdomsource
  • 19191 October – Women's Royal Naval Service disbanded.United Kingdomsource
  • 192114 January – Unemployment stands at 927,000.United Kingdomsource
  • 192210 December – Francis William Aston wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule".United Kingdomsource
  • 19248 June – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.United Kingdomsource
  • 19251–30 June – The second-driest month in the EWP series (and driest of the twentieth century) with an average rainfall of only 4.3 mm.United Kingdomsource
  • 192822 November – Following passage of the Currency and Banknotes Act on 2 July, the Bank of England resumes responsibility for issue of banknotes from HM Treasury and issues pound and (for the first time) ten shilling notes, the first to be printed in colour and on both sides.United Kingdomsource
  • 193112 June – The Christian Marxist Hewlett Johnson is installed as Dean of Canterbury, being transferred from Manchester.United Kingdomsource
  • 193210 October — a mine cage accident at Bickershaw Colliery in the Lancashire Coalfield drowns 19.United Kingdomsource
  • 193529 June – first portion of Swanscombe skull, belonging to a woman from 400,000 years past, is discovered in north Kent.United Kingdomsource
  • 193930 September – Identity cards introduced.United Kingdomsource
  • 194419 December – Council of Industrial Design established.United Kingdomsource
  • 195117 April – The submarine HMS Affray sinks, killing all 75 crew members.United Kingdomsource
  • 1957Late June – The 1957–1958 influenza pandemic ("Asian flu") which has already killed thousands of people worldwide, reaches Britain where it will kill a number estimated at between 20,000 and 33,000.United Kingdomsource

21st century

5 entries, 2014 CE to 2025 CE

  • 201417 January – Mia Tindall, daughter of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall michal wojnoUnited Kingdomsource
  • 201722 May – Manchester Arena is attacked by a suicide bomber following a music concert by American singer Ariana Grande, resulting in multiple casualties. It is the most deadly attack in the UK since the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the first in the North of England since the IRA bombing of Manchester in June 1996.United Kingdomsource
  • 201717 March – Constitution Hill, National Hunt racehorseUnited Kingdomsource
  • 20253 April – The FTSE 100 falls sharply in response to major, worldwide tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, including a 10% charge on UK imports. The UK government announces it is planning a list of US products it could hit with retaliatory tariffs.United Kingdomsource
  • 202522 January – Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi, daughter of Princess Beatrice of York and Edoardo Mapelli MozziUnited Kingdomsource