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United Kingdom

2,036 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

1,013 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
  • 171114 October – Woodes Rogers returns to England after a successful round-the-world privateering cruise against Spain, carrying loot worth £150,000.United Kingdomsource
  • 1714July – first Roman Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar in Scotland.United Kingdomsource
  • 171717 July – George Frideric Handel's Water Music performed on a barge on the River Thames for King George I.United Kingdomsource
  • 1720September – "South Sea Bubble": share prices, led by those of the South Sea Company, collapse.United Kingdomsource
  • 172420 February – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, is premiered in London.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
  • 173317 May – the Molasses Act becomes law: intended to regulate the colonial molasses trade in favour of the British West Indies, it causes resentment in British North America.United Kingdomsource
  • 173625 March – Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect (born c. 1661)United Kingdomsource
  • 17408 January – Dutch East India Company ship Rooswijk is wrecked on the shoals of Goodwin Sands with the loss of all 237 crew as it begins its second voyage to the Indies.United Kingdomsource
  • 174313 February – Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist (died 1820).United Kingdomsource
  • 174828 March – a fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.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
  • 17588 July – French and Indian War: Battle of Carillon; French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.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
  • 176521 June – the Isle of Man is brought under British control, the Isle of Man Purchase Act (coming into force 10 May) confirming HM Treasury's purchase of the feudal rights of the Dukes of Atholl as Lord of Mann over the island and revesting them into the British Crown.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 May – Parliament passes the Plate Assay (Sheffield and Birmingham) Act 1772 (13 Geo. 3. c. 52) permitting assay offices in Birmingham and Sheffield.United Kingdomsource
  • 177716 August – American Revolution: at the Battle of Bennington British and Brunswicker forces are decisively defeated by American troops.United Kingdomsource
  • 178017 March – American Revolutionary War: the British San Juan Expedition sails from Jamaica under the command of Captains John Polson and Horatio Nelson to attack the Captaincy General of Guatemala (modern-day Nicaragua) in New Spain.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
  • 178722 May – Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.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

833 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
  • 181618 March – Income tax abolished.United Kingdomsource
  • 182131 July – Opening of the Eau Brink Cut, improving the outfall of the River Great Ouse at King's Lynn in Norfolk. Engineers working on the project included John Rennie the Elder, Thomas Telford and Thomas Hyde Page.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
  • 183631 August – Last hanging for arson, Daniel Case at Ilchester.United Kingdomsource
  • 184121 June – St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham is dedicated as a Roman Catholic church.United Kingdomsource
  • 184419 July – Bank Charter Act restricts powers of British banks other than the Bank of England to issue banknotes of the pound sterling.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
  • 1855The London School of Jewish Studies opens as the Jews' College, a rabbinical seminary, in London.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
  • 18716 June – Smith v Hughes, a landmark case in English contract law, is decided in the Court of Queen's Bench, allowing an objective approach to interpretation of the parties' conduct when entering into a contract.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
  • 188228 December – Newlands Mill chimney in Bradford collapses causing the loss of 54 lives, mostly young girls and boys.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

185 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
  • 1902William Bayliss and Ernest Starling make the first discovery of a hormone, secretin.United Kingdomsource
  • 190314 August – first Poor Prisoners' Defence Act provides for limited legal aid in criminal cases with effect from 1904.United Kingdomsource
  • 190513 October – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign.United Kingdomsource
  • 190627 June – Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.United Kingdomsource
  • 190810 December – the National Farmers' Union is founded.United Kingdomsource
  • 1909July – Ivy Evelyn Woodward is admitted as the first woman Member of the Royal College of Physicians.United Kingdomsource
  • 191021 December – The Pretoria Pit disaster: a massive underground explosion in a colliery belonging to the Hulton Colliery Company at Westhoughton in Lancashire, kills 344, with just one survivor, the second-worst mining accident in England and the third-worst in Britain.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
  • 19146 August – Currency and Bank Notes Act gives wartime powers of banknote issue to HM Treasury; the first notes, with the signature of John Bradbury, are issued on 7 August. The sovereign rapidly vanishes from circulation.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 September – Forestry Commission set up.United Kingdomsource
  • 192114 January – Unemployment stands at 927,000.United Kingdomsource
  • 19224 November – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt: English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the Valley of the Kings. On 26 November, Carter and his sponsor Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside the tomb in over 3,000 years.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
  • 19271 March – an underground gas and coal dust explosion at Marine Colliery, Cwm, Monmouthshire, kills 52.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